NASA unveils its latest super computer. Pics included!

[OhioDude]

42.7 teraflops. Bet this puppy would crunch a few workunits per day! :Q

Read about it here:

http://amesnews.arc.nasa.gov/r...ses/2004/04_101AR.html

See pics here:

http://amesnews.arc.nasa.gov/r...ter/supercomputer.html

🙂

 

[RigorousT]

hurricane track prediction, global ocean circulation, prediction of large scale structures in the universe, and the physics of supernova detonations

glad they're not just playing solitaire on that beast... 😀 pretty humbling power gathered in one place..

 

[networkman]

:Q

Wonder what the electricity bill for that beast is!?! Gotta factor in the A/C too you know. 😉

 

[amdxborg]

Now that's what I want for Christmas! 😉

 

[Marrkks]

Wonder what the electricity bill for that beast is!?! Gotta factor in the A/C too you know.

However, that performance comes at a cost: heat. The cabinets of the SGI systems in Columbia have been specially modified with water-cooled radiator systems that chill the hot exhaust air that rises off the chips.

It currently consumes about 2 megawatts of the facility's 8-megawatt capacity.

also

Columbia uses Itanium 2 processors--a combination of current models that come with 6MB of high-speed cache memory and as-yet-unannounced models with 9MB of cache

quotes from http://news.com.com/SGI+claims...6813.html?tag=nefd.hed

 

[Unforgiven]

we need to recruit them for ALL projects! someone get on it :beer:

 

[kamper]

Wow, I didn't know linux was capable of handling 2,000 processors. Also, $50 million to build the thing somehow seems cheap. How much did the earth simulator cost?

 

[Soggysocks]

I can't use anyway. :|


Won't fit my "Puter room :disgust:

 

[ViRGE]

That's probably the most Itanium2s Intel's sold so far.😛

 

[Wiz]

I'm thinking (in the ball park) it could do about 1.2 million seti WU's / day.

Just a guess...
A normal WU has about 3.3 Tflops and this thing at full speed should have about 47 Tflops / second power.
(they said it was only up to about 80% of capacity)
That's roughly 14 WU's per second, or 1.2 Million WU's per day.

nice computer...

Now somebody needs to build some software that really heats it up!! (seti@home would definitely raise this beasts temperature) 😉

 

[Zim Hosein]

Originally posted by: RigorousT

hurricane track prediction, global ocean circulation, prediction of large scale structures in the universe, and the physics of supernova detonations

glad they're not just playing solitaire on that beast... 😀 pretty humbling power gathered in one place..

I bet someone is playing Solitaire on it! 😛

Thanks for the news OhioDude :beer:

 

[Assimilator1]

Awesome rig!:Q

Do you reckon they recycle the heat to claim back some power?😛
I wonder what Q3 scores it would give with dual 6800 Ultras? 😉

total of 10,240 Intel® Itanium® 2 processors

That'll be a few buckets worth of HS compound then!😀

 

[Wiz]

Hopefully they are using heat exchange technology to capture as much energy as possible, all that water cooling must make for some serious pipefitting - it would be interesting just to see the diagrams of the water flow.

 

[imported_MarkP]

Originally posted by: Wiz
I'm thinking (in the ball park) it could do about 1.2 million seti WU's / day.

Just a guess...
A normal WU has about 3.3 Tflops and this thing at full speed should have about 47 Tflops / second power.
(they said it was only up to about 80% of capacity)
That's roughly 14 WU's per second, or 1.2 Million WU's per day.

nice computer...

Now somebody needs to build some software that really heats it up!! (seti@home would definitely raise this beasts temperature) 😉

The real question is who's Seti Queue should it use? 🙂

 

[IEC]

Now only if they had used Opterons instead... 😛

Seriously, that could work as a water heater.

 

[theinsen1]

Originally posted by: Wiz
I'm thinking (in the ball park) it could do about 1.2 million seti WU's / day.

Just a guess...
A normal WU has about 3.3 Tflops and this thing at full speed should have about 47 Tflops / second power.
(they said it was only up to about 80% of capacity)
That's roughly 14 WU's per second, or 1.2 Million WU's per day.

nice computer...

Now somebody needs to build some software that really heats it up!! (seti@home would definitely raise this beasts temperature) 😉

i am sorry to say u are wrong my friend!!

seti@home is not build for a smp.
seti@home may run on the machine(doubtful).

Comprised of an integrated cluster of 20 interconnected SGI® Altix® 512-processor systems, for a total of 10,240 Intel® Itanium® 2 processors

that means 10,240 instances
multiply by time taken by 1 processor(approx an hr) we will have 10,240 units a day
not 1.2 million units.

 

[Hyperfocal]

Originally posted by: theinsen1
that means 10,240 instances
multiply by time taken by 1 processor(approx an hr) we will have 10,240 units a day
not 1.2 million units.

Wouldn't it be more like 245,760 WU's per day?

 

[Accord99]

Originally posted by: ariafrost
Now only if they had used Opterons instead... 😛

Well, if they did they would have paid twice as much and be waiting another year or some before it comes online like Red Storm.

Seriously, that could work as a water heater.

It uses 2MW, Red Storm uses about 1.7MW so there isn't much difference.

 

[JonB]

I bet their local power company loves them.

Hopefully then get their power for less than $0.10 per KW/hr

 

[lobadobadingdong]

Originally posted by: kamper
Wow, I didn't know linux was capable of handling 2,000 processors. Also, $50 million to build the thing somehow seems cheap. How much did the earth simulator cost?

Linux/Unix is probably one of the extremely few OS's that could handle that many processors.

 

[theinsen1]

Originally posted by: Hyperfocal

Originally posted by: theinsen1
that means 10,240 instances
multiply by time taken by 1 processor(approx an hr) we will have 10,240 units a day
not 1.2 million units.

Wouldn't it be more like 245,760 WU's per day?

i made a woopsie!! 😱
thanks hyperfocal you are correct
10240*24=245760
:thumbsup:

 

[LANMAN]

Originally posted by: theinsen1

Originally posted by: Hyperfocal

Originally posted by: theinsen1
that means 10,240 instances
multiply by time taken by 1 processor(approx an hr) we will have 10,240 units a day
not 1.2 million units.

Wouldn't it be more like 245,760 WU's per day?

i made a woopsie!! 😱
thanks hyperfocal you are correct
10240*24=245760
:thumbsup:

So if it's 245760 WU per day then each WU being a typical 341k * 245760 = 83804160/k per day of data.
Hope the huge pipe comes with it too. (3491804k right out of the gate)

This could bring some serious potential to the TeAm! 😀

--LANMAN

 

[Assimilator1]

Man that's a lot of data!:Q