Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Virginia Tech Supercomputer Up To 12.25 Teraflops

Posted by timothy on from the changing-blacksburg's-climate dept.

gonknet writes "According to CNET news and various other news outlets, the 1150-node Hokie supercomputer rebuilt with new 2.3 GHz Xserves now runs at 12.25 Teraflops. The computer, the fastest computer owned by an academic institution, should still be in the top 5 when the new rankings come out in November."

1 of 215 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Speed at top by Donny+Smith · · Score: 0, Troll

    I think they'll be beaten handsomely by a number of Intel and AMD based systems within the next six months as Infiniband and kernel 2.6 enter the field.

    I don't know how much Dell's Tungsten cluster cost but those guys went online last year and got ranked #4 (just behind this Mac cluster) and they're #5 or something now. These bozos have spent a year fscking around with upgrades and from the theoretical #3 (as they were taken out since the cluster couldn't enter production) will have dropped to #7 or more in the next ranking....

    Wired's quote of the Virginia Tech guy: "We're very happy," he said. "The numbers are good. They are about 20 percent higher than they used to be."

    For Christ, of course it's 20% higher than it used to be since a year has passed since they ran the benchmark last time. Has he ever heard of Moore's Law?