It's Hammer Time

We got a new machine to build meshes on, and it is hot. It's got four 1.6 GHz Opterons, which are faster than just about anything in the building. It actually arrived about nine months ago, but came with only 1 GB of memory and an 18 GB disk, which made it pretty much worthless. I've been pointing out for months how useful this thing could be if we just upgraded it, but what finally tipped the scales was the Number One Client saying that he wants us to double the size of the models we're building for him. So management finally plunked down a credit card and bought a 74 GB disk and 16 GB(!) of RAM. We've been pushing it hard this week, and it hasn't blinked once. We finally have a machine which can do big models quickly.

Damn near had an orgasm when the thing trimmed a ten million cell mesh in only four hours. And that was only using one CPU. It's twice as fast as our big Sun or the Itanium.