Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 04:45:51 05/13/04
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On May 13, 2004 at 02:35:44, Vincent Lejeune wrote: >On May 13, 2004 at 01:21:50, Aaron Gordon wrote: > >>On May 12, 2004 at 22:56:45, margolies,marc wrote: >> >>>OAK RIDGE, Tenn., May 12 (UPI) -- Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham said >>>Wednesday the Oak Ridge National Laboratory will build the world's most powerful >>>supercomputer by 2007 >>>...... >>>The supercomputer will be housed in a new 170,000 square foot facility that >>>includes room for 400 staff members in 40,000 square feet of space. The machines >>>will run on 12 megawatts of power, which will be supplied by the Tennessee >>>Valley Authority. >> >>What sort of processors, how many, how much ram, etc? All this tells us is it'll >>be huge & use too much power. :) > >to know all news about supercomputers , go here -> >http://www.top500.org/main/news.php > >"The project submitted by Oak Ridge scientists envisions a computer capable of >sustaining 50 trillion calculations per second. " > > >And a recent new supercomp : >http://news.zdnet.co.uk/business/0,39020645,39154261,00.htm >" > California Digital, a 55-person company located on the outskirts of Silicon >Valley, created Thunder from 1,024 four-processor Itanium 2 servers to perform a >variety of tasks at the lab. > >Capable of performing 19.94 trillion operations per second, it would have ranked >second in the Top 500 list of supercomputers published bi-annually by the >University of Mannheim, the University of Tennessee and Lawrence Berkeley >National Laboratory, had it made the deadline >" they'll never get 20 tflop for their application. NASA upgraded from origin3800 (mips R14000) to itanium2 and only was 2 times faster where on paper it should be 5 times faster. NASA has floating point software but of course like majority of software it's not public domain. So itanium2 couldn't perform well at it.
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