The new computer, to be built by Sun Microsystems Inc. using 13,000
microprocessors made by Advanced Micro Devices Inc., will be more
powerful than any supercomputer currently in operation, UT says.
It will have a peak computing power of more than 400 trillion
operations per second, which makes it more than 40 percent faster than
the current supercomputing speed champ, Blue Gene/L, developed by IBM
Corp. for the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California.
On Fri, 29 Sep 2006 15:22:41 -0500, .Some.Guy. <power-grab@user.com>
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The new computer, to be built by Sun Microsystems Inc. using 13,000microprocessors made by Advanced Micro Devices Inc., will be morepowerful than any supercomputer currently in operation, UT says.It will have a peak computing power of more than 400 trillionoperations per second, which makes it more than 40 percent faster thanthe current supercomputing speed champ, Blue Gene/L, developed by IBMCorp. for the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California.http://www.statesman.com/business/c...29computer.html
....which will result in a nice uptick in overall Opteron sales. Hmm,
what kind of frame rate this thing will reach in [your favorite game
here]? ;-)
The new computer, to be built by Sun Microsystems Inc. using 13,000 microprocessors made by Advanced Micro Devices Inc., will be more powerful than any supercomputer currently in operation, UT says. It will have a peak computing power of more than 400 trillion operations per second, which makes it more than 40 percent faster than the current supercomputing speed champ, Blue Gene/L, developed by IBM Corp. for the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California. http://www.statesman.com/business/c...29computer.html
It seems so simple to put together a supercomputer these days. Just put
tons and tons of processors on. 10 000 here, 12 000 there, 13 000 here,
15 000 there, etc.
Sources tell me that the system will be using Opteron powered Sun blades
using Thumper disk systems. The blades are quad socket and will start
off dual core, but can migrate to quad core.
It seems so simple to put together a supercomputer these days. Just put tons and tons of processors on. 10 000 here, 12 000 there, 13 000 here, 15 000 there, etc. Yousuf Khan
once you get over about 1000 CPUs,
you also keep adding air conditioners to keep the build cool.....
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Another AMD supercomputer, 13,000 quad-core
Linear Mode
