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Cliff
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 Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 2:07 am Post subject: Roadrunner |
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IBM (NYSE: IBM)'s Roadrunner supercomputer barely held on to its ranking as the
world's fastest computer, as Cray challenger Jaguar came close to snatching the
crown from the defending champion at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
The biannual Top500 list, released late Friday at the SC08 conference in Austin,
Texas, showed Roadrunner reaching a speed of 1.105 petaflops per second,
compared with Jaguar's 1.059 petaflops per second. The systems were the only two
able to perform a quadrillion scientific calculations a second. Roadrunner
reached the petaflop mark in June when it grabbed the crown.
Roadrunner is powered by nine-core PowerXCell processors, which are the same
chips used in the Sony (NYSE: SNE) PlayStation 3, and runs the Linux operating
system. Jaguar is powered by Opteron quad-core processors from Advanced Micro
Devices (NYSE: AMD) and uses the CNL OS. Both systems are in national
laboratories operated by the Department of Energy. Jaguar is located at the Oak
Ridge National Laboratory.
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adchin
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| Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 2:23 am Post subject: Re: Roadrunner |
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Cliff
You got me there. LOL..... so how fast is fast ? What's a simple example
if any ? |
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tnik
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| Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 2:49 am Post subject: Re: Roadrunner |
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adchin wrote:
| Quote: | You got me there. LOL..... so how fast is fast ? What's a simple example
if any ?
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FLOPS = FLoating point Operations Per Second
basically just a measure of performance..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLOPS |
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BlaqueSheep
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| Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 2:55 am Post subject: Re: Roadrunner |
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Cool stuff.
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Awwww! No Windoze! Can't use it. ;^) |
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Cliff
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| Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 6:04 am Post subject: Re: Roadrunner |
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On Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:55:36 -0600, "BlaqueSheep" <bs@aughtadesk.con> wrote:
| Quote: | Cool stuff.
Linux operating system.
Awwww! No Windoze! Can't use it. ;^)
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X-Windows.
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Cliff
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| Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 7:27 pm Post subject: Re: Roadrunner |
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On Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:07:11 -0500, Cliff <Clhuprich@aol.com> wrote:
http://www.informationweek.com/news/hardware/supercomputers/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=212100296&subSection=News
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IBM (NYSE: IBM)'s Roadrunner supercomputer barely held on to its ranking as the
world's fastest computer, as Cray challenger Jaguar came close to snatching the
crown from the defending champion at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
The biannual Top500 list, released late Friday at the SC08 conference in Austin,
Texas, showed Roadrunner reaching a speed of 1.105 petaflops per second,
compared with Jaguar's 1.059 petaflops per second. The systems were the only two
able to perform a quadrillion scientific calculations a second. Roadrunner
reached the petaflop mark in June when it grabbed the crown.
Roadrunner is powered by nine-core PowerXCell processors, which are the same
chips used in the Sony (NYSE: SNE) PlayStation 3, and runs the Linux operating
system. Jaguar is powered by Opteron quad-core processors from Advanced Micro
Devices (NYSE: AMD) and uses the CNL OS. Both systems are in national
laboratories operated by the Department of Energy. Jaguar is located at the Oak
Ridge National Laboratory.
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Sorry, had wrong link. Now replaced with a better one.
My fault.
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Cliff
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| Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 7:35 pm Post subject: Re: Roadrunner |
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On Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:49:10 -0500, tnik <kortjester@gmail.com> wrote:
| Quote: | adchin wrote:
You got me there. LOL..... so how fast is fast ? What's a simple example
if any ?
FLOPS = FLoating point Operations Per Second
basically just a measure of performance..
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http://www.informationweek.com/news/hardware/supercomputers/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=212100296&subSection=News
"Roadrunner reaching a speed of 1.105 petaflops per second"
How does your box rate?
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tnik
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| Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 7:56 pm Post subject: Re: Roadrunner |
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Cliff wrote:
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Not even close, I'm still running on a P4/D processor @ 3.2 GHz..
I think my vid card has more power than it.. heh |
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tnik
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| Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2008 8:17 pm Post subject: Re: Roadrunner |
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Cliff wrote:
| Quote: | http://www.informationweek.com/news/hardware/supercomputers/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=212100296&subSection=News
"Roadrunner reaching a speed of 1.105 petaflops per second"
How does your box rate?
