Roadrunner: 130,536 cores break the Petaflop barrier ( the world’s first hybrid supercomputer)

TgDaily ^ | Monday, June 09, 2008 12:13 | Wolfgang Gruener

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Old Bit twiddlers might find this of interest...from Gamespot:

The Cell Project at IBM Research, details inside.

[ShadowAce]

I can't tell if they're talking about processor saturation or network saturation.

Either way, I have no idea. :)

[MD_Willington_1976]

and the super computer market, latest one from IBM has a whack of Opterons and Cells...

http://forums.amd.com/forum/index.cfm?forumid=1

Drop on by the forums...

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

May be n Numerical Analysis term....found this:

A Theoretical Introduction to Numerical Analysis (Hardcover)

***********************EXCERPT*****************

presents the general methodology and principles of numerical analysis, illustrating the key concepts using numerical methods from real analysis, linear algebra, and differential equations.

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Explains the most fundamental and universal concepts, including error, efficiency, complexity, stability, and convergence. Addresses advance topics, such as intrinsic accuracy limits, saturation of numerical methods by smoothness, and......

Never studied this area of Math,...stayed with Foundations...like Topology...

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Thanks...I have some AMD’s/...

[Psycho_Bunny]

Wow....they probably need 350,000 watts just to power the CPUs.

[InterceptPoint]

According to IBM, Roadrunner has the floating point performance of about 100,000 notebooks.

Now the question is: Will Steve Jobs ever build a machine as powerful as this and sell it for $2500?

Per Moore's Law, the answer is probably not but possibly.

Moore's Law tells us that processing power doubles every 18 months. That's a lot of "times twos" to get to 100,000. In fact it takes about 16 or 17 of them so Jobs would still have to be on the job 25 years from now in 2033. That's not likely but possible.

I can't wait. It will probably be running OS XX

[Straight Vermonter]

No idea.

[TiberiusClaudius]

I turned down a job offer about 6 years ago to work on, if not this very project, a sister project in the same group in Poughkeepsie. Oh, well.

[SunkenCiv]

> not only the first hybrid supercomputer using Cell processors, but also the first commercial system to exceed a performance of 1 PFlops

Thanks Ernest.

[texas booster]

Latest update from 300,000 (!) computers and PS3s all folding for science at the Folding@Home project.

All of these systems together slightly beat the Roadrunner system.

Client statistics by OS

OS Type	Current TFLOPS*	Active CPUs	Total CPUs
Windows	189	198529	2043258
Mac OS X/PowerPC	7	8536	116294
Mac OS X/Intel	26	8500	50868
Linux	69	40433	306753
GPU	133	1930	8605
PLAYSTATION®3	1510	53560	535096
Total	1934	311488	3060874

[Drango]

All of these systems together slightly beat the Roadrunner system.

LOL...We b bad.

Proud 2 b foldin'.

http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/team_summary.php?s=&t=36120

[Straight Vermonter]

I’ve noticed that our folding team is slipping a little. I’m sure FR is busier than usual since it is an election year. Maybe we should do another appeal to FReepers to join the team.

[antiRepublicrat]

Our interconnects are about a million times slower than Roadrunner’s, but our power in numbers is huge. I believe F@H is in the Guinness Book of World Records as the most powerful distributed computer, and that’s mainly because of the PS3s.

[SunkenCiv]

cell supercomputer site:freerepublic.com

Google

[bmwcyle]

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