Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 04:56:28 05/13/04
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On May 12, 2004 at 22:56:45, margolies,marc wrote: 400 staff members, 12 megawatt, and just slightly faster than earth, it all sounds stupid to me. by the way, it won't be the fastest supercomputer at all. Note that they probably didn't order what they can get for their money in 2007 either. clever salesmen promise something that's far under what they can deliver in 2007 for that price. Suppose you would order for 50 million the fastest opteron cluster available by then. Let's assume $6000 a node using myrinet pci-x. each node dual chip opteron. by then of course 1 chip has 4 cores. 4 processors * (50000k$/6k$) = 8333 nodes * 4 processors = 33333 processors. Right now 2.2Ghz single processor opteorn delivers 4 gflops. By then we have of course 0.065 at 4Ghz or so and delivering more a cycle. So 10 gflop is not unrealistic. 33333 * 10 gflop = 333333 gflop = 333 tflop. So just ordering 50 tflop for 50 million now they get ripped off. What they can deliver now for 50 million is of course not even close what they can deliver by then for 50 million. By the way IBM already is building a 1 pflop machine. >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.
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