Patriot is showcasing the "world's fastest PC" at CeBIT 2010.
Reporting from CeBIT 2010, TechPowerUp has set its eyes on the fastest PC in the world, at least in the storage department.
The PC's configuration is also pretty beefy:
- (5) LSI Mega RAID SAS/SATA 9260-8i raid cards
- (2) 1000W Thermaltake TRX-1000M power supplies
- (1) Thermaltake case
- (1) Super Micro X8DTH-I X58 Server motherboard
- (2) Intel Xeon 5550 CPUs
- 48GB 1333MHz of Patriot DDR3 ECC-Registered memory (12) PS34G13ER-E
The storage system of the computer though,--where the true performance lies--speaks for itself.
A sustained rate of 155,000 IOPS/s is generated by using forty 256GB TorqX SSDs connected to five LSI SAS PCI-E controllers. According to the TechPowerUP article, the system supposedly is able to "rip an entire Blu-ray in 0.9 seconds." Clearly, this is impossible as no optical drive can manage that. What more likely happened was that a reporter misquoted Patriot.
The system is capable of making a duplicate copy of a "Blu-ray rip" on the 40-drive SSD array in a blistering fast 0.9 seconds. That's at least an 8GB file copy in under a second. We don't know about you but, load times be-gone!
Currently there's no indication on when this insane beast will be unleashed.
