ackthpt writes "Code named Red Storm, Cray and Sandia National Laboratories (US Dept. of Energy) to build a 100 Teraflop super computer employing AMD's Opteron (Hammer) processors. Alluded to in the WSJ (non-free-as-in-beer subscription required), also in Infoworld, and Reuters."
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You just can't beat http://news.google.com I found out about this almost 8 hours ago. You are all lamers!
you are retarded.
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n/t.
you are retarded.
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n/t
Re:The mighty have forgoten the first grade
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Jesus H. Christ, have any of you people ever spent ten minutes in grade school?
The writer said "braking hearts". Which means that hearts are being slowed down, like your car when you apply the brakes.
Now if he meant that this was making Cray lovers broken hearted, he should learn to SPELL. It's BREAK, dumbass.
How in the hell can someone too stupid to spell a five letter word call himself a nerd?
Throw that God damned spell checker away, you illiterate morons.
Re:Sandia's reliance on supercomputers make me ner
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Just so we can nuke 11 million chinese with one warhead instead of only 10 million?
When we're talking about the chinese, every little bit helps...
Hast to be said:
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Sould it be: Please Hammer, don't hurt 'em or Imagine a Beowolf Cluster of these?
Nah, how about: Please Hammer, don't imagine a Beowolf cluster of these.
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will it run FreeBSD?
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FreeBSD is the best free operating system available.
Re:Return of Vector Processing
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This is true, I shit you not.
In the bad old days when there were super computer companies (Thinking Machines, Cray, SSI, etc) I sent an email and pitched an idea to Steve Chen about mixing vectors and mpps.
I was a young SOB at the time and the debate in the big iron circles pretty much revolved around MPP vs. Vector. The big MPP of the day was the CM-1 which was a remarkable machine despite some major limitations. It was based on the idea that super computing will go parallel and that really really cheap and simple processors is the way. They were right on the money down to the processors where the errored on the too cheap and too simple side. At the same time Cray had the YMP and it was a beast and more importantly it could solve problems that haven't been made in to parallel yet.
So being the young punk that I was I told Steve that since he was starting IBM's experimental SSI biz he should make an MPP vector machine. My idea was to make a modular vector machine like the Cray YMP, sell 2 to 10 vector processors and then as an add-on sell a cluster of POWER chips (they already had the high performance optical cluster kit for it) The complexity becomes scheduling the code so that you run the right code on the right half of the machine at the right time and then selling two compilers and some glue to make it look like one computer. I also figured you could do it garage sale style and after buying one your customer would figure out what it was that they wanted and you could focus on selling them that in the future.
Fastforward 15 years (maybe a little more or less.)
The debate has mostly died, MPP has pretty much won outside of a few
places where it never will win. Then I look at the IBM G5s and their
whole POWER/PowerPC line and I think now more than ever you could
build a combined vector and mpp machine, almost with off the shelf
parts. I have no idea how good the G5 complexes are at vector
processing and you'd still have a hell of a task in writing the "glue"
to make it look like one computer but you could do it.
It's a pitty to see Cray holding on to it, it's bread and butter to
them but it's also very much a losing battle. It almost feels dirty
to think of a cray running AMD chips for some reason while they are
building the X1..
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You just can't beat http://news.google.com I found out about this almost 8 hours ago. You are all lamers!
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Jesus H. Christ, have any of you people ever spent ten minutes in grade school?
The writer said "braking hearts". Which means that hearts are being slowed down, like your car when you apply the brakes.
Now if he meant that this was making Cray lovers broken hearted, he should learn to SPELL. It's BREAK, dumbass.
How in the hell can someone too stupid to spell a five letter word call himself a nerd?
Throw that God damned spell checker away, you illiterate morons.
Just so we can nuke 11 million chinese with one warhead instead of only 10 million?
When we're talking about the chinese, every little bit helps...
Sould it be:
Please Hammer, don't hurt 'em
or
Imagine a Beowolf Cluster of these?
Nah, how about:
Please Hammer, don't imagine a Beowolf cluster of these.
(I gave up mod points for this comment? Sheesh, I must be smoking crac....errr...oops)
Have you read the moderator guidelines? Well, have you, PUNK? (and I want a Karma: Gnarly option)
FreeBSD is the best free operating system available.
In the bad old days when there were super computer companies (Thinking Machines, Cray, SSI, etc) I sent an email and pitched an idea to Steve Chen about mixing vectors and mpps.
I was a young SOB at the time and the debate in the big iron circles pretty much revolved around MPP vs. Vector. The big MPP of the day was the CM-1 which was a remarkable machine despite some major limitations. It was based on the idea that super computing will go parallel and that really really cheap and simple processors is the way. They were right on the money down to the processors where the errored on the too cheap and too simple side. At the same time Cray had the YMP and it was a beast and more importantly it could solve problems that haven't been made in to parallel yet.
So being the young punk that I was I told Steve that since he was starting IBM's experimental SSI biz he should make an MPP vector machine. My idea was to make a modular vector machine like the Cray YMP, sell 2 to 10 vector processors and then as an add-on sell a cluster of POWER chips (they already had the high performance optical cluster kit for it) The complexity becomes scheduling the code so that you run the right code on the right half of the machine at the right time and then selling two compilers and some glue to make it look like one computer. I also figured you could do it garage sale style and after buying one your customer would figure out what it was that they wanted and you could focus on selling them that in the future.
Fastforward 15 years (maybe a little more or less.) The debate has mostly died, MPP has pretty much won outside of a few places where it never will win. Then I look at the IBM G5s and their whole POWER/PowerPC line and I think now more than ever you could build a combined vector and mpp machine, almost with off the shelf parts. I have no idea how good the G5 complexes are at vector processing and you'd still have a hell of a task in writing the "glue" to make it look like one computer but you could do it.
It's a pitty to see Cray holding on to it, it's bread and butter to them but it's also very much a losing battle. It almost feels dirty to think of a cray running AMD chips for some reason while they are building the X1..
A BEOWULF CLUSTER OF THESE!!
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