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To: Don Green who wrote (10647)11/21/2002 12:09:46 PM
From: Thomas A Watson   of 14451
 
On Monday I attended the Supercomputer Conf in Baltimore.
I saw the 3900 and took several pics. The 3900 is an amazing machine. The compute density is WOW. The simplicity of interconnect is elegant.
I took several pics
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128 CPU's in a single rack. An additional 1/2 rack of support equipment.
16 CPU...
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Inside box....
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The question is, How large is the market of applications the really need this scalable dense computing.

I saw the 64 CPU Itanium in a rack. Damn, I did not take pictures....

But some cool visualizations....
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