[Tfug] Whats the biggest, most powerful/expensive system you have under your care?

[Robert Hunter]

> Well, for a while, not too long ago, I had root/administrator privileges
> while our contracting company was installing some geo-spatial software
> for a special DOD/Ministry of Homeland Security project here in SE
> Arizona.
>
> The system was a cluster of 6-8 Sunfire EK25K Servers maxed out to
> approximately 570 total processors with about 6-8 TB of main memory
> running Sol 10!.
>
> I wasn't told how much storage was, but suffice to say it was 10's of
> Terabytes (probably over 100)and was being upgraded to include more.
> The tape backup library was the largest I've ever seen.
>
> The system, I was told, was valued at around 45 million!!!!
>
> These systems were killer! (literally! One fell of a loading dock in
> Maryland and crushed some unlucky soul)
>
> It not only had Bowie's info, but I made a point to flag it :-)
>
> P.S> I was told there were even larger systems in the works in the area.
>
> Be afraid, be really afraid!!!
>
>
> Cheers
>
> Tom P.

That's close to 16 GiB of memory per processor.  With that many processors, I bet it's a number cruncher. :-)

-- 
Rob