A computer with 400 TERABYTES of Memory!
The Energy Department's Oak Ridge National Laboratory will welcome a new member in its family called 'Baker'. No, it's not what you're thinking, it's the world's fastest computer created by Cary Inc. Seattle and is most probably will be operational by 2008.
Baker is powered by around 24,000 2.6 Ghz quad-core Opteron processors made by Advanced Micro Devices Inc. To turn down the heat produced by this massive cluster of processors the system uses 187 liquid-cooled cabinets. The maximum working memory of the system will go as far as 400 terabytes with a whopping one to 11 petabytes of storage.
This configuration is enough to roust all other super computers operational right now, such as Blue Gene/L, run by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and in fact is the first to break the 1 petaflop limit. 'A PFLOP is 1 quadrllion floating-point operations per second.'
