“Silicon Graphics (SGI) will start showing off the Altix 4000
Monday, the second generation of the company’s technical computing
machines based on Itanium processors that run on Linux.“The high-performance systems will accommodate as many as 512
processors, as does the current Altix 3000, said Jill Matzke, SGI’s
head of Altix product marketing. But a new design lets it
accommodate as much as 128TB of memory, larger than the 24TB limit
of the Altix 3000 and about 250,000 times as much memory as is
found in a mainstream PC…”
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