[geeks] the biggest, baddest workstation...

[nate at portents.com]

> In short, the only interesting thing about the box is the cray name and
> the active noise cancelling system (which is only an option anyway).

Agreed.  I'd think someone in the market for that would be better off with
something like one of these VX50 systems (32 cores connected by
HyperTransport, 128GB of RAM, $18k):

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=280344202115

And it looks like you'll probably be able to upgrade that with AMD's
Istanbul CPUs later this year.

- Nate