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Wow! (Score:5, Funny)
by fryguy451 (592591)
on Saturday August 23, @10:23AM (#6772656)
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Imagine a Beowu...
errr... Oh..
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- Re:Wow! by wardomon (Score:1) Saturday August 23, @01:29PM
- Re:Wow! by BSD Yoda (Score:1) Monday August 25, @12:19PM
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Let the Beowulf cluster jokes begin! (Score:5, Funny)
by Anonymous Coward
on Saturday August 23, @10:24AM (#6772660)
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Note to moderators, Beowulf cluster jokes CANNOT be offtopic.
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of Beowulf cluster jokes!
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Also I wonder (Score:5, Interesting)
by HanzoSan (251665)
on Saturday August 23, @10:25AM (#6772662)
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How much electricity will these super computers use up?
All those wires, it looks like it takes up alot of juice.
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- Re:Also I wonder by jd (Score:2) Saturday August 23, @10:34AM
- Re:Also I wonder by Shazow (Score:1) Saturday August 23, @10:35AM
- Re:Also I wonder by lederhosen (Score:1) Saturday August 23, @10:43AM
- And how much HEAT? by Surak (Score:3) Saturday August 23, @11:08AM
- Re:Also I wonder by rusty0101 (Score:3) Saturday August 23, @11:24AM
- Re:Also I wonder by b!arg (Score:2) Saturday August 23, @12:47PM
- Not a slave when its your choice by vcbumg2 (Score:1) Saturday August 23, @01:54PM
- Electricity Cost by ModernGeek (Score:1) Saturday August 23, @03:11PM
- Re:Also I wonder by Noah Adler (Score:1) Saturday August 23, @03:52PM
- Re:Also I wonder by DoctorRad (Score:1) Sunday August 24, @08:57AM
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To those who might not know... (Score:2, Informative)
by qrash (63400)
on Saturday August 23, @10:25AM (#6772663)
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gigaflop
As a measure of computer speed, a gigaflop is a billion floating-point operations per second (FLOPS).
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Let's not get too excited.... (Score:5, Funny)
by CGP314 (672613) <CGP@nOsPAm.ColinGregoryPalmer.net>
on Saturday August 23, @10:25AM (#6772665)
(http://www.colingregorypalmer.net/london/ | Last Journal: Monday August 25, @07:16AM)
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Supercomputer Breaks the $100/GFLOPS Barrier
Not after you factor in the SCO license fees.
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Hey, works for me (Score:1, Redundant)
by DarkSarin (651985)
on Saturday August 23, @10:25AM (#6772667)
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I personally love to see this kind of stuff. As a kentucky native, anything related to my home turf gets extra kudos.
On a more technical note, I just want to know why I can't have one of these?
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It's a university project (Score:3, Funny)
by Anonymous Coward
on Saturday August 23, @10:29AM (#6772681)
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Remember, everyone, this was a university project. *BSD was also a
university project originally, and now *BSD is dying. So obviously
university projects are not of very high quality. |
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Asymmetric Sparse Flat Neighborhood Network (Score:5, Interesting)
by FreeLinux (555387)
on Saturday August 23, @10:29AM (#6772682)
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Obviously, I don't get it. This doesn't look any different than
redundant backbones or what is frequently done with VLANs. Multiple
paths between hosts is what I see. How is this "new"? |
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this is nice (Score:2, Interesting)
by the_2nd_coming (444906)
on Saturday August 23, @10:30AM (#6772685)
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but super computers as in giant iron are becoming more specialized
and as such would woop the pants off a Beowulf cluster when competing
in the specialty.
of course, if you just need a lot of general purpose super computing, it is obvious that you cannot compete with this.
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- Wrong by imsabbel (Score:3) Saturday August 23, @11:02AM
- Re:Wrong by glueball (Score:1) Saturday August 23, @11:24AM
Re:Wrong (Score:4, Insightful)
by sjames (1099)
on Saturday August 23, @02:23PM (#6773733)
(http://www.linuxlabs.com)
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Really,
it's a spectrum. One one end you have fully commodity beowulf, in the
middle, you see things like Dolphin and Myrinet, and on the high end
you see fully custom backplanes and sometimes RAM and I/O controllers
as well. Purpose built CPUs are becomming less common now, but not
unheard of.
