Details of Va Tech Supercomputer Project
According to the talk, the timeframe on the entire project was relatively short, with initial plans starting in March 2003. Initial negotiations were begun with Dell, IBM and AMD, but costs remained too high. In fact, the first Virginia Tech heard of the new PowerMac G5s was on their announcement day at WWDC (June 23rd).
Varadarajan met with Apple within the week and the deal was made. (Of interest, the purchase was actually made through the Apple Store.) Initial machines came with the stock Mac OS X 10.2.7, with plans to upgrade to Panther shortly.
Final plans for the cluster will be made freely available, and requests have already been coming in. Varadarjan says, "Expect to see a lot more G5 clusters."
Many more details available at MacDevCenter.
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woulda been fun to hold in your hand, just for giggles.
1100 - unreal :)
Originally posted by Mudbug
man, i would have liked to of seen the auto-generated invoice from the Apple Store for that...
woulda been fun to hold in your hand, just for giggles.
1100 - unreal :)
uhh, you mean one of these:
Varadarajan reported that "our latest numbers are 9.555 tera and we still have more tricks left. We are hoping for another 10 percent boost to become the first academic machine to cross 10 tera. The last ratings put us at number three worldwide."
sweet! 10.5 Tflops!
Can you imagine when someone copies this and makes a G5 cluster with new 3GHz coming out next yr!!
But that really explains the reason for awhile no one could get G5 2GHz since most them went to Va Tech.
http://macslash.org/article.pl?sid=03/10/28/2357235&mode=thread
direct quote: "each processor can deliver 2 DP unites * 2 flops/cycle = 8GFlops. That's more than one Cray X1 Node. In a desktop. (sh*t.)"
I bleeted out the profanity. I assume he means "golly that's amazing", rather then "that's the performance I'd expect from excrement.
I find that surprising that they were willing to swith to the g5 on such short notice
not that I mind
AT ALL :)
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