Monday, April 03, 2006

A computer with 400 TERABYTES of Memory! (2008)

Cray Inc. is building a supercomputer that consists of 24,000 2.6 Ghz quad-core Opteron (AMD) processors. This will be the first computer ever to hit ONE PFLOP - 1 quadrillion operations/second. The human brain is capable of about 10. It will use up to 400TB of memory and 11PB of storage. The computer will require 170 MEGAWATTS of power!

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