Each step up the spectrum widens the domain of problems that the
machine can work on efficiently, and raises the price for the machine.
In many cases, a 'real' supercomputer is more or less a cluster with a
specialized network and OS and mounted in a single cabinet so it
doesn't look like a cluster.
In general when a lower end machine can efficiently run your program, there is no benefit to using a more expensive machine.
As server hardware improves and 'exotic' hardware becomes more
mainstream, the gap between the low and the high end narrows. There
will probably always be a small but existant set of problems that call
for the 'real' supercomputer, but that set is shrinking.
There are other considerations as well. If the Beowulf in your lab
can solve the problem in 1 week and is available now, while the 'real'
supercomputer on the other campus can solve it in 4 hours and will have
a timeslot available in 2 weeks, the Beowulf is 'faster' from your
point of view.
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- Re:this is nice by stdarg (Score:2) Saturday August 23, @08:09PM
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Playstation2 at 5.5GFLOPS costs only $199 $40/GFL (Score:4, Insightful)
by gorim (700913)
on Saturday August 23, @10:31AM (#6772691)
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And it was introduced to consumers just a couple years
ago. Sorry, the AMD beowulf cluster at $100/GFLOP just
isn't that impressive.
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Is that a real number or a marketing number? (Score:5, Insightful)
by Sycraft-fu (314770)
on Saturday August 23, @10:48AM (#6772764)
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I'm guessing the latter. You see all sorts of BSified numbers from
marketing departments on processors, but they have little to do with
reality. The number for this AMD cluster is a real, actual,
measured-using-a-real-world-app number. To give you some idea of BS
console numbers, the Xbox has a PIII 733 processor in it (ok,
technically it's a little different, but it's a P3 core). Now the Gflop
claim is 2.93. Out of a P3 733? Ya right, on paper perhaps but never in
the real world, much less on a real app.
Then,
of course, there is the issue of specialised chips vs normal chips. A
GeForce 4 4400 can claim, roughly, 80 Gflops peak. That sure beats the
hell out of any sinlge CPU I've ever heard of, including the Power4.
Thing is the GeForce 4 is a graphics DSP, it isn't a general purpose
CPU. It can do that kind of math when all its units are working at what
they do best, but try to reprogram it to do something else and it will
slow to a crawl (for that matter I'm not even sure that it is turing
complete).
So don't take any hype on a console to equate to real
performance in a general task. Oh, and the BS marketing number I see
for the PS2's Emotion Engine is 6.2Gflops. |
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| - Re:Playstation2 at 5.5GFLOPS costs only $199 $40/G by Surak (Score:2) Saturday August 23, @10:49AM
- In cache maybe by msgmonkey (Score:3) Saturday August 23, @10:55AM
- Re:Playstation2 at 5.5GFLOPS costs only $199 $40/G by alienw (Score:2) Saturday August 23, @11:00AM
- Re:Playstation2 at 5.5GFLOPS costs only $199 $40/G by Enonu (Score:2) Saturday August 23, @11:54AM
- This beat the PS/2 by Arker (Score:2) Saturday August 23, @11:57AM
- Re:Playstation2 at 5.5GFLOPS costs only $199 $40/G by Arker (Score:3) Saturday August 23, @12:02PM
- Re:Please mod parent down by gorim (Score:2) Saturday August 23, @10:52AM
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The burning question (Score:2, Funny)
by Timesprout (579035)
on Saturday August 23, @10:32AM (#6772693)
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though is how many mp3's are these students sharing on this monster ?
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hot damn, they're case modders! (Score:2, Funny)
by mrgreenfur (685860)
on Saturday August 23, @10:34AM (#6772702)
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each node has two side case fans! that's gotta be the most dedicated
case modding job i've ever seen! 132 pc's with 2 fans! too bad they
didn't put fan guards ... or interior lights.. or blue led's... but i guess all that junk about a supercomputer makes up for it...
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Imagine... (Score:1, Redundant)
by foobrain (411652)
on Saturday August 23, @10:40AM (#6772726)
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... a beowulf cluster of these!
