Close on the heels of the announcement of Cray Inc’s first ever Windows based Supercomputer -- the CX1, my colleague at Techtree had reported its launch. Fellow geeks at Gizmodo recently had an opportunity to “check out” the Cray. Although they would have loved to play Crysis on it at 6000FPS, the lackluster availability of software for this mammoth of a computing machine prevented them from doing so!
The only benchmark that was available for the device was its speed (measured in Gigaflops). The specimen they tested easily attained 768 Gigaflops – which could well pass the 800 Gigaflop mark post some fine-tuning.
The CX -1 runs Windows HPC Server 2008 OS. Windows HPC Server 2008, the successor to Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003, is based on Windows Server 2008 and is designed to "Improve productivity of systems administration and cluster interoperability” in a high performance computing environment. With Intel Xeon processors doing the number crunching, this is the first time that the deadly duo makes their foray into the “supercomputer” segment. For specs, cost and details, that Techtree article should suffice..
To spice up things, we actually tried to configure a CX1 online and got our very on “hands on” to check what buying a supercomputer actually feels like. Here is a screen shot – and yes, the cost is in Indian Rupees. Our say? We would rather buy a house.
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