SGI Octane III Personal Supercomputer Released Octane III 20x Intel Xeon 5500 CPU Powerhouse Boasts Extreme Performance, Considerable Price Tag

When it comes to PCs there s always an underlying mine s better than
yours battle going on and, yes, your high performance gaming rig
(assuming you have one) may well be the talk of all your friends but, in
terms of sheer, unadulterated power, you ll doubtless be feeling
somewhat less coy with the news that SGI have now released their Octane
III Personal Supercomputer which comes with a number of options
including packing in up to 19 Atom single socket CPUs or, for the
ultimate in power, 20 Intel Xeon Processor Quad-Core processors.
Of course, the SGI Octane III Personal Supercomputer is far removed from
that of a gaming rig as the Octane III is intended for strategic
science, research, development and visualization applications and,
thanks to the processor options available, as you d expect, it costs,
and costs dearly (we ll hold back regarding just how much till later).

Coming in a one-by-two-foot form factor, the SGI Octane III is available
in three distinct configurations offering a maximum of 80
high-performance cores paired with 760GB 1333/1066/800 MHz DDR3 RAM
powered by up to four 1000W modules " which leads us to suspect that
SGI will hardly be touting the Octane III s eco-friendliness during any
sale patter. The specific options available are (incidentally, if you
want more detail, see the spec sheet included below):

Ten dual-socket, Quad-Core Intel Xeon processor 5500 series-based nodes
One dual-socket, Quad-Core Intel Xeon processor 5500 series-based
workstation with advanced NVIDIA graphics and/or GP-GPU card support
Nineteen single-socket, Quad-Core Intel Xeon processor 3400 series-based
nodes
Nineteen single-socket, Dual-Core Intel Atom processor-based nodes
Octane III makes supercomputing personal again, said Mark J.
Barrenechea, president and CEO of SGI. Who introduced the Octane III.
Our customers have been asking for office environment products with
large core counts that are easy to use and whisper-quiet. Octane III
brings all of this to the HPC professional, and enables a new era of
personal innovation in strategic science, research, development and
visualization.

Shipping as a factory-tested, pre-integrated platform with broad HPC
application support that s powerful enough for the most complex
applications in the world , the SGI Octane III Personal Supercomputer
which will happily engage in fluid dynamics, quantum mechanics,
molecular dynamics, seismic processing, data analytics, rendering,
visualization and computer-aided design quite possibly with a somewhat
nonchalant shrug starts at around $8,000 but, if you ant to max it out
(and we don t doubt you do) you ll need to have significantly more
exposable income going spare " though, understandably, SGI aren t
actually offering an insight as to how much the top of the range Octane
III will cost you.