I would say that its "good" overblown hype. Yes, the final % is probably closer to 60%, and they'll need to get near that to make the top ten. However, I would say is good hype--esp with the Dell comparision (also a "theortical" TFlop #, I believe). It gets the G5 & Apple noticed in more places. It would probably get people who would not have considered Apple before, to look at them. I bet there's still a lot of people who think of Apple's as "toys". So I think the hype is good as a wakeup call. If VT can actually make the top 10, that would be great, as it would justify a lot of the hype...
If I did my calculations correctly, the VT cluster is already in 82nd place, with a score of 0.809 TF (beating out an IBM 252 sized cluster of Itanium 2 1 GHz chips) at 0.798 TF.
The quote was for 128 processors, or 64 nodes at 80% effeciency--17.4 TF/1100*64*.8=0.809 TF
I've seen some suggestions that using stock GBit Ethernet would lower the rate 30%, so a "stock" system would come in at.567 TF, or 146th place, slightly behind a SP Power3 375 MHz 16 way/ 520 setup.
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I would say that its "good" overblown hype. Yes, the final % is probably closer to 60%, and they'll need to get near that to make the top ten. However, I would say is good hype--esp with the Dell comparision (also a "theortical" TFlop #, I believe). It gets the G5 & Apple noticed in more places. It would probably get people who would not have considered Apple before, to look at them. I bet there's still a lot of people who think of Apple's as "toys". So I think the hype is good as a wakeup call. If VT can actually make the top 10, that would be great, as it would justify a lot of the hype...
If I did my calculations correctly, the VT cluster is already in 82nd place, with a score of 0.809 TF (beating out an IBM 252 sized cluster of Itanium 2 1 GHz chips) at 0.798 TF. The quote was for 128 processors, or 64 nodes at 80% effeciency--17.4 TF/1100*64*.8=0.809 TF I've seen some suggestions that using stock GBit Ethernet would lower the rate 30%, so a "stock" system would come in at .567 TF, or 146th place, slightly behind a SP Power3 375 MHz 16 way/ 520 setup.