[closeparen]

Isn't the idea that a single process can address all 160TB of memory as if it were local?

Of course you can cobble together that much memory when you're programming a distributed system of communicating processes. The interesting part would be programming it as if for one computer.

[eveningcoffee]

As far I understand, this memory would be not local to any of the processors - all of them access it through shared bus (fabric as they call it) and it appears to be handled rather as a weird (their words) disk device than as a memory.

I did not find information about the bandwidth or latency of such architecture.

[rwmj]

Distributed shared memory on commodity hardware/networks is a long solved problem. I was using TreadMarks back in 1994. Making it perform well, on the other hand, is a real challenge.