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I saw they struck a deal with Intel last year and thought the dumped AMD, but they may a whole line of baby super computers check them out
http://www.cray.com/Products/CX/Systems.aspx

Starting from $38,999... ouch!

It must have some serious cooling in it. It would take some serious work (read profitable) to justify such a purchase!

geek pron at its best

Ugly chassis though, looks a steel brick. Some neon and a funky laser logo on the side would have been better.

Adam A. Wanderer wrote:

k1wi wrote:Starting from $38,999... ouch!

It must have some serious cooling in it. It would take some serious work (read profitable) to justify such a purchase!

If I ever won the lottery, that'd be high on my list! I wonder how many work units/point per day it could turn out with the present client programs.

The system is cluster not a single workstation, so FAH won't run in this hardware.

ParrLeyne wrote:

Adam A. Wanderer wrote:

k1wi wrote:Starting from $38,999... ouch!

It must have some serious cooling in it. It would take some serious work (read profitable) to justify such a purchase!

If I ever won the lottery, that'd be high on my list! I wonder how many work units/point per day it could turn out with the present client programs.

The system is cluster not a single workstation, so FAH won't run in this hardware.

In fact if you look at the YouTube "How to build a personal Cray CX1 supercomputer" video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BL3dNpwvYj4&NR=1 you will see that the system ships on a pallette and is a blade chassis on a rolling frame -- the system can weigh up to 136lbs/62kg (minimum weight = 62 lbs/28kg)

"Best of all" it ships with Windows 2008 HPC, not linux

Very hard to understand what it really is? It looks like proprietary blade system for dual-Xenon and GPU custom blades?