UnixWars » Sun Fire http://unixwars.com Taher Shihadeh's ragbag Mon, 26 Dec 2011 23:38:31 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Our first supercomputer at work http://unixwars.com/2008/10/07/our-first-super-computer-at-work/ http://unixwars.com/2008/10/07/our-first-super-computer-at-work/#comments Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:51:15 +0000 Taher Shihadeh http://unixwars.com/?p=151 Today is one of those nice days you stumble upon every now and then. Being a geek, you simply have to be happy when a processing monster like this arrives to your workplace.

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Yep. It is! Octality‘s first and very own Sun Fire 12000. Yes, I know it was recently retired by Sun, but still 52 processors and 288GB of RAM make a hell of machine to test things on. The photograph was taken this morning at the storage room.

Being dedicated to High Performance does have its benefits, don’t you think? It’s deffinitely getting interesting around here. I bet not many start ups get this kind of hardware after just a few months of existence.

By the way, this fella isn’t precisely small. It is 191x85x166 cm and weights 987kg.

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