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COLONY is a supercomputer cluster run by CSE. COLONY is the largest computer ever built by [wikipedia]Sun. It will help professor Jim Crutchfield study [wikipedia]Cellular automata. It has 14 motherboards, and each motherboard has 64 chips. Each chip contains 64 32-bit processors, for a total of 57,344 processors. Wowzers!

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[WWW]Sun's press release


It is kind of funny that it has 14*64*64 processors, not 16*64*64... —DanielBrown


True, but it's built on a Sun Ultra Enterprise 10k chassis, which has 14 motherboards. I believe there are actually 2 of these available, only one is currently had room, power, and network available at the moment.—BillBroadley

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