FOUR-WAY dual-core 64 bit Opteron system....

[Dr Mordrid]

I'm in lust

http://www.digitalvideoediting.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=33905

Dr. Mordrid

[Delany]

That thing is most certainly an evil bit of gear.

I don't think i'd know what to do with half that computing power, let alone the full thing...

[Dr Mordrid]

Give one to a multimedia producer and watch the fur fly

Dr. Mordrid

[Marshmallowman]

It would be nice to have 8 little cpu utilisation graphs in my taskmanger

1000 Watt power supply

[Kooldino]

Badass. My current machine compresses 640x480 DivX movies at aobut 23fps in Virtualdub. Wonder what this thing would finish it in.

[MultimediaMan]

Tyan just announced their 8 way, dual core ready Opteron solution: 16 cores, up to 128B of RAM

Perfect for Freecell.

Seriously, there are few applications that can use so much power: Many of these machines end up using virtual machine to make better use of all the horsepower.

My team's dev box is a four way Hyperthreaded Xeon with 16GB of RAM, and it's fast as stink. I can only imagine Win2K3 64bit with an octet of Opterons will do...

[Nowhere]

Badass. My current machine compresses 640x480 DivX movies at aobut 23fps in Virtualdub. Wonder what this thing would finish it in.

Uhmmm...assuming your CPU has the same performance as one core of this machine...in about the same time?

[spadnos]

Tyan just announced their 8 way, dual core ready Opteron solution: 16 cores, up to 128B of RAM
[snip]

That's nothing - I've got microcontrollers with more RAM than that
- Steve