(from The Inquirer via Boing Boing)

SGI – Press Releases: SGI Unveils Octane III Personal Supercomputer.

An $8000 box that exceeds the Crays, Big Blues, and all the other super iron of my misspent youth. Up to 80 cores, up to 1 terabyte of memory, this is the kind of hacking tool angels and miscreants dream about. The weather systems to model, passwords to crack (um, check for strength and advise owners of weaknesses), the stocks and bond prices to analyze, and network simulations to run. To say nothing of the rendering, shading, and world building this sucker could do.

Wow, we are past the edge and well into the world of Something Big.