Cray ’s CX1 supercomputerlooks queerly bantam in itsweird press shot , but we check it out in person today , and it ’s in reality like a small sarcophagus loaded with electronic computer guts instead of actual guts . Unfortunately , it ’s still fairly too soon in the getting - going phase , so they do n’t have a flock of software program running for it , much less anything that ’ll practice your eyeballs like Crysis at 6000FPS — though I remember I convince them that a Crysis test is absolutely critical .
The “ cool hooey ” will take about three weeks to get up and running , with the more ocular demonstration come at the tail - end of that . The one benchmark they presently have is that it hits 768 Gigaflops , which they hope to chance over 800 with some fine - tuning . move from Nvidia ’s Quadro 4600 to their new Tesla cards should give the system a shock as well , since they ’re explicitly designed for parallel computation applications , like what the CX1 is design for . The CX1 can harbour up to eight computer science blades — though the store and visual blade each take up two slots , so the model they were showing had four computation blades , and one of each . While each blade is extremely customizable , the punk one they had configured was about $ 4,000 , and a amply spec’d out CX1 pass for about $ 85,000 ( more or less higher than they primitively announced ) . While it ’s not actually design for gambling at all , for that much I ’d desire it to burn down Crysis directly into my mastermind . [ Cray ]
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