You'd expect to get more than four 400GB hard drives, surely :D
Even my main rig has nearly as much storage. It does have 62,974 less CPU cores though :(
http://www.wired.com/science/discove..._supercomputer
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You'd expect to get more than four 400GB hard drives, surely :D
Even my main rig has nearly as much storage. It does have 62,974 less CPU cores though :(
http://www.wired.com/science/discove..._supercomputer
Is that it?
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=40589
Not bad i suppose....:DQuote:
The firm claims to have built a one-petaflop system with 294,912-processors in a 72-rack system, harnessed to a high-speed, optical network. It says the Blue Gene/P system design can be scaled up to an 884,736-processor, 216-rack cluster to deliver three petaflops.
One petaflop is one-quadrillion operations per second. IBM says the system is 100,000 times more powerful than a home PC and can process more operations in one second than the combined power of a stack of laptop computers nearly 1.5 miles high.
Liam
Bet it doesn't have a DVD-RW or a decent graphics card :rolleyes:
TEk
They're all probably Pentium IIs.
http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/deepco.../bluegene.html
Think they are a tad newer than P IIs
A bit power hungry though.
Power - 40 kW power consumption per rack
http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/deepco...pspecsheet.pdf
It sounds like something too good to be true. Is this being sold by the infamous Michael's Computers? More procs than gigabytes! Hmmmm.
http://www.wired.com/science/discove..._supercomputerQuote:
Originally Posted by lgbpop
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Under the hood, Ranger's brain will be built from 16,744 quad-core AMD Opteron processors. The machine's production timeline is dependent on how fast AMD can crank out the as-yet-unreleased chips, Bechtolsheim said.
give it 20 years and we will all have pc's like that! lol
Don't forget we have a budget of only $30 million.Quote:
Originally Posted by liam858
I pity the technician who has to service this baby. "Now lets see, which processor is it thats causing the BSOD". :D