OT: Major crunching power!

[micron]

I just got back from the Nebraska vs. Kansas FB game. GO BIG RED! Sometime during the game on "Husker Vision" they showed UNL's supercomputer "Prairie Fire", it contains 253 cpu's, 100 gb ram, and 2 tb of hd space! :Q:Q:Q If only they were crunching for the TeAm! :Q

 

[deerslayer]

:Q

 

[ProviaFan]

Woah. Do you know what kind and speed of CPUs they are? That would be one friggin awesome mosix cluster to have doing SETI or F@H (or both!).

 

[Swanny]

Nebraska? Aren't they having a really bad year


But supercomputers are always cool

 

[zaph]

WW!

 

[CADsortaGUY]

Originally posted by: Swanny
Nebraska? Aren't they having a really bad year


But supercomputers are always cool

Why yes - they are having a bad year he he

CkG

 

[TOOCOOL]

The University of Nebraska is the latest collegiate customer to buy a computer cluster from Lawrence-based Atípa Technologies.
Atípa - the high-performance computer division of Microtech Computers Inc., 4921 Legends Drive - delivered the $600,000.00 computer cluster to the school?s campus in Lincoln , Neb.

The hardware built in Lawrence already has been dubbed ?Prairie Fire? by university researchers. The cluster operates 1,000 times faster than a personal computer and has enough storage to handle every book in the Library of Congress, said Bret Stouder, director of Atípa.

The cluster consists of 256 AMD Athlon 1.4 gigahertz processors, networked with more than a half mile of fiber-optic cable

Last year, Atípa built and delivered a $1 million supercomputer cluster for Clemson University in Clemson , S.C.

I think they got ripped off :Q and i can't see it operate 1,000 times faster than a pc with say an xp 2400 in it :|