supercomputer for under 2500.00

[Modelworks]

Very nicely done.


http://www.calvin.edu/~adams/research/microwulf/

Microwulf is a personal, portable Beowulf cluster, providing over 26 Gflops of measured performance, for less than $2500. Its dimensions are just 11" x 12" x 17", making it small enough to fit on one's desktop or in a suitcase.


Found the link on that site for the supercomputer top 500.
http://www.top500.org/lists/2007/06

top one for june was IBM blue gene.

lueGene/L boasts a peak speed of over 360 teraFLOPS, a total memory of 32 tebibytes, total power of 1.5 megawatts, and machine floor space of 2,500 square feet. The full system has 65,536 dual-processor compute nodes. Multiple communications networks enable extreme application scaling:

* Nodes are configured as a 32 x 32 x 64 3D torus; each node is connected in six different directions for nearest-neighbor communications
* A global reduction tree supports fast global operations such as global max/sum in a few microseconds over 65,536 nodes
* Multiple global barrier and interrupt networks allow fast synchronization of tasks across the entire machine within a few microseconds
* 1,024 gigabit-per-second links to a global parallel file system to support fast input/output to disk

65,536 dual processors ,
I wonder if it can run vista and games without lag

 

[The-Noid]

Probably just standard quads. Not really hard to do.

 

[RussianSensation]

So how exactly do 4 X2 3800+ processors get 26 Gflops of performance ("measured")?

 

[Markfw]

Originally posted by: RussianSensation
So how exactly do 4 X2 3800+ processors get 26 Gflops of performance ("measured")?

Hence my other post, right below this one. I think one Q6600@3.2 will beat 4 X2 3800's@stock easily.

 

[RussianSensation]

Originally posted by: Markfw900

Originally posted by: RussianSensation
So how exactly do 4 X2 3800+ processors get 26 Gflops of performance ("measured")?

Hence my other post, right below this one. I think one Q6600@3.2 will beat 4 X2 3800's@stock easily.

I was just about to say the same thing! I don't think it'll crush it though but be fairly equal. I realize it's unfair to the computer built a while ago since X2 3800+ don't cost $165 each anymore.

But today you can easily destroy this build with dual Q6600 @ 3.2-3.4ghz ($290) with $30 Cooler Master TX coolers. This will only require 2 motherboards instead of 4 (say DS3L for $95 a piece) and 2GB of ram now cost $60. So really the post is outdated imo.

 

[Markfw]

Based on my personal benchmarks (using F@H), one 3.2 GHZ Q6600 should beat 4 X2 3800@stock. It takes 38 minutes to so one step on am SMP unit, where I can do the same one in 9 minutes on my Q6600@3.2. Thats over 4 times the horsepower !

 

[aigomorla]

Originally posted by: Markfw900
Based on my personal benchmarks (using F@H), one 3.2 GHZ Q6600 should beat 4 X2 3800@stock. It takes 38 minutes to so one step on am SMP unit, where I can do the same one in 9 minutes on my Q6600@3.2. Thats over 4 times the horsepower !

heh imagine my 4.05ghz WCG stable Q6600 ES.