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So much power... (Score:5, Funny)
by krahd (106540) <tomas@NOsPam.fcien.edu.uy>
on Saturday August 23, @10:41AM (#6772730)
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and it still can't run Doom III at a decent rate.
--krahd
mod me up, scottie!
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cable management (Score:4, Interesting)
by HBI (604924)
on Saturday August 23, @10:44AM (#6772750)
(Last Journal: Wednesday August 20, @06:26AM)
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What a mess of cables
[aggregate.org]! I understand they were hitting a price point, but would
it have killed them to spring $500 or so for a cable management system?
There's something professional looking about having the cables look neat. On the other hand, maybe i'm just anal about things.
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Cooling (Score:4, Informative)
by bengoerz (581218)
on Saturday August 23, @10:45AM (#6772756)
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I toured the previous cluster these guys did (KLAT2) and was very
impressed. However, using AMD Athlon Thunderbirds last time, it did get
quite hot. I remember standing by the cluster looking at all the wiring
and being bombarded by an overhead cooling vent. I'm also assuming that
these cooling issues is the reason that each case has two blow-holes.
I'd also like to see these guys post in-depth specs of each machine.
Being a hardware nut, I'd like to see how they got so many machines so
cheap, and maybe even what vender they used. As I remember, they worked
REALLY hard on their last cluster to keep costs to an absolute minimum.
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- Re:Cooling by imsabbel (Score:1) Saturday August 23, @11:07AM
- Re:Cooling by evilviper (Score:2) Sunday August 24, @01:01AM
- Re:Cooling by bengoerz (Score:1) Sunday August 24, @10:39AM
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Here is the bill! (Score:5, Funny)
by borgdows (599861)
on Saturday August 23, @10:50AM (#6772776)
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kernel, it will cost you 8,377,500$ by kernel since we have discovered
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So
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Please send you creditcard number at darl@sco.com
Sincerely yours,
-- Darl Mac Bride
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How long until... (Score:1, Funny)
by r00zky (622648)
on Saturday August 23, @10:50AM (#6772779)
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- Casio sues them for trademark infringement?
- SCO asks them 92268$ worth of licenses and/or sues them for copyright infringement?
- KFK sues em for patent infringement? (you know, "the method to fry one
billion chicken flaps (GFLAPS) for under 100$ with AMD processors")
Ah the USofA, Land Of the Lawyers.
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Where are the hard drives? (Score:1)
by BubbleNOP (688841)
on Saturday August 23, @10:51AM (#6772784)
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I didn't see hard drives on their parts list. Why is that? How do they boot them up?!
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Nice wiring! (Score:2, Insightful)
by nate.sammons (22484)
on Saturday August 23, @10:53AM (#6772787)
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Looks like most of the wiring jobs I've seen done by students: kasy0core.jpg [aggregate.org].
God forbid they use cable gutters ;-)
Other than that, kick ass job guys!
-nate
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Way to go! (Score:2)
by panda (10044)
on Saturday August 23, @11:00AM (#6772806)
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Hey! I used to work there.
Way to go Dr. Dietz!
So, mod me anyway you want, karma to burn.
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How many university have larger clusters? (Score:5, Interesting)
by SilverSun (114725)
on Saturday August 23, @11:04AM (#6772823)
(http://modesto.sf.net/piave/index.html)
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I wonder which universities/institutes have larger and maybe cheaper
clusters, but just don't bother with running benchmarks. I for one are
sitting next next to a tiny cluster with 40 dual-cpu nodes, which is
connected (GRID like) to a 340 dual-node cluster in a nearby town. Non
of us high ernergy physicists bothers with running any benchmarks on
our clusters, other than our own applications. I wonder how many
"linux-cluster-supercomputers" are out there which would easyly make it
into the top 500, but noone has ever heard of....
Cheers.
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University students (Score:5, Insightful)
by SuperBanana (662181)
on Saturday August 23, @11:07AM (#6772834)
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Because
this was a university project, KASY0 was assembled entirely by
unversity students, which while being a source of cheap labor, is also
a good way to get a lot of students of involved in a great project.
