New top secret computer design unveiled

Armari XCP.




Video footage:
http://www.hexus.tv/show/2008/03/Armari_XCP_eXtreme_Concept_Prototype_Supercomputer_inspired_Uber_PC/

The above is a result of two years of research and development. The goal was simple: to build a computer that would offer the best performance, not staying away from exotic cooling technologies like liquid nitrogen, liquid fluorocarbon immersion, TEC, and phase-change. Unlike most benchmarking machines however, this one was designed to run 24/7.

Once the XCP goes into production, a liquid-cooled model, with appropriately extravagant hardware, should cost in the region of £10,000. The computer will be available in limited numbers


Sort of like cross between a Dyson pull-along vacuum cleaner and a fish tank.

bit silly laddie, you could just hook 3 PCs together and use render-farm type software

looks a lot like my rice cooker.

lol

I have a rice cooker. Well, its a pan with some water in it.

it looks like my humidifier:)

It looks like a sci-fi coffin..

So PS3 is only the second ugliest design for gaming hardware now anymore ... sad sad sony ... because this ugly want to be futuristic fish tank definitely deserves the first place.

I think it sort of looks like the Andrex puppy - more so the top picture.

Looks like a portable toilet.

Needless to say I don't like the design that much. Why couldn't they just make is square? Because I like the way the cooling is designed.

Makes me wonder if we'll ever move away from the typical PC tower layout............probably not. <.<

Hopefully not. PC towers at least can be stacked and put into 90 degree corners ... stuff thats not possible with XBox360, PS3 and the like "innovative" designs.
What might happen to the pc tower design thought is that it hopefully becomes slim ... the current systems tend to get larger and burn more energy just for some pointless eye candy ...
if the mobile gpu slot standard would have happened, then desktop pcs might potentially be in a far worse position now but as most notebooks aren't upgradable, higher end users don't see them as an alternative.

yeh the human brain runs the best programs, with some kind of conscience and humane behaviour (most of the time)

Yeah, it would be nice for PCs to be slimmer, and a new card size come out to replace current ones. As for the computer design in question, I have to agree with Jeremy - a render farm would probably be more efficient and could fit the job to a budget. All we really need anymore is better code-wise support for parrallel processing. I don't know much about multithreading, but from what I learned about Java's methods, it just doesn't seem that reasonable.