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TeraGrid Gets an Upgrade

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the we-need-more-flops dept.

The Fun Guy writes to tell us The NSF has awarded $48 million to the University of Chicago to operate and expand TeraGrid over the next five years. TeraGrid is 'a national-scale system of interconnected computers that scientists and engineers are using to solve some of their most challenging problems. TeraGrid is the world's largest open computer, storage and networking system. Only the U.S. Department of Energy's weapons laboratories have larger systems, which are dedicated to classified research.' Currently, the TeraGrid's power is just over 60 teraflops.

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  1. How does this... by Odin_Tiger · · Score: 4, Interesting

    ...stack against the likes of distributed.net and other similar projects for processing power?

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  2. Re:Eww more chances to refine PI by CDMA_Demo · · Score: 3, Funny


    Yea, find out where is the recurring sequence of 424242....

  3. I want one by stunt_penguin · · Score: 5, Funny

    but only if it comes in white....

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  4. Quick, everyone! by gardyloo · · Score: 3, Funny

    A good slashdotting should be just what they want to test their servers.

  5. They're upgrading to run... by malraid · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...Windows Vista!!

    Had to say it, sorry!

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  6. just put xbox 360s together by alienfluid · · Score: 3, Funny

    hah .. you could just put 60 xbox 360s together to achieve that kind of power ..



    xbox 360 specs


    1. Re:just put xbox 360s together by FLAGGR · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Just incase you weren't joking.

      Microsoft can say they get x amount of tflops, and lets pretend for a moment that theoretically they are telling the truth. In reality, things *never* get to their potentials because of bottlenecks, unless of course your building super computers and have millions to invest. Microsoft and Sony can play the TFlops game, but in the end they aren't that powerful (as ArsTechnica has reported based on developer comments, they are much closer to 2-3 times the current generation in power)

      I know you were probably joking, but you were modded insigtful and I couldn't help myself.

    2. Re:just put xbox 360s together by CTho9305 · · Score: 4, Insightful

      CPU Game Math Performance
              * 9.6 billion dot product operations per second
      9.6GFLOPS*60=576GFLOPS. That's not even remotely close to 1TFLOPS, let alone 60 TFLOPS. You're off by 2 orders of magnitude.

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  7. Every time I run a 500 proc batch job ... by Salis · · Score: 3, Interesting

    it makes me smile.

    It's just so ... cool.

    (And the only people who I say that to are my research group members and ... the people of Slashdot!)

    The TeraGrid is well managed too.. very few problems for such a huge system.

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  8. Re:Department of Energy? by njcoder · · Score: 3, Funny
    "Imagine if the Department of Energy applied those resources to improving or replacing gasoline, supplying California's nearly-insatiable demand, creating more efficient power..."

    Imagine if they used it to make ice cream!

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