Comments on: Cray Offers A Desktop?

By: trowand

trowand — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 00:40:11 +0000

Of course, the software would have to be extremely multi-threaded to use all of those cores, right?

By: Alan David

Alan David — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 02:46:31 +0000

Hmmm…I was referencing a memo that was circulating around the department – someone got something very wrong. That was the sticking point to the department not upgrading a few workstations for HDV for the local PBS affiliate and the editing labs.

My bad.

By: Rich Menga

Rich Menga — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 13:48:04 +0000

I don’t know where you’re looking but putting in 8 cores with 2 Zeon quad-core procs doesn’t go anywhere near 70k on a Cray.

http://img220.imageshack.us/my.php?image=craycx1configurator1221kv3.png

By: Alan David

Alan David — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 13:35:05 +0000

Just to clarify – $25,000 get’s you the box and a single CPU (two cores). If you want to build a ’super computer’ – then at least according to their website – you’ll be spending over $70,000 for 8 cores (two Zeon quad core CPUs). I just built a Zeon-based dual quad core video editing workstation (yes, 8 cores) and spent under $7,000.