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