Baker is what they call this big-daddy super computer from Cray, which has approximately 24,000 2.6 GHz quad-core AMD Opteron processors and is to be comissioned in the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Though the system is still in early stages of development, it's expected to have either 187 or 400 TB of memory and one to 11 Petabytes of storage and have a speed of more 1 Petaflops, which is equivalent to quadrillion floating-point operations a second.
That's some heavy numbers, ain't it? We wonder how much it's going to cost... maybe we should pick one too, after we sell our oil-wells i.e. ;)