At the risk of being flamebait- No. Using university students is
almost always purely a way of getting cheap labor to do semi-mindless,
or completely mindless, stuff the staff doesn't want to do- it's a
common myth that students 'learn' by doing grunt work. I should know-
I have several grad student friends, and they've thusfar spent a large
part of their academic careers working in labs doing mind-numbingly
boring stuff(according to them.) Imagine if a Bio lab did this. The following would sound
pretty absurd: "Help us move our lab, you'll learn about cellular
recombination!". No. You'll learn what a bunch of lab equipment looks
like, how eccentric the professors are, and how expensive/fragile/heavy
the equipment is, and the next morning what sore muscles are like.
Let's get a reality check here. (from the site):Our group develops the systems technology
for cluster supercomputing; the more people we can show how to apply
these technologies, the better.
Huh? What cluster supercomputing "technology" does assembling a
PC and plugging it into ethernet teach you? Did they give a
presentation about how clustering technology works, for example? Did
they explain to each person, as they put a machine in a particular
place and wired it to a particular switch, WHY it was going there etc?
Obviously I wasn't there, so perhaps someone from the group can
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Re:University students (Score:5, Informative)
by panda (10044)
on Saturday August 23, @11:46AM (#6772963)
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Having worked there, and knowing what Hank Dietz and his students
are doing, I can tell you that it is different from just slapping PCs
together, stringing wire between them and installing clustering
software.
Dietz
specializes in networking and all the wiring that you see in the photos
is charted out by custom software that he's written just for this
purpose.
He works in the realm of optimizing communications
among the nodes to avoid network latency and so on. If you read the
POVRay benchmarks, you'll notice that the author comments that several
clusters' CPUs spend most of their time idle due to network latency.
Dietz is researching the best ways to eliminate much of that latency so
that the CPUs in the cluster can spend more of their time crunching
data rather than just throwing off heat. To my knowledge, he is
succeeding at this and better than most other researchers in the field.
As
for what his students learned from this, I don't know exactly which
students helped him on this. For KLAT2, there were several undergrad
volunteers who helped with wiring and assembly, mostly from the campus
Linux Users' Group. I know his grad students and research assistants
are learning a lot about how clustering and network tech works, and a
couple are doing their Ph.D. disserts in this very subfield of E.E. |
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In other news... (Score:2, Insightful)
by rmdyer (267137)
on Saturday August 23, @11:09AM (#6772840)
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Now that the university students have graduated and moved on, there
isn't any documentation, nor do they know how to use the darn thing...
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why not DSP? (Score:5, Interesting)
by mike_g (24445)
on Saturday August 23, @11:11AM (#6772842)
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Why are not DSPs used in configurations such as this. The TI 67xx
series are able to perform about 1 GFLOP/s running at only 150 MHz and
cost only about $40 per chip.
This price/performance ratio seems to make them very attractive compared to general purpose CPUs. According to the NASA G5 Study [cox.net], the P4 2.66 GHz is only able to achieve 255 MFLOP/s. And the P4 costs about 4x the price of the 6711 DSP. It
seems that DSPs should be the clear winner in supercomputer
applications, what are their disadvantages and why are they not used?
Granted there is a lack of mass produced hardware such as motherboards
for DSPs, but that alone should not exclude them from the supercomputer
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- Re:why not DSP? by panurge (Score:2) Saturday August 23, @11:40AM
- Actually... by jd (Score:2) Saturday August 23, @12:30PM
Re:why not DSP? (Score:4, Informative)
by SmackCrackandPot (641205)
on Saturday August 23, @12:36PM (#6773200)
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Actually, they do, but they are referred to as vector processors
rather than DSP's. Probably the most famous and the first was the Cray supercomputer [cray-cyber.org]. And there was also the INMOS "Transputer" [ox.ac.uk]
DSP's are optimised to handle streamed data of a particular
maximum size (Eg. 4-element float point variables). Useful for image
processing (red,green,blue,alpha) and 3D graphics(XYZW), but if you're
modelling something like ocean currents, global weather, every data
element is more than likely going to have more than four variables (eg.
temperature, humidity, velocity, pressure, salinity, ground
temperature), you may not get full optimisation.
