Just try to do tape backups on this........

[opiesilver]

10,240 Processor SGI® Altix® to Serve as Foundation for Groundbreaking Supercomputing Center at NASA Ames.

NASA has chosen SGI Altix as the foundation of 'Project Columbia,' an extensive collaboration with SGI and Intel Corporation that is expected to fuel scientific breakthroughs in space exploration, global warming research, and aerospace engineering. With Project Columbia, NASA plans to integrate a total of twenty 512-processor SGI Altix systems with a 500-terabyte SGI® InfiniteStorage solution to create the Space Exploration Simulator, which will be among the world's largest Linux® OS-based supercomputers. Powered by a total of 10,240 Intel® Itanium® 2 processors, the Space Exploration Simulator will equip NASA scientists with one of the most sophisticated and capable supercomputers in history.

[Morpheus]

So do you get to work on that?

[ZWarrior]

more importantly...

Can WE game on it?!?  :hotbouns:

[opiesilver]

I wish, on both accounts.

[JollyRoger]

do you at least get to see it maybe even be in the same room with it?

[opiesilver]

If I were to go to Maryland I could, but I'm just a tad far away from it.