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September 28, 2005
Big Iron, Big NT
So you learn something every day.
This week, I'm playing with the biggest hardware I've ever worked on. I've been on an SP-2 before and I've worked on an E-10000. I've even had a fractional Regatta. But the new heavyweight champion in my little world is an HP Superdome with 16 Itaniums. The damned thing is running NT.
But this is no ordinary NT, it's the 64 bit Datacenter Edition, something my many customers have avoided with one notable exception. That was the guys at Waste Management in Houston, who for various reasons were given to continual scoffing.
Today, I'm about to see how monster this baby can go, as I'm heading up a performance benchmark team. Should be interesting, especially if we decide to bump it up to 64 processors. Yow!.
Posted by mbowen at September 28, 2005 08:00 AM
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It ain't big iron, but my new mac G4 powerbook sure is one sweet machine. and the itunes visualizer has me up way beyond my normal bedtime looking at tunes. this is the most exciting machine i've had since my first mac back in 84.
Posted by: bill benzon at September 28, 2005 03:58 PM
Wow! Speaking of cutting edge hardware have you seen anything like this Atom Chip laptop yet, Cobb?
Posted by: matt at September 30, 2005 07:39 AM
Smells phony.
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at September 30, 2005 07:51 AM
could be
Posted by: matt at October 1, 2005 12:09 AM