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posted by deadline
on Monday August 25, @08:39AM
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Hank Dietz writes "At the University of Kentucky, KASY0 ,
a Linux cluster of 128+4 AMD Athlon XP 2600+ nodes, achieved 471 GFLOPS
on 32-bit Linpack. At a cost of less than $39,500, that makes it the
first supercomputer to break $100/GFLOPS. It also is the new record holder for POV-Ray 3.5 render speed.
The reason this "Beowulf" is so cost-effective is a new network
architecture that achieves high performance using standard hardware:
the asymmetric Sparse Flat Neighborhood Network (SFNN)."
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