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Big Mac Benchmark Drops to 7.4 TFlops
coolmacdude writes "Well it seems that the early estimates were a bit overzealous. According to preliminary test results (in postscript format) on the full range of CPUs at Virginia Tech, the Rmax score on Linpack comes in at around 7.4 TFlops. This puts it at number four on the Top 500 List. It also represents an efficiency of about 44 percent, down from the previous result of 80 achieved on a subset of the computers. Perhaps in light of this, apparantly VT is now planning to devote an additional two months to improve the stability and efficiency of the system before any research can begin. While these numbers will no doubt come as a disappointment for Mac zealots who wanted to blow away all the Intel machines, it should still be noted that this is the best price/performance ratio ever achieved on a supercomputer. In addition, the project was successful at meeting VT's goal of developing an inexpensive top 5 machine. The results have also been posted at Ars Technica's openforum."
Way to go /. -- updated the logo from G4 to G5 just in time.
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What they're not telling you is that the real reason they are building a supercomputer is because the only copy of the router passwords is GPG-encrypted, and they lost the key.
That's nothing, last time I benchmarked my Big Mac Cluster (100 Big Macs) it came to almost 57.6 megacalories. Those Apples will never be able to match that!
I read the internet for the articles.
"best price performance" and "Apple" in their minds?
"Virginia Tech: Home of the Poor Man's Supercomputer and Michael Vick."
Thanks for asking!!
/Watched WarGames too many times as a kid.
of all of these so-called "benchmark" discussions. Everyone really knows, in their heart of hearts, that the only valid benchmark is to be found in real-world applications such as Quake III. I want to know how many fps this alleged "supercomputer" gets.
144l. ph34r my 133t l3g4l 5k1lz!
Super computers cost more than 5 million dollars
Mainframes cost more than 1 million dollars
Mini-Super computers cost more than 1/4 million dollars
Everything else is by definition a Plain Jane (TM) computer
btw, I've worked on all 4 kinds ;-)
I installed a button on the front of my cluster
to manually clock the CPU's.
So far i've managed ONE whole flop.
My record is for the slowest supercomputer
on the planet.
siggy played guitar
(hides/ducks - I ain't an anonymous coward for nothing!)
supercomputer pronunciation key(spr-km-pytr)
n.
A mainframe computer that, as the result of birth on an alien planet, is impervious to bullets, is capable of flight, has x-ray vision, can run faster than a speeding train, etc.
"Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No it's a Cray XM-P!"
- Seymour Fights The Demon World, Action Comics, 1932
Source: The American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright (C) 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
I have been sitting here by my 1100 node G5 cluster trying to copy a 17.6 MB file for the last 20 minutes. It is so freaking slow now that I only get 44% efficiency. On my 1.5 Ghz P3 I would be able to do this in under 20 seconds. .....