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Linux Clusters Finally Break the TeraFLOP barrier
cworley submitted - several times - this well-linked submission about a slightly boring topic - fast computers. "Top500.org
has just released its latest
list of the world's fastest supercomputers (updated twice yearly). For
the first time, Linux Beowulf clusters
have joined the teraFLOP club, with six new clusters breaking the teraFLOP
barrier. Two Linux clusters now rank in the Top 10: Lawrence Livermore's "MCR" (built by Linux NetworX ) ranks #5 achieving 5.694 teraFLOP/s, and Forecast Systems Laboratory's "Jet" (built by HPTi) ranks #8 reaching
3.337 TeraFLOP/s. Other Linux clusters surpassing the teraFLOP/s barrier
include:
LSU's "SuperMike" at #17 (from Atipa
), the University at Buffalo
at #22 and Sandia National Lab at
#32 (both from Dell ), an Itanium cluster
for British Petroleum Houston at #42 (from HP
), and Argonne National Labs at
#46 (from Linux NetworX ) reached just
over the one teraFLOP/s mark with 361 processors. In the previous Top500 list compiled last June, the fastest Intel based Netfinity 1024 processor clusters from IBM were sub-teraFLOP/s and the University of Heidelberg's AMD based "HELICS" cluster (built by
Megware
) held the top tux rank at #35 with 825 GFLOP/s."
It's going to take me 4 hours to read all of this.
a single node from one of these clusters?
(hey what else can I say, it's already a cluster)
"How long until computing powerful enough to render the probability thought patterns of a manager? That's what I want to know.."
Good luck. Last I checked, that one falls under Heisenberg's Uncertainty Theorem.
int simulate_earth()
r eturn 42
{
sleep(years_to_ms(30000));
}
dunno what they need the computing power for..'
oh yeah, to generate the program to call that.
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
That shouldn't be too hard... I bet that my Palm Pilot has enough power to predict exactly, what my boss is going to say in the next meeting tomorrow.
If it's about schedules, he'll say:
Work...
- harder
- smarter
- cheaper
- faster
In that order.If it's about project goals, he'll ask me to:
Make...
If it's about specifications, he'll say: "I have no idea. You find out yourself." And for anything else it would be just blank. All blank.
On the other hand... if a manager actually has any real thoughts... Well, that would be as easy as to predict patterns from a pure chaos.
- The weatherman is usually wrong.
- Aliens are abducting us. We need to send radio signals to Fife, Alabama, not out into space.
- Unified Theory is based on Heisenburg's stuff... You can have relativity and quantum mechanics... but not both at the same time. Damn, that guy was a genius. By the way, the unified theory is:
Of course, I'm sure Doom3 has this somewhere in its source code, so ummm... go crunch 40 TFLOPS on thate = 42; // always 42.
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