Plus, you also need a means of getting all these processors
to talk to each other. DSP's are nearly always optimised to operate in
single pipelines, so don't need much communication support (eg. Sony
Playstation 2). However, if you're designing a supercomputer system,
the major bottleneck is the communication between processors (network
topology). Some applications might only need adjacent processors to
talk to each other (global weather simulation usually represents the
atmosphere as a single large block of air, with sub-blocks assigned to
seperate processors. Other applications might assign individual
processors to different tasks, which complete at different rates (eg.
the Mandelbrot set). A configurable network architecture allows the
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Congradulations to them (Score:1)
by Elpacoloco (69306) <`moc.emertxelsd' `ta' `ocolocaple'>
on Saturday August 23, @11:24AM (#6772874)
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Yeah, good work.
What will they do with all this processing power? Farm it out? Boast? Serve a pr0n company?
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Mckenzie Cluster, faster, cheaper per TFlop (Score:5, Interesting)
by prof_bart (637876)
on Saturday August 23, @11:33AM (#6772910)
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Hmmm...
Nice machine, but this January, CITA and the astro department at the
University of Toronto brought a 256 node dual Xenon system on line:
"1.2 trillion floating point mathematical operations per second
(Tflops) on the standard LINPACK linear algebra benchmark." Total
cost: CDN$900K (including tax) (in January prices, that's $600K U.S. or
$0.50USD/GFlop.) It's being used for some very cool Astro
simulations...
See
http://www.cita.utoronto.ca/webpages/mckenzie
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How are these booted? (Score:2)
by cmason (53054)
on Saturday August 23, @11:49AM (#6772974)
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Am I missing something? They say:
KASY0 nodes are completely diskless; there isn't even a floppy. (from the
FAQ [aggregate.org])
So how are the nodes booted? Are there bioses out there that can netboot?
-c
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New network architecture? (Score:1, Interesting)
by Anonymous Coward
on Saturday August 23, @12:00PM (#6773024)
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Not to downplay the fantastic accomplishment, but there is nothing
new about this network architecture. Not topologically, as Dietz has
been claiming for years now. When did a mix of full and partial mesh
suddenly become new?
Sweet cluster, though :D
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There is Flop and Flop (Score:4, Insightful)
by Tiosman (614633)
on Saturday August 23, @12:14PM (#6773086)
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It's not the first time that these folks in KY work around the
definition of the acronym "Flop". A Flop is a floating point operation
on 64 bits, not 32 bits. All entries in the Top500 used results with 64
bits HPL, nobody else in the world is running HPL on 32 bits. So
claiming the moon on 32 bits is easy, useless for the sake of
comparaison and almost unethical. I cannot believe that Dr Dietz do not
know the difference by now.
The same machine would yield average results on 64 bits. Difficult to draw attention without headline numbers...
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And next week ... (Score:2)
by SmackCrackandPot (641205)
on Saturday August 23, @12:15PM (#6773090)
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... they're going to have the largest Quake LAN party ever!
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overclocking (Score:2, Insightful)
by snooo53 (663796)
on Saturday August 23, @01:03PM (#6773336)
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Looking at the specs I'm curious if anyone thought of overclocking
the machines to get an even bigger performance increase. It seems that
with most Athlons you can get at least a good 100 mhz of extra speed,
even with a stock cooler, by increasing the fsb/multiplier and not even
touching the voltage. Even a modest increase like that would yield an
extra 12.8GHz of power, dropping that price figure even further.
Depending on what type of computing they're doing, increasing the fsb
might have an even bigger effect than more GHz Granted there might be some heat problems, but judging by their setup, I'm guessing the room is well-cooled.
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Pardon me Cowboy (Score:2)
by Stonent1 (594886) <stonent@stonent. ... k.net minus poet>
on Saturday August 23, @01:12PM (#6773377)
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But the "FA" says $1000 per gflop not $100
Did you RTFA?
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What about $170K (Score:4, Funny)
by Axe (11122)
on Saturday August 23, @02:20PM (#6773722)
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That they own to SCO, that damn commies? Did they at least aknowledge using stolen property?
What a shame. Freeloaders. They would never be able to achieve such performance if not for the fruits of labour of SCO .. eeeh.. lawers?