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http://www.eweek.com/c/a/IT-Infrastructure/Nvidia-Details-Personal-Supercomputer-Design-Based-on-Tesla-GPU/?kc=EWKNLNAV11192008STR1
Plans for a 'personal super computer'
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The Nvidia HPC design is based on the company’s Tesla C1060 Computing
Processor, which is made up of 240 stream processing cores. Each Tesla
C1060 offers 4GB of dedicated memory and 933 gigaflops of single
precision floating point performance. When OEMs use the Nvidia design to
create these workstations, they can create computers that use two, three
or four of these Tesla C1060 GP-GPUs.
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Cliff
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| Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 4:49 am Post subject: Re: Roadrunner |
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On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 09:17:04 -0500, tnik <kortjester@gmail.com> wrote:
| Quote: | Cliff wrote:
http://www.informationweek.com/news/hardware/supercomputers/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=212100296&subSection=News
"Roadrunner reaching a speed of 1.105 petaflops per second"
How does your box rate?
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/IT-Infrastructure/Nvidia-Details-Personal-Supercomputer-Design-Based-on-Tesla-GPU/?kc=EWKNLNAV11192008STR1
Plans for a 'personal super computer'
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The Nvidia HPC design is based on the company’s Tesla C1060 Computing
Processor, which is made up of 240 stream processing cores. Each Tesla
C1060 offers 4GB of dedicated memory and 933 gigaflops of single
precision floating point performance. When OEMs use the Nvidia design to
create these workstations, they can create computers that use two, three
or four of these Tesla C1060 GP-GPUs.
/quote
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So far, the market for GP-GPUs remains a niche part of the overall HPC market.
Nvidia has taken the lead with its line of Tesla GP-GPUs, but Advanced Micro
Devices has also entered this market with its line of FireStream GPUs. In the
next 18 months, Intel will also enter the HPC market with a processor called
“Larrabee” but this product will be based on conventional processing cores.
In addition to its Tesla products, Nvidia has developed a compiler and a set of
development tools called Compute Unified Device Architecture or CUDA, which
allows application developers to use a variant of the C programming language to
program a GPU like a CPU.
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John Scheldroup
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| Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2008 6:46 am Post subject: Re: Roadrunner |
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"Cliff" <Clhuprich@aol.com> wrote in message news:iu59i4ps4tac7uu91c6igpnk2avfakvr3b@4ax.com...
| Quote: | On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 09:17:04 -0500, tnik <kortjester@gmail.com> wrote:
Cliff wrote:
http://www.informationweek.com/news/hardware/supercomputers/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=212100296&subSection=News
"Roadrunner reaching a speed of 1.105 petaflops per second"
How does your box rate?
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/IT-Infrastructure/Nvidia-Details-Personal-Supercomputer-Design-Based-on-Tesla-GPU/?kc=EWKNLNAV11192008STR1
Plans for a 'personal super computer'
quote
The Nvidia HPC design is based on the company's Tesla C1060 Computing
Processor, which is made up of 240 stream processing cores. Each Tesla
C1060 offers 4GB of dedicated memory and 933 gigaflops of single
precision floating point performance. When OEMs use the Nvidia design to
create these workstations, they can create computers that use two, three
or four of these Tesla C1060 GP-GPUs.
/quote
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So far, the market for GP-GPUs remains a niche part of the overall HPC market.
Nvidia has taken the lead with its line of Tesla GP-GPUs, but Advanced Micro
Devices has also entered this market with its line of FireStream GPUs. In the
next 18 months, Intel will also enter the HPC market with a processor called
"Larrabee" but this product will be based on conventional processing cores.
In addition to its Tesla products, Nvidia has developed a compiler and a set of
development tools called Compute Unified Device Architecture or CUDA, which
allows application developers to use a variant of the C programming language to
program a GPU like a CPU.
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Cliff
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If you want some real personal supercomputer horsepower is it possible to
daisy chain a bunch of PlayStation 3's and mount windows computer cluster server
in optical flash security disk
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An article in the current issue of Physical Review E examines the
performance of Cell processors when they're used in computer simulations.
The authors compare two Cell setups: a Sony PlayStation 3 (best
performance per dollar) and a QS20/QS21 IBM blade server (best in
terms of raw performance).
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081109-putting-the-ps3s-brain-to-work.html
In June 2006 Microsoft also released Windows Compute Cluster Server
2003, the first high-performance computing (HPC) cluster technology
offering from Microsoft.
http://www.futureshopforums.ca/futureshop/board/message?board.id=HomeAudioandHDSound&thread.id=2305
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc720102.aspx |
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