Supercomputer Breaks the $100/GFLOPS Barrier

Posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday August 23, 2003 @02:21AM from the new-kid-in-town dept.

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.

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Hey, works for me by DarkSarin · 2003-08-23 02:25 · Score: 1, Redundant

I personally love to see this kind of stuff. As a kentucky native, anything related to my home turf gets extra kudos. On a more technical note, I just want to know why I can't have one of these?

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Imagine... by foobrain · 2003-08-23 02:40 · Score: 1, Redundant

... a beowulf cluster of these!
Re:Hmm Math? by borgdows · 2003-08-23 03:02 · Score: 0, Redundant

woww!!
Do you have used a supercomputer to calculate this impressive formula??