News - "Flash" Gordon set to be first SSD-based supercomputer

[HEXUS]

Capable of downloading 220 HD movies per second, Gordon gets switched on in January.

Read more.

[Smudger]

It must annoy all the movie studios that amount of films is the benchmark for download speeds...

[Hoonigan]

But can it run Crysis?

[brasco]

Crazy numbers there, 64TB RAM! Do want

It must annoy all the movie studios that amount of films is the benchmark for download speeds...

Itunes, netflix, lovefilm et al? Downloading doesn't mean naughty!

brasc

[kalniel]

Please tell me that when they switch it on, someone is going to yell:

"Gordon's Alive!!"

[crossy]

300TB of Flash/SSD? Oooo, I can think of a few CAE folks who'd kill to get their hands on that baby! Wonder if it's arranged as some kind of RAID (5?) array or as JBOD.

Based on the 1950s television series “Flash Gordon,” the supercomputer was funded by the National Science Foundation and has cost $20 million and five years of work to complete. Gordon is set to be unveiled in full in early January.

You mean it wasn't named after the Holly's chess partner in the Scott Fitzgerald?
(Red Dwarf, if anyone's unclear as to what I'm getting at)

(Wish that Intel advert at the bottom of the page was a little less intrusive though)

[vrykyl]

I wonder what sort of SSD's are in there - fusion IO perhaps?

[aidanjt]

Itunes, netflix, lovefilm et al? Downloading doesn't mean naughty!

It does to big content, all downloading is evil and threatens their 20th century business models they love so dearly.

[semo]

I wonder what sort of SSD's are in there - fusion IO perhaps?

I would place a bet on STEC.

BTW, why would it take 5 years to build? Lack of funds? Construction/infrastructure delays?

[b0redom]

Only $20M, that seems pretty cheap for something so powerful.

[watercooled]

Surely film download capability would depend on the Internet connection, rather than storage IO speed?

[Hoonigan]

Surely film download capability would depend on the Internet connection, rather than storage IO speed?

I wish my internet was limited by my IO speed! 500mb/s would be nice