Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 05:23:41 05/14/04
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On May 13, 2004 at 23:58:43, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >On May 13, 2004 at 12:46:29, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On May 13, 2004 at 07:47:32, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: >> >>>On May 13, 2004 at 03:09:22, Joshua Shriver wrote: >>> >>>>Question is... are they going to run a parallel based chess engine on it :) >>> >>>Only diep would run at it, and they didn't approach me. >> >>I can't _possibly_ imagine why "they don't approach you." >> >>Also you do know this is a cluster? Not a NUMA box? >> >>Of course you did. >> >>I'm sure your program does _great_ on a message-passing cluster... > >May i remind you your message passing cluster you get there has a faster one way >pingpong latency than origin3800 at 512 processors.... May I remind you that NUMA and clusters are _two_ different things??? Or is it pointless??? Clusters have _zero_ shared memory. > >> >>> AFAIK their only plan is >>>to build a 50 tflop machine for 50 million dollar and the rest is unclear. >> >>Nothing is unclear at all. Oak Ridge is one of our national labs, just like Los >>Alamos, Lawrence-Livermore, etc. They always strive to "push the envelope" >>although this world of "clusters" is not as interesting as the old days of "real >>super-computers"... They have applications that run for months at a time. And >>they'd like to increase the size of the data but that would push the >>applications into years of run-time. Faster processing demands is what is >>driving this. >> >>But anyone could find that out by looking around or asking...
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