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University of Kentucky Supercomputer breaks $100 per GFLOPS
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Friday, Aug 22 @ 19:33 PDT
At the University of Kentucky, KASY0,
a Linux cluster of 128+4 AMD Athlon XP 2600+ nodes with a theoretical
peak of 1 TFLOPS (32-bit) and 531 GFLOPS (64/80-bit), 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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