Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 09:48:32 05/13/04
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On May 13, 2004 at 08:03:17, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >On May 13, 2004 at 07:56:28, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: > >>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. > >400 staff members is of course too pathetic for words. 390 will be drinking >coffee. > >>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 $6000 a node using myrinet pci-x. >> >>each node dual chip opteron. >> >>by then of course 1 chip has 4 cores. > >1 node has 4 cores. Or 1 node will have N chips, each of which will probably have 2-4 cores depending on whether AMD delivers a 4-core opteron by then. > >>4 processors * (50000k$/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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