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Birth Of A Terascale Baby

Posted by Hemos on from the wah-wah-wah dept.

Seanasy writes: "Want to follow the construction of the most powerful unclassified computer in the world? The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center will be publishing status updates on the installation of the Terascale Computing System. Right now you can view an MPEG movie of the first clusters to be installed."

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  1. Just in time by the_tsi · · Score: 3

    Just in time for November's Top 500 list. Oh, "scheduled to be installed." Guess not. Sorry, guys!

    -Chris

  2. It has to be said... by handorf · · Score: 3

    Can you imagine a Beowulf cluster of these?

    OK, Fire the moderation beam!

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  3. Funding? What funding? by RollingThunder · · Score: 3

    NSF Awards $45 Million to Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center for "Terascale" Computing

    Looking into the future, I can see the next one to be posted...

    Project cancelled, following $48 million bill in bandwidth due to excessive setup movie download by 'Slashdot' readers

  4. A look at the competition by sferics · · Score: 3

    The Japanese are carrying out an insanely ambitious project,for a 640 node, 40 sustained TeraFlops computer, housed in a building the size of a large hockey arena. They call it the "Earth Simulator" and its main purpose is to carry out atmospheric/climatological research and simulations of the simmering ball of lava we live on (volcano and earthquake research).

    Construction is in full swing now; hardware to come online first quarter 2001, software "will take a little longer".

    More tech-oriented info here.

  5. /.ed by wowbagger · · Score: 4

    Funny how a site dedicated to such a powerful system is now slashdotted and not responding.

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  6. Fun stuff to know: power usage by Idaho · · Score: 5

    Did you know that computers like this use real much power? Like, *real* much?!

    In Amsterdam (the Netherlands), no more computer-centers (e.g. co-locations where you can put your servers with a fast net connection) can be built because there is not enough power for them! Level 3 Communications has a co-location building there which is about 10.000 meters square (this is not as big as it sounds, it's just 100x100 m), filled up with ISPs servers and the like. This single building is actually using more energy than Schiphol airport (which is rather big - many trans-athlantic flights go through Schiphol. If you've ever been in the Netherlands you'll know)

    They also have a diesel power generator that can power the entiry building in case of a blackout - it burns around 1000 liters (about 250 gallons or so) a day.

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