Quote: The project has been dubbed "Hyperion".

No doubt in tribute to the late 70's/early 80s "Ajile Hyperion" Home Computer. Was that French?

Anyone else remember those?

Mine's the anorak.

Love it. Although google thinks I meant "pentapenguin". And gives me a result about a penguin on crack.

Nice one! Paris because she knows what to do with ... oh never mind

Looks like their RAID array is going to reach around 14 kilowrist bandwidth, that is impressive!

Thanks, the one with the extensive speciality DVD list in the pocket...

I think this is the computer you allude to, the Dynalogic Hyperion

http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=339

But will it run Tetris?

Mark Seagar is quite well-known at Livermore for coming up with outrageous ideas and having no clue at all how to make them work. Looking at the specs of this cluster it's pretty clear it's a hodge-podge of "cool ideas" just thrown into a blender and set to puree.

I pity the BOFH's there that will have to suffer another series of long weeks with little sleep trying to make this abomination work while Mark hovers nearby in Seagull Manager mode.

But can it run Vista?

see not a game, but crap still ;)

Hopefully Blizzard will license this technology and thus resolve the queue problems ...

It still wont run Supreme commander

What's quickly adding up to pocket change[1] when detonating a bomb would be all-but-free? Not to mention the latter would send a message. To who, I don't know. The content, I don't know. I just like sending messages and blowing things up(and powerful computers).

[1]Remember, we're talking government here.

Yep. That's the one. Marketed in Europe as "Ajile Hyperion", by a German.

But will it run Aero?

:-O