| Supercomputer Breaks the $100/GFLOPS Barrier | Posted on Sunday, August 24 @ 12:18:37 EDT 
Supercomputer Breaks the $100/GFLOPS Barrier
At the University of Kentucky, KASY0, a Linux cluster of
128+4 AMD Athlon XP 2600+ nodes, achieved 471 GFLOPS on 32-bit HPL. 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)." 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.
read more http://aggregate.org/KASY0/
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