I am going to try and use this machine

[Bleep]

This one right here

ASCI Purple will be built using 12,544 IBM Power5 microprocessors, the same chips that are used in Apple PCs and Nintendo games systems. It will have autonomic software, allowing it to monitor itself for hardware breakdowns or lack of capacity. Blue Gene/L will be able to map stars in three dimensions, analyse earthquakes, and help in oil exploration.

Bleep

 

[SlangNRox]

If it works as as fast as the human brain, and assuming my brain is normal, then I think it will be slower than a 8086, but faster than a abacus.

 

[toft-dk]

Just think of the electrical bill 😱 :Q

 

[RemyCanad]

Where did they get the power five is used in the gamecube and Apples????????

 

[CrazySaint]

How fast you reckon that thing can crunch proteins? 😀

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: RemyCanad
Where did they get the power five is used in the gamecube and Apples????????

They probably meant PowerPC. I didnt know there was a power5! 😛

 

[lobadobadingdong]

Won't be too good at crunching SETI, SETI slows down a bit on 2-way machines, I wonder how much it will slow down on a 12,500-way box? maybe it will run at that 8086 speed slangnrox mentioned, lol.

 

[ProviaFan]

Originally posted by: lobadobadingdong
Won't be too good at crunching SETI, SETI slows down a bit on 2-way machines, I wonder how much it will slow down on a 12,500-way box? maybe it will run at that 8086 speed slangnrox mentioned, lol.

SETI slows down on some SMP systems because the memory bandwidth is shared between the processors. I'm going to assume the ASCI Purple has a NUMA (non-uniform memory access?) architecture, so memory is local to each processor. SETI would rock on that thing! 😀

 

[kadajawi]

now thats good news, the fastest system in the world won't be used for murdering and destruction! YAY! (ok, but the second fastest... 🙁 )

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: jliechty

Originally posted by: lobadobadingdong
Won't be too good at crunching SETI, SETI slows down a bit on 2-way machines, I wonder how much it will slow down on a 12,500-way box? maybe it will run at that 8086 speed slangnrox mentioned, lol.

SETI slows down on some SMP systems because the memory bandwidth is shared between the processors. I'm going to assume the ASCI Purple has a NUMA (non-uniform memory access?) architecture, so memory is local to each processor. SETI would rock on that thing! 😀

Not to mention the design is probably similar to the power4. The power4 has two cores, a fast cache between them, and another, up to, 32mB L3 cache per processor, I believe. Its a damn fast chip. And yes, NUMA is mentioned in several power4 artciles, so its probably a good possibility for power5 😉

 

[lobadobadingdong]

That was ment to be a joke, musta been lame or mis-understood, eitehr way I meant it as severe under-exageration. I personally want to know how fast seti will crunch once it's set to run in 64-bit on the opteron. should yeild some considerable improvements. But I don't really know exactly what or how the WU data is being analyzed, 64-bit buss may very well be a waste on SETI as far as I know. But I'm sure someone will enlighten me eventually.