Submission + - Sun eyes supercomputing glory (com.com)
xk0der writes: "Sun Microsystems on Monday revealed the Constellation System, a high-performance computing platform that company executives claim will vault the company back into the top ranks of supercomputer manufacturers.
Sun says it can get 6 teraflops, or 6 trillion operations, a second out of a single rack because each rack holds 768 cores. At right, it's the monster of all switches. This hardware has 3,456 ports on it.
xk0der: With this development in place, will the glory days of Sun shining bright be back? That is yet to be seen!"
Sun says it can get 6 teraflops, or 6 trillion operations, a second out of a single rack because each rack holds 768 cores. At right, it's the monster of all switches. This hardware has 3,456 ports on it.
xk0der: With this development in place, will the glory days of Sun shining bright be back? That is yet to be seen!"
