Apple/Virginia Tech is #3 in Super Computers and #1 if you do not count

anthlover · 11-16-2003, 12:36 PM

Apple/Virginia Tech is #3 in Super Computers and #1 if you do not count Customized

That is the Super computer Came in #3. And #1 in Computers using off the Shelf systems. The Top two are still based on custom made computers and of course the Apple one only cost a very small fraction of what the others cost.

http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/...supercomputer/

Here is my favorite part of the news article above...

A cluster of Dell Corp. PowerEdge 1750 servers with a total of 2,500 Intel Corp. Xeon 3.06GHz processors and running a Red Hat Inc. distribution of Linux ranked fourth. The machine, which is at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, achieved a maximum performance of 9.8TFlops.

Apple/Virginia Tech systems achieved a much a higher score using 300 less CPUs.

Edit - title edited so we don't wind up listed in Google as a pr0n site -- Craig A.

anthlover · 11-16-2003, 12:51 PM

Big Mac officially Number Three
Here's the new Top 500
list, released yesterday (Nov 15th).

The part that pleases me the most is the "Self-made." Garage supercomputing lives.
{Edit}

I'll boldly predict in 2004 there will be a surge in distributed processing applications for the G5 running Panther. (Can you say 'Xgrid?')

I took the Liberty of Lifting Craig's two posts above from his closed thread on the same topic (Craig R. Arko [that is]).

Craig R. Arko · 11-16-2003, 12:57 PM

A-OK!

griffeymac · 11-19-2003, 01:23 PM

Eh, what's a half a teraflop these days?

Save the Chief!

G.--

anthlover · 11-19-2003, 04:51 PM

The VT Super Computer was 10.2x Teraflops for 1100 Dual 2gz G5

or .0093 Tflops Per Dual 2gz G5 or put another way for every 108 Dual G5s was equal to 1 Tflop.

Thats a lot of Power compared to running filters in Photoshop

11-16-2003, 12:51 PM	#2
anthlover Hall of Famer Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 3,620	Big Mac officially Number Three Big Mac officially Number Three Here's the new Top 500 list, released yesterday (Nov 15th). The part that pleases me the most is the "Self-made." Garage supercomputing lives. {Edit} I'll boldly predict in 2004 there will be a surge in distributed processing applications for the G5 running Panther. (Can you say 'Xgrid?') I took the Liberty of Lifting Craig's two posts above from his closed thread on the same topic (Craig R. Arko [that is]). Last edited by anthlover; 11-16-2003 at 01:02 PM.

11-19-2003, 01:23 PM	#4
griffeymac Triple-A Player Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Villa Grove, IL Posts: 139	Eh, what's a half a teraflop these days? Save the Chief! G.-- __________________ Dual 2 GHz G5, 2 GB RAM, 250 GB hard drive, Dual 23" flatscreens Powerbook 15" 1.25 GHz G4 733 MHz G4 Quicksilver, 1.1 GB RAM, dual 40 GB hard drives

11-19-2003, 04:51 PM	#5
anthlover Hall of Famer Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 3,620	Well I am sure some as a better anwser but here is real world one. The VT Super Computer was 10.2x Teraflops for 1100 Dual 2gz G5 or .0093 Tflops Per Dual 2gz G5 or put another way for every 108 Dual G5s was equal to 1 Tflop. Thats a lot of Power compared to running filters in Photoshop

11-16-2003, 12:36 PM	#1
anthlover Hall of Famer Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 3,620	Apple/Virginia Tech is #3 in Super Computers and #1 if you do not count Apple/Virginia Tech is #3 in Super Computers and #1 if you do not count Customized That is the Super computer Came in #3. And #1 in Computers using off the Shelf systems. The Top two are still based on custom made computers and of course the Apple one only cost a very small fraction of what the others cost. http://maccentral.macworld.com/news/...supercomputer/ Here is my favorite part of the news article above... A cluster of Dell Corp. PowerEdge 1750 servers with a total of 2,500 Intel Corp. Xeon 3.06GHz processors and running a Red Hat Inc. distribution of Linux ranked fourth. The machine, which is at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, achieved a maximum performance of 9.8TFlops. Apple/Virginia Tech systems achieved a much a higher score using 300 less CPUs. Edit - title edited so we don't wind up listed in Google as a pr0n site -- Craig A.

11-16-2003, 12:57 PM	#3
Craig R. Arko Site Admin Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Minneapolis, MN Posts: 3,988	A-OK!