Cray is a supercomputer company that makes computer boxes that, simply put, have absolutely staggering computational power. Interesting trivia: It was boxes made by Cray that rendered movies like Tron (yes, that long ago). Back then a Cray looked like this.

If you’ve got 25 grand you don’t mind parting with that would put 768 gigaflops in your house, you can buy a Cray CX1, pictured right. Bear in mind 25k is the starting price of this box. Eight nodes with 16 Intel Xeon processors on board. Yes, you read right, 16 processors.

So if you thought the 8-core Mac Pro had some decent power under the hood.. well.. um.. no. Not compared to this "baby" cray it doesn’t.

The OS choices are Windows HPC Server 2008 or Linux.

[Source: Computerworld]