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Sun Donation Spurs Linux Cluster at Purdue
An anonymous reader writes "Purdue University, with a $3.6 million gift from Sun Microsystems, is giving recycled PCs new life as a computer cluster that makes high-performance computing power available in undergraduate classes. 'Previously, my students could only do what I'd describe as 'proof' animations - small, low-resolution and not presentation quality,' [Professor Richard] Paul said. 'With access to this computing power, the students will be able to ship their software files of instructions to the Linux cluster, and it will come back in three or four hours with modeling, lighting and animation. Students will get to experience the whole thing in terms of scale and presence, and they can do longer animations.' More images of the current Linux cluster and other servers at Purdue are out there."
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Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these!
Electrical costs make this a White elephant gift!
The Dual G5 VT cluster (1,100 dual g5 macs) is not only rated as the 3rd fastest super computer on at www.top500.org next november, it is also one of the cheapest per kilowatt hour to run, not super cheap, but cheap enough.
These machines from sun suck down the electricity and provide measly amounts of gflops as thoer benefit.
This department would have been better off getting a handlful of g5 macs.
They can do 16 GFlops peak if calculating FMADD pairs.
Why?
Because the g5 has TWO FPUs per chip and heir are two chips.
And each fpu can do a combined multiply-add per cycle and there are 2 billion cycles per chip and two chips in the 2999 dollar macs.
plus you can wedge 8 GB physical fast ram in them, and they come with fast dvd burners to burn and rip porn movies.
16 GFlops on a modern mac that chews up not too much electricity for cpus alone, make this gift from sun a white elephant.
Thats not even counting the 128 bit vector processors on the g5 (Altivec). Those things offer SIMD using over 110 different amazing opcodes each.
Each month the elctricity bill could have bought them 4 more dual g5 macs.
The Matrix is not destroyed, but instead, continues to exist.
The Oracle asks the Architect if he's going to keep his promise.
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Sorry to spoil it.
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The Matrix is not destroyed and continues to exist.
Sorry to spoil it.
The Matrix isn't destroyed; it continues to exist.
Sorry to spoil it.
The Matrix isn't destroyed.
Sorry to spoil it.
now we get matrix spam? hopefully this wont continue after nov 5th