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New 640-Node Apple Xserve Cluster at UIUC

Posted by timothy on from the keeps-you-warm-at-night dept.

frostyboy writes "At the University of Illiois at Urbana-Champaign's Department of Computational Science and Engineering , a new high-performance computing cluster comprising 640 Dual G5 Xserves has completed benchmarking runs for the top500 list. The New Turing Cluster is a replacement for an old 208-node linux cluster. Preliminary results have it at about 4.6 teraflops, not too shabby. Slide Presentation and Photo Album"

3 of 67 comments (clear)

  1. Re:NFS only by oudzeeman · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I had serious issues with a 256 compute-node XServe G5 cluster and a NFS server running OS X... we eventually had to go to linux on our NFS server as well...

  2. Re:Sweet Dreams Steve by prockcore · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Virginia Tech built the X cluster for around $5 million whereas the computers next to it on the top 500 list cost $20+ million.

    Mellanox donated 1100 Infiniband adapters to Virginia Tech. At $3000 a piece, that's $3.3 million of interconnect hardware that Virginia Tech got for free.

    Virginia tech can never be used as a cost comparison because they got so much stuff for free or discounted.

  3. Re:Linux? by SA+Stevens · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Did they really 'invent' that much of the technology, or did they just implement the stuff invented at CERN?