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SAPAC Unveils New Australian Supercomputer
Sean Burford writes "The South Australian Partnership for Advanced Computing (SAPAC) has unveiled its new AU$1.7 Million supercomputer
named Hydra. It is an IBM 1350 Linux cluster with 126 compute nodes (xSeries 335), 1 head node (xSeries 335), 1 storage
node (xSeries 345) and 1 managment node (xSeries 345). Hydra has a peak theoretical performance of 1.2 Teraflops, and has currently benchmarked at 682 Gigaflops. The current benchmark
places it in the fastest three supercomputers in Australia and equivalent to the current number 80 in the world.
The cluster has a total of
258 2.4Ghz Intel Xeon processors and 258GB of RAM. SAPAC expects to achieve a benchmark closer to 700 Gigaflops with further tuning. Hydra is hosted at The University Of Adelaide, who already host a
40 node cluster of Sun e420 machines."
Nahhh, that's not a computer. Now this, this is a computer.
Mike
be very, very careful around this one mate.
It is very, very dangerous.
Look at the size of the heatsink on that one!
And this buggers attck fast. And I mean real fast.
Crikey!
42.
They say the first thing to go is your penis. Well, it's either that or your brain. I forget which...
They are still going to have to upgrade when Doom 3 comes out
At least now there is one thing that goes fast in Adelaide.
MrCreosote Meow!Thump!Meow!Thump!Meow!Thump! "You're right! There isn't enough room to swing a cat in here!"
they *still* can't get sound to work, and their window manager crashes every time they play TuxRacer.
They must be worried about Global Warming.
Management never uses its Head. ;-)
Go permanent? In your dreams and my worst nightmares.
nobody says doolally anymore mate. It's all so bloody American nowadays. The word is fuckers.
I don't simulate the Earth, I stimulate it, oooh yeah.
Aww that's nothing. Last place I worked everybody - including the janitorial staff, had their own robotic assistants modeled after Natalie Portman, and the personal computers everyone used for were liquid nitrogen cooled Cray with 295 GaAs based processors, and just over half a TB of memory pre system. That and the computers were connected to dual 40" OLED panels capable of 3640x2400 resolution each at 1500:1 contrast. Every system had neurological with supplimental eye-tracking input systems so you can think about moving the cursor in the 3D desktop and it would be done before you finished thinking about it. And that's only the computer for just reading and writing email! you should see the stuff we used for application development and integration testing. Pff.
My life in the land of the rising sun.
Well, I live in Australia, and note the confusion caused by the number 258, so here is why...
The number between 5 and 7 may not be spoken here because of its similarity (when spoken with a New Zealand accent) with a certain act often carried out between mammals.
In fact a whole new mathematical system is being developed (based on pictograms) to avoid political insensitivities in the Land where legislation has been passed to the effect that children access the internet, and so the internet must not contain content (including numbers) that might corrupt the young.
The pictogram for the number that dare not speak its name is an image of two trees. (tree and tree is s.x).
Similarly, three trees with 'watermarks' (evidence of the recent passing of puppydogs with full bladders) represents the number 99. (dirty tree + dirty tree + dirty tree = 99).
The same pictogram with underscores (here called doggy doo-doos) represents 100.
(dirty tree and a turd, dirty tree and a turd, dirty tree and a turd...)
Besides, our new supercomputer sure beats the 286 we've had to share for the last 10 years! Them Y2K problems are getting to be a real pain!