Grim... wrote:
I'd imagine it has lots and lots of little ones, rather than a couple of big ones.
You'd be wrong, it's actually two of
these at 160Gb each in a RAID-0. They're not even particularly expensive, when you consider that they would be replacing a 100-disk SAN array that consumes something like 60U of space [1].
Also: LOOK AT MAH COREZ! Fuck yeah
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Grim... wrote:
ApplePieOfDestiny wrote:
It still won't run Fallout 3 on HQ graphics.
I'd imagine you're quite right.
Indeed, it has no GPU, just some sort of onboard graphics. Although if the Direct3D software render would parallelise over that many cores (and assuming Fallout would install on Windows Server 2k8 Enterprise) it'd probably have a decent go of it provided I didn't mind standing in a data centre in London's Docklands to play it (or running it over RDP).
The server itself, incidentally, is an
R910. It's only 4U!
[1] if that sounds high, it's because our datacentre is an old telecoms one with quite restrictive power and cooling requirements. We often have to leave slots empty because we've topped out the supply for a given rack. And that 60U includes redundant controllers and the fibre channel switches.