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Supercomputer Breaks the $100/GFLOPS Barrier
Hank Dietz writes "At the University of Kentucky, KASY0,
a Linux cluster of 128+4 AMD Athlon XP 2600+ nodes, achieved 471 GFLOPS on 32-bit HPL. At a cost of less than $39,500, that makes it the first supercomputer to break $100/GFLOPS. It also is the new record holder for POV-Ray 3.5 render speed.
The reason this 'Beowulf' is so cost-effective is a new network architecture that achieves high performance using standard hardware: the asymmetric Sparse Flat Neighborhood Network (SFNN)." Because this was a university project, KASY0 was assembled entirely by unversity students, which while being a source of cheap labor, is also a good way to get a lot of students of involved in a great project.
Imagine a Beowu... errr... Oh..
Note to moderators, Beowulf cluster jokes CANNOT be offtopic.
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of Beowulf cluster jokes!
Supercomputer Breaks the $100/GFLOPS Barrier
Not after you factor in the SCO license fees.
Remember, everyone, this was a university project. *BSD was also a university project originally, and now *BSD is dying. So obviously university projects are not of very high quality.
Ponders while there are not University students pictures in the National Geographic Article on Slavery....
though is how many mp3's are these students sharing on this monster ?
Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
What truth?
There is no dupe
That depends on how fast the students can operate the peddle-power generators.
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
each node has two side case fans! that's gotta be the most dedicated case modding job i've ever seen! 132 pc's with 2 fans! too bad they didn't put fan guards ... or interior lights.. or blue led's... but i guess all that junk about a supercomputer makes up for it...
and it still can't run Doom III at a decent rate.
--krahd
mod me up, scottie!
mod me up scottie!
Dear customer,
.. Price .. Qty .. Total .. 8,377,500$ .. 128 .. 1,118,400,000$
At the cheap introductory price of 699$ for 80 lines of code in the Linux kernel, it will cost you 8,377,500$ by kernel since we have discovered that in fact 1000000 lines of SCO IP were copied into Linux.
Designation
Linux kernel
So you must pay us only 1,118,400,000$, and in my kind almighty I will offer you a discount of 118,400,000$ so you only have to pay ONE BILLION DOLLAR if you pay before tomorrow!
Please send you creditcard number at darl@sco.com
Sincerely yours,
-- Darl Mac Bride
- Casio sues them for trademark infringement?
- SCO asks them 92268$ worth of licenses and/or sues them for copyright infringement?
- KFK sues em for patent infringement? (you know, "the method to fry one billion chicken flaps (GFLAPS) for under 100$ with AMD processors")
Ah the USofA, Land Of the Lawyers.
I'm a chainsmokin' alcoholic sociopath, so-ci-o-path
I mean these things are Athlons! Heck, they're saving money just from the fact that they'll never have to turn on the furnace again!
Did you guys notice from the pics that there doesn't seem to be any fans in the holes on the sides? Are they crazy? These are Athlons. I hope they put enough fans in those things.
My journal has hot
I wonder how many "linux-cluster-supercomputers" are out there which would easyly make it into the top 500, but noone has ever heard of....
Well... probably more than one, definitely no more than 500.
What a shame. Freeloaders. They would never be able to achieve such performance if not for the fruits of labour of SCO .. eeeh.. lawers?
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computer
A beige box with wires coming out of it.