But what's it Crysis frame-rate like
that' the important question
Southampton Uni is getting an IBM Nehalem-based supercomputer. It's a iDataplex-based system, the first one in the UK public sector, built by UK firm OCF. The university says its 8,000 cores will enable it to run at around 74 trillion calculations (74 teraflops) a second, placing the system amongst the top 100 supercomputers …
Perhaps they could set up some kind of social enterprise to rent out some spare computing time for the local population, as part of a local Digital Britain initiative.
E.g.
- for local film makers and animators to do rendering and effects quicker than their desktop
- real-time analysis of local data mining to produce some useful mashup applications - any ideas?
- local chess and other game competitions versus the computer
The university and its students could always do more to work with the local community for mutual benefit.
Who knows how this could enhance the local digital media/technology economy?
Ha, you are kidding right? By the time this goes live I would predict that the queue of people wanting to use it from within the University will already be too long, without going round the local community asking if any crackpot wants to play on their nice new HPC system...