Makers of white-box supercomputers hit their stride

CNET ^ | May 10, 2004 | Michael Kanellos

[job]

Bush says Linux isn't good? Name a time and date, source, where you have documented Bush has even uttered the word Linux.

[antiRepublicrat]

And news has it they're replacing the towers with XServe G5s, which will run cooler, monitor their own hardware and maybe even give a little boost to the number crunching. If I were building a 1000+ machine cluster, I'd definitely be looking at the XServe G5 for the hardware monitoring alone.

[js1138]

I wonder how much it would cost to do this with AMD 64s.

[AppyPappy]

Bush2000.

[js1138]

I believe Cray is investigating AMD for a line of supercomputers.

[job]

I was just thinking about Cray.

When I was in grad school, there was a super computer built by Cray, which I think was located in north Dallas. Our school was interested in computers for seismic processing. We had heard that the Cray was so far ahead that it would only be used by the DOD, or other such agencies.

What has happened to Cray Computers? And where does Cray's first super computer stack up against my 1.6 Ghz computer?

[antiRepublicrat]

Bush says Linux isn't good? Name a time and date, source, where you have documented Bush has even uttered the word Linux.

Sorry, Bush2000, we just call him Bush in these threads. I doubt GW even knows what Linux is.

[general_re]

What has happened to Cray Computers?

They're still around.

And where does Cray's first super computer stack up against my 1.6 Ghz computer?

In terms of FLOPS - one of the more useless benchmarks around, to be sure - a 1.6 GHz P4 is around 10-15 times faster than the original Cray 1, and it doesn't even require its own room or HVAC system ;)

Part of that is a result of the fact that modern desktop processors like the G5 and P4 have incorporated some of the same vector processing elements that made supercomputers so fast for their day.

[DeFault User]

That's a lot of flops:

[John Lenin]

The next demoRAT president will sell the technology to Al Queda for a few campaign donations ...

[antiRepublicrat]

Cray appears set for a comeback with some pretty high speed computers, and a DARPA contract to build a petaflop computer by 2010. They do have an Opteron-based offering out for the low end of high performance computing, but it's definitely not your average Opteron machine.

[chilepepper]

Absolutely -- gamers do for hardware what pornography fans do for bandwidth and connectivity !!

[CyberCowboy777]

http://www.cray.com/products/systems/xd1/

[chilepepper]

Absolutely -- gamers do for hardware what pornography fans do for bandwidth and connectivity !!

[CyberCowboy777]

Gamers and OC'ers push hardware to the limit and ride software vendors (including MS) hard.

While a 3 year old PC will run Quickbooks 2001 just fine, my gaming PC at 5 months is out of date for the latest high performance standards set by my fellow gamers.

Of course no self respecting gamer would buy a pre-built PC from HP! LOL!

[Radioactive]

Yeah but it allows pop up ads to appear a million times faster. It also allows Gator software to infect itself at a rate far faster than any onter computer ever made.

And it uses windows xp proffesional....allowing hackers to enjoy the speed in which it has.

Bill Gates was quoted as saying this computer will allow us to figure out why our program is so buggy far faster than any other computer known. It will allow us to see our past mistakes at a rate that previously was hypothetical and build on them at speeds unheard of.

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filing

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ping em

[rw4site]

Take a look at the info of one I recently built. I don't do games, but I work with photos, videos, and sound. Just click on my screen name.