RSS feed“Now, That’s What I Call a Table!” (Part II)
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| Checking 112 Mac Minis, Berlin, August '06. |
Head programmer of the dropping knowledge portal and global dialog forum (and the son of DFKI Scientific Director, Professor Hans Uskoreit), Jakob can be said to know a thing or two about hi-tech. The way he describes it, the outsized Table sounds like nothing less than a tech-head’s dream-device…
“In terms of computing power, the Table delivers a peak performance of around 230 GFLOPS, which means that it can calculate 230,000,000,000 floating point operations per second.
“Packed with technology, the table features 112 Mini-DV Cameras, 112 Mac Minis with 224 Intel Core CPU cores running at 1.66 GHz, more than 36 terabytes of storage space spread over 224 individual hard drives and miles of cabling…“While in recording mode, the table records 112 DV audio-video streams with a total bandwidth of over 3.8 Gigabits per second and performs a real-time h.264 compression on all 112 video streams.“By the evening of September 9th, the Table will have recorded, compressed and stored almost 700 hours of video footage, as both high-quality material and in compressed, ready for streaming formats.”
Put that in your i-pipe and smoke it! Seriously now, that’s one smart Table…