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sgi octane iii personal supercomputer: my pc’s faster than your pc.

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SGI’s new Octane III workstation takes the speed and performance that you’d usually find in a rack full of machines and puts it alongside your desk.

By leveraging modern miniaturization, the Octane III can handle up to 80 CPU cores, yes that’s EIGHT-ZERO CPU cores, along with up to 1TB, yes that’s ONE TERABYTE of…

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September 21st, 2009 comments (5) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

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mac pro 8-core monster officially revealed

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Apple today revealed new Mac Pro workstation models which features up to a whopping EIGHT CPU cores.

Fully maxed out, the systems can have two Quad-Core Intel Xeon 3.0GHz processors, up to 3TB of hard disk storage and up to 16 GB of RAM. Designed with graphics, video and multimedia professionals in mind, the new…

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April 4th, 2007 comments (1) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

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