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- Smokezz, on 10/12/2007, -6/+25You're both idiots. This isn't about an OS.
- Smokezz, on 10/12/2007, -3/+17Stick enough processors in there, and you can overcome any limitation heh
- crilen007, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16I'd say you were.
- robbh66, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13"I bet playing Oblivion on any of those computers would be pretty cool."
It would suck, and that's if they could even get it to run. - jer2eydevil88, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12I think its interesting that two machines only had 80 processors while the others are mostly in the thousands... That just screams innovation and from Hitachi of all places..
- bshniper, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Did you try Target?
- malkir, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9I was always under the impression that Xeons sucked because of their ***** FSB issues. Guess I may have been wrong.
- ek3s, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10Hack the Gibson.
- Matteos, on 10/12/2007, -6/+13I wonder if the guys using those Dells on the list have used up their 6 months of free AOL yet?
- ploop, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Go on ebay. You see IBM RS/6000 SP massively parallel systems on there every now and again. You could get a decent configuration going for maybe $10,000. Power and cooling, however, will get expensive.
- warmflatsprite, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6Haha, I'm sure you don't need clarification as to what 'commercially available' really means. However, if they were to include every system in the world, I bet at least the top 20-50 would just be listed as "CLASSIFIED."
- dillybat, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5I dig it because I am currently doing contract work for Cray... ;-)
- Platypus, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5No, it's not the top 500 commercially available systems. You can't buy Red Storm or ASC Purple or MareNostrum. The list is the top 500 systems for which information has been made publicly available.
- blah12345, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The power5 systems are pretty high up on the SPECfp benchmark:
http://www.spec.org/cgi-bin/osgresults?conf=cfp2000&op=fetch&sort1=PEAK&sdir1=-1&submit=Fetch%20Results - edverb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Look out, we're about to smash through the petaflop barrier (topping out at 1.6 petaflops-- http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/20210.wss) -- this blows away BlueGeneL. QUADRILLIONS of floating point ops/sec.
Roadrunner at Los Alamos will work on simulating the US nuclear arsenal. It will use 16,000 Opteron based x3755s and 16000 Cell-based (QS20) blades (yes, the same Cell CPUs which are in PS3) in BladeCenter H chassies with 10GB Infiniband interconnect.
"Typical compute processes, file IO, and communication activity will be handled by AMD Opteron processors while more complex and repetitive elements -- ones that traditionally consume the majority of supercomputer resources -- will be directed to the more than 16,000 Cell B.E. processors."
It only uses 12,000 feet of floor space and will only cost $100M (which is a rounding error for the government, especially considering that Roadrunner will pretty much eliminate the need to do underground nuclear testing).
Coolness: All components used in the system are commercially available off the shelf. - funkydude101, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3damn even the 500th computer is made up of 800 3.06ghz processors
- Koray, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3You can get a Purple, you just have to build it yourself. If you have the cash, you can string together a bunch of IBM Power5s and make a comparable solution.
- neatflux, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I'll digg since I have an interview with LLNL this Friday who holds the #1 spot. They have two floors just for cooling that monster. When the lab turned it on, The municipal power co. noticed and called them to see what LLNL was up to.
I wouldn't say that these are fastest "commercially available" since that is sort of confusing phrasing. These are the fastest machines whose speed is publicly published. If Google's data center, for instance, has a faster distributed processor, then it wouldn't make the list since they do not publish that info. - noseeme, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Are IBM POWER based chips really that much better for floating point operations?
- jman8888, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1No they probally have integrated graphics.
- Jimgress, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3I wonder how much the lowest end Cray will set me back.
that or anything that could render at a wonderfully fast rate. - foxhoundadmin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1do you think all the pcs connected to the internet are more powerful than one, or all, of those supercomputers?
also, isn't the grape supercomputer, or whatever it's called, the most powerful supercomputer--even more so than the blue gene? - burke, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Um, no, it won't be. Maybe in 2035... Maybe.
- blackbelt88, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4Hokie Power!
- bangmalley, on 08/30/2008, -0/+1is there anybody use supercomputer as a web server?
- TheBeaver, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2I wish they'd include or at least compare grid systems like world community grid or grid.org. That would be interesting. Maybe they do and I'm just not finding it...
- hlynch1, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2wahoo go supermike at 278!!!!! used to be one of the fastest.
- metalstorm, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3I will digg it because the new list was released, which should have been mentioned in the description.
Was interesting, to say the least, working on Lincoln (number 27). - brewyet, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1#278 Louisiana State University. Oh Yeah!
- btmiller, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Google -- in a way does (if we consider Google's worldwide clusters to be a supercomputer. More accurately they're a grid of supercomputers. Really, though, as I understand it most of Google's power is devoted to back end processing. Web serving per se isn't all that compute intensive.
- xxNIRVANAxx, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2#358: It's in my basement right now!
- Topher06, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Imagine a beowulf cluster of these computers!
- Tobo71, on 10/12/2007, -5/+4Wohooo!
Virginia Tech at #47 with 12.25 teraflops.
Just a few years ago we were at #3! - Platypus, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1You can build your own equivalent of Air Force One as well, but that doesn't mean Air Force One is commercially available. ASC Purple is a particular machine, and is not for sale. The effort and expertise that goes into building and maintaining such a system is part of the system, in fact it's a significant part of the system's price, so if you can't get that all wrapped up along with the hardware (e.g. Linux Networx) then it's not commercially available in any useful sense. Build-your-own is a separate category.
- spidoman, on 10/12/2007, -7/+5Dude they've got a dell!
- tybris, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Moore's law is over.
- deviouskoopa, on 10/12/2007, -6/+4Sweet, numbers 10 and 32 are in the ORNL in my hometown, and number 47 is here at Virginia Tech where I am now! Interesting find :-)
- justahuman, on 10/12/2007, -8/+5u guyz missed my celeron pc.....!!
- tovax68, on 10/12/2007, -7/+4heh, and to think, when I purchase my new Falcon PC in 2011, it'll be faster than all these pieces of *****.
- CurtHowland, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1Where is "sort by OS"?
Maybe with 495 of the top 500 running Linux, they just don't bother any more. - GoClick, on 10/12/2007, -10/+4I love how massivly ignorant about HPC the whole lot of you are.
Yeah digg me down baby dig down flex your power!!! grrrrr - yuutokun, on 10/12/2007, -8/+0I like Mac OS
- greatblackowl, on 10/12/2007, -13/+3I bet playing Oblivion on any of those computers would be pretty cool.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -20/+3...i wonder if i'm the only one who looked for the 360 and ps3 in that list. probably not.
- JeremyBanks, on 10/12/2007, -33/+2I like Mac OS.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -37/+2I like mac ox!!
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