Orion 96 CPU desktop workstation.....

[Dr Mordrid]

Orion's DS-96 deskside Cluster Workstation has 96 nodes with 300 gigaflops (Gflops) peak performance (150 Gflops sustained), up to 192 gigabytes of memory and up to 9.6 terabytes of storage. It consumes less than 1500 watts and fits unobtrusively under a desk.

http://arstechnica.com/news/posts/20040830-4142.html



Maybe I can talk Ulead into porting MSPro 8 to the Orion?

Dr. Mordrid

[Ribbit]

With AMD's (and Intel's?) dual-core processors coming, I think the 12-processor version will turn out to be stillborn. Transmeta chips aren't exactly renowned (or designed) for speed, and an n-core multiprocessor will have much better inter-"node" communication.

But to put 96 processors under my desk? Man, I wish I had a use for that... :drool:

[Chrono_Wanderer]

that's the minimum requirements for longhorn....

[Jammrock]

lol... Bill said they're scaling down Longhorn so the minimum system requirements is only 4 CPUs.

Jammrock

[Chrono_Wanderer]

Off topic:

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1641491,00.asp

Looks like Microsoft is dropping WinFS

[schmosef]

It's just like what happened to the Cairo tech. Cairo got re-purposed as a suite of technologies under development for eventual implementation instead of being Windows 2000, as it was originally described. I'm not too surprised.

[Rakido]

and here's the low-budget version for the small wallet:

Orion DT-12
The Orion DT-12 desktop cluster workstation is the highest performance general-purpose desktop computer available today.

It has 12 nodes, 36 Gflops peak processing performance (18 gigaflops sustained*), 24 gigabytes of DDR SDRAM memory, and 1 terabyte of internal disk storage. It plugs into a standard 15A wall-socket, consumes a peak of 220 watts, and is about the same size as a PC.

http://www.orionmulti.com/products/?...466e0e3f0b4328

[ZokesPro]

Originally posted by Chrono_Wanderer
that's the minimum requirements for longhorn....

lol

[Ribbit]

Originally posted by Rakido
and here's the low-budget version for the small wallet:

As I said above, I expect this one to be overtaken by SMP dual-core systems in short order.

[Technoid]

Originally posted by Chrono_Wanderer
Off topic:

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1641491,00.asp

Looks like Microsoft is dropping WinFS

no wonder that they did that, it would have meant that no old software would have run at all

[Tjalfe]

Originally posted by Technoid
no wonder that they did that, it would have meant that no old software would have run at all

old software still runs on NTFS, I am sure they would make it possible on WinFS

[Technoid]

Originally posted by tjalfe
old software still runs on NTFS, I am sure they would make it possible on WinFS

First of all, MS themself said that it would break 100% of old software because WinFS was totally diffrent from fat/fat32, ntfs etc etc.

there would have been no files or folders in winfs,only database entries

[spadnos]

Originally posted by Ribbit
As I said above, I expect this one to be overtaken by SMP dual-core systems in short order.

The power usage is pretty amazing.

The opterons take between 65W and 90W per CPU, and that's for single core. For the same power, you could only run a dual processor system, and only single if the dual-core processors use appreciably more power than the single-core CPUs.

Actually, (if they're not full of crap) the sustained performance of 18 GFlops / 220 W is damned amazing - 12W / GFlop.

Holy cow.

(think back to the days of the Cray X-MP - 1 GFlop in only 12KW )

- Steve

[Wombat]

Originally posted by Ribbit
With AMD's (and Intel's?) dual-core processors coming, I think the 12-processor version will turn out to be stillborn. Transmeta chips aren't exactly renowned (or designed) for speed, and an n-core multiprocessor will have much better inter-"node" communication.

But to put 96 processors under my desk? Man, I wish I had a use for that... :drool:

Gotta disagree with you there. Transmeta has some interesting rackmount and beowulf setups thanks to the great processing/wattage ratio.

[Liquid Snake]

http://www.orionmulti.com/news/pr_083020042

I see on this page that the 96-node version consumes 1500 Watts. I wonder what kind of cooling system it has if it can cool all of that in an "unobstrusive box under a desk."