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Teragrid: Massive Grid Computing

Posted by timothy on from the pocket-calculator-of-the-future dept.

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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  1. It has to be said.... :) by big_hairy_mama · · Score: -1, Redundant

    How 'bout a beowulf cluster of these? :)

  2. imagine by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    can you imagine a beowolf cluster of these?

  3. Obligatory... by edashofy · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Imagine a Beowulf clu...

    aww, nevermind.

  4. As fast as...? by Glock27 · · Score: 1, Redundant
    They say it can perform as fast as 10,000 desktop PC's combined in one second.

    I bet it can perform as fast as 10,000 desktop PC's combined in one year, too! (WHATEVER the hell that means!)

    I presume the author meant it was "10,000 times faster than a desktop PC".

    I wonder if Hammer will be faster than those Alphas per processor...I'd think so.

    299,792,458 m/s...not just a good idea, its the law!

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  5. can you imagine... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    two beowulf clusters of these? oh man...

  6. Can you imagine... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    playing Pong on this? Oh man...

  7. An interesting _possibility_, but... by My+Trolling+Account · · Score: -1, Redundant

    ...could you imagine a Beowulf cluster of these?

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