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Subject: Re: Personal Super Computer

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 16:48:50 05/05/05

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On May 05, 2005 at 17:07:09, Andreas Guettinger wrote:

>On May 05, 2005 at 11:43:40, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On May 05, 2005 at 05:45:07, Martin Andersen2 wrote:
>>
>>>Hello!
>>>
>>>Orion is shipping a nice small "supercomputer" which has 96 CPU's and
>>>a peak performance of 230 Gflops. It costs only $100000 :-)
>>>
>>>How would an optimized Crafty do on such a thing ? Would it be stronger
>>>than Hydra ?
>>>
>>>Text and pictures here: http://www.orionmulti.com/products/specs_ds96
>>>
>>>
>>>Martin Andersen
>>
>>
>>This is a cluster box.  Currently crafty will not run on a cluster.  I hope to
>>change this over the coming year however...
>
>On what kind of cluster will you test?
>
>regards
>Andy


We are buying a cluster of dual opteron boxes, but each opteron will be a
dual-core processor.  So we should have 64 nodes with 4 cpus per node, probably
using both gigabit ethernet and some myrinet hardware we have sitting around.



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