[Ohio Hermit]

4.04 MEGAWATTS? What does it use for logic gates? 12AX7’s?

Herm

[HiTech RedNeck]

This is actually pretty darn reasonable for a massively parallel system of this size. Each GPU with a pair of processors is using about 500 watts. For each hundred watts it is getting several times the crunch power of a typical home PC that uses about a hundred watts.

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

ECC83’s

[rmlew]

4.04 MEGAWATTS? What does it use for logic gates? 12AX7’s?

"The supercomputer uses 7,168 NVIDIA Tesla M2050 GPUs (graphics processing units) and 14,336 Intel Xeon CPUs" Each NVIDIA Tesla M2050 uses 225W. I don't know which Xeon they are using. But each one uses 80, 95 or 130W. The Telsas use 1,612,800 watts. The Xeons use 1146880 (80W/cpu), 1,361,920 (95W/cpu), or 1,863,680 watts (130/cpu). They are probably using the last last as I assume they are using the Intel Xeon 7500. That 2 Megawats of power just for the CPUS and Teslas. Then add system boards, ram, hard drives, interconnects and networking, and above all heat dissapation and 4 MW is quite reasonable.