Teragrid: Massive Grid Computing

onyxcide writes: "Envision is running a quick article on a new national grid of computing resources called TeraGrid. Half a petabyte of disk storage, 40-gigabyte-per-second national optical backbone, and 13 teraflops of computing power will make up this monster. It will allow "lavish amounts of online data to be continually available for instantaneous analysis, data mining, and knowlege synthesis." There's another article in the same magazine here: Transforming Research with High-Performance Grid Computing" LighthouseJ adds some details: "C|Net's news.com has a story about a new Compaq supercomputer named Terascale. It uses 3,000 Alpha EV68 processors distributed over 750 servers using networking systems from Quadrics. They say it can perform as fast as 10,000 desktop PC's combined in one second. The massive computer will make it's official debut on Monday at the Supercomputing Center in Pittsburgh PA."

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TeraGrid at SC2001

[shalunov]

TeraGrid will be present at SC2001 (a yearly conference and expo for supercomputing and high-performance networking). Just to give you a hint of what it is like, the showfloor will have more than 10Gb/s of total outgoing Internet capacity (plus more private/non-IP circuits).

If you're going to be in Denver the week of Nov 12, 2001, consider stopping by. If nothing else, the place will have free and open 802.11b!

Re:Moore's Law Holds True...Film at 11...

[JesseL]

Moore's law refers to the number of transistors that will be packed onto an integrated circuit. Doesn't say anything about processing power let alone massive computer arrays.