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$100/GFLOP (Score:2)
by exp(pi*sqrt(163)) (613870)
on Saturday August 23, @02:23PM (#6773732)
(Last Journal: Monday January 06, @11:36PM)
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Er...you can do that with parts from ebay or craigslist without too much trouble.
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gain from cluster (Score:1)
by h4x0r-3l337 (219532)
on Saturday August 23, @03:26PM (#6774045)
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It's interesting to note that the this cluster of 128, 2 GHz
processors is only about 9 times faster than a single 1 GHz Itanium 2
processor at performing the PvRay benchmark.
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university price calcuations are bogus (Score:2)
by peter303 (12292)
on Saturday August 23, @05:42PM (#6774639)
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You have to include a people time, building overhead etc. A
reserach grant may be billing $500 - $1000 a day for this. If this
takes 50 man days to set up, then the cost is is another $50,000.
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shelving (Score:1)
by da2 (542211)
on Saturday August 23, @06:51PM (#6774981)
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that shelving they used looks almost identical to the kinda stuff i
have in my bedroom, unfortunatly my shelves are not filled with a
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128+4 (Score:1)
by beggarstune (636814)
on Sunday August 24, @08:41AM (#6776982)
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What're the extra 4 for? They don't mention it. Hot spares? Command + control? Scheduling?
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- Re:128+4 by Nynaeve (Score:1) Sunday August 24, @12:39PM
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I submitted this 2 months ago. (Score:1)
by sundling (92926)
on Sunday August 24, @11:16AM (#6777553)
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I guess you have to pick a more interesting article on the same topic or know someone. :(
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reported tuesday, july 29 - but incorrectly cited. (Score:1)
by tfulton2 (648201)
on Sunday August 24, @08:38PM (#6780452)
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http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=72589&cid=6558 445
Sorry for the sloppy reporting; posted in a followup the citation.
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He is giving a talk on Oct 28 at 4:00 (Score:1)
by tfulton2 (648201)
on Tuesday August 26, @08:06AM (#6792546)
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...in the W. T. Young library on the U of Ky campus here in
Lexington. Anyone in the area who wants to grill him should try it the
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Re:Its about time (Score:1)
by Toby Studabaker (690428)
on Saturday August 23, @10:42AM (#6772736)
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Hey! Ho!
It's saturday evening and time to start drinking beer!
There's always use for Gflops. How about distributed DVD ripping, packing and then serving them to the people on the net?
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Re:Its about time (Score:1)
by Anonymous Coward
on Saturday August 23, @11:04AM (#6772821)
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I am a grad student at UK Computer Science dept...
They are working on projects to use this type of power ... see http://www.metaverselab.org
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favorite is the hooking together 16+ cheap ($2000 or so) projectors
together adhoc to build a display that covers walls/floor, and
combining that with head tracking and video cameras that look for
shadows so that other projectors can fill in! This needs a lot of
GFLOPS!
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Re:Hmm Math? (Score:2, Informative)
by r00zky (622648)
on Saturday August 23, @11:17AM (#6772854)
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128+4...
That's like 132 isn't it?
From the FAQ:
KASY0's configuration is:
128 + 4 "cold spare" PC nodes, each containing:
One AMD Athlon XP 2600+ (the 2.075GHz version)
One 512MB PC2700 DDR SDRAM
BioStar M7VIT Pro motherboard
Two Linksys LNE100TX NICs
Codegen 6042L case with 400W power supply
18 BenQ SE0024 24-port Fast Ethernet switches
405 Cat5 Fast Ethernet cables
RedHat Linux 9.0, modified Warewulf 1.11
So it's 128, the other 4 are spares!
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Mods on crack (Score:1)
by imsabbel (611519)
on Saturday August 23, @11:25AM (#6772887)
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"Insightful"?!?
Yeah, right.
Guess
everybody from universitys to big corporations spend tons of money for
supercomputers/clusters because they have no use for them.
Sounds very likely.
Given the fact that your other posts in this topic all concern the blackout or McDonalds->
MOD PARENT DOWN (OFFTOPIC)
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Re:Hmm Math? (Score:1)
by DirkDaring (91233)
on Sunday August 24, @10:37AM (#6777361)
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The best supercomputer in history, his brain. Or at least I would hope thats what he used.
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