But, will it run Doom 3?

Teraflops

BTW, thats a very cool sounding comp term :wink:

yes it might be 58 teraflops where the Earth Simulator is only 35 (40 as i recall, but i'll go with what they say) ... but it has the inherent problem that it is a modular system - the Earth Simulator uses "1" processor . . . I have an article all about it somewhere ... anyway the point is: say you made one of those "rack stacks", but made it only 35 teraflops ... the Earth simulator would outperform it easily . I might get off my ass and find that article :smile:

ps. how are you going to fit 1000 racks into your special doom3 room? (hey, if youve got that much money to spend, you will have a separate doom3 room :razz: )

The caldera / ibm super computer had a rumor to be 110 teraflops. its something like 280 amds, and 60 intels, if I remember.

Hmm, in our last lecture for 3D Content Creation we talked about the SGI(Silicon Graphics) workstations and older PC's. The SGI system had 10 2GHz processors, 1 TB of RAM and a minor video card. A P4 1.2 GHz processor with 256 RAM and a GeForce 2 GTS ran 3D Polygonal graphics better than the SGI workstation and it was 1/10 the price... Just something interesting.

"minor graphics card" ... lol maybe that's the reason for lack of performance, as well as probably have poor connectivity between the separate cpu's