AMD-powered Jaguar is 'Fastest Supercomputer'

[Bluescreendeath]

[citation][nom]MustWarnOthers[/nom]To be honest, I doubt even this computer can run Crysis effectively. Judging by the fact that a 3 year old game still can't run at max settings on even some of the highest end consumer hardware, it's pretty obvious it's just a poorly coded piece of shit.[/citation]

Not efficient coding is one aspect. The main reason why PCs still can't run it is the game is still the best looking and the most graphically intensive game ever created. Crysis 2 with the Cryengine 3 will actually be a downgrade so consoles can play it. And technically, the new dx11 ATI video cards CAN max out Crysis. A single ATI 5870 can play Crysis at 1920x1080 with everything set to Very High.

 

[Guest]

Can it play Crysis though?

No that joke never gets old. Hahahahahaha

 

[christop]

The Crysis joke is played out let it go!!! Big props to AMD!!!

 

[dtm4trix]

[citation][nom]socrates047[/nom]this just sounds awsome, hopefully it is used for the good of humanity. [/citation]

I think they use these things to run nuclear explosion simulations to keep the US stockpile of weapons up to date.

 

[Ehsan w]

[citation][nom]BlueScreenDeath[/nom]Not efficient coding is one aspect. The main reason why PCs still can't run it is the game is still the best looking and the most graphically intensive game ever created. Crysis 2 with the Cryengine 3 will actually be a downgrade so consoles can play it. And technically, the new dx11 ATI video cards CAN max out Crysis. A single ATI 5870 can play Crysis at 1920x1080 with everything set to Very High.[/citation]

that's really nice
but my laptop with a nvidia 9600m gt can play it at that res
the question is how many fps does it get?

 

[mr_tuel]

"The whole system has 300TB of memory and 10PB of hard disc space"

2GB per core*224,162 cores=448.324 TB of memory. Not sure what the actual amount is, but that is what the given data actually adds up to.

Good for AMD and Cray. I am interested in the kind of models and simulations that this beast runs...

Makes my i7 look like a 486 lol!!!

 

[falchard]

Super Computers. The main market of AMD CPUs currently.

 

[wildwell]

So much for that Chinese piece of junk Tom's reported on a few weeks ago.

 

[Guest]

[citation][nom]zingam[/nom]4004???[/citation]

Basic gradeschool math fail:

2GB*224,162 = 448,324GB

1 TB = 1,024 GB thus 448,324GB = 437.816406 TB

(Yes, he was wrong too, but didn't fail like you did)

 

[Aoster87]

Chuck Norris's computing power still far exceeds this.

 

[crabsncancer]

Realistically speaking, a computer like this would be a great backend SQL host for a large ecommerce site such as Amazon or google. Instead of having a host of thousands of load-balanced microcomputers, we can start going back to 1 large macro/supercomputer for serving.

Also, another thing something like this would be used for is Virtual Computers; one Supercomputer hosting Virtual Spaces. This would be infinitely more practical than how IT runs today... our company has over 300 servers. We have more than 10 servers just dedicated to Exchange!

 

[amdgamer666]

[citation][nom]andboomer[/nom]Basic gradeschool math fail:2GB*224,162 = 448,324GB1 TB = 1,024 GB thus 448,324GB = 437.816406 TB(Yes, he was wrong too, but didn't fail like you did)[/citation]

And you fail the most. He was clearly referencing the Intel 486 and was saying that it made his i7 look like an Intel 4004.

 

[gayan]

I wonder how the SETI@HOME program compares to this? Any ideas guys??

 

[XD_dued]

[citation][nom]mathiasschnell[/nom]"petaflops per second"Redundant. FLOPS = FLoating point Operations Per Second.[/citation]

No no silly, it's accelerating XD

 

[carl0ski]

when will we start seeing GPU powered super computers

a lone Radeon 5850 is about 2Pflops ?

 

[apache_lives]

how many years till a single chip will out perform this?

 

[viometrix]

can it run GTA IV?

 

[ajcroteau]

They probably cheaped out on the video card with an Intel GMA 9000 POS chipset... or something similar

 

[Ehsan w]

[citation][nom]ajcroteau[/nom]They probably cheaped out on the video card with an Intel GMA 9000 POS chipset... or something similar[/citation]

they don't use a monitor, it's more like an 8-bit screen that gives numbers
like cheap calculators

 

[SAL-e]

[citation][nom]VioMeTriX[/nom]can it run GTA IV?[/citation]
Can GTA IV run on Linux?

 

[tburns1]

Yeah, but will it run the dramatic chipmunk on YouTube?

 

[paradiddle]

Well, the only reason this was done with AMD chips is because they were free. Intel actually sells their chips and wasn't willing to donate them for this project.

 

[Raidur]

@ Zingam

Both! Crysis still has the all around best graphics out if you ask me, the detail on that game is mind-blowing. BUT it could be optimized better. We will be seeing games with better graphics that run much better very soon.

Don't forget Crysis came out in 2007!

@article

Good god AMD!

This just in, Intel's 1.5Billion is spent! =P

 

[ohim]

[citation][nom]mr_tuel[/nom]"The whole system has 300TB of memory and 10PB of hard disc space"2GB per core*224,162 cores=448.324 TB of memory. Not sure what the actual amount is, but that is what the given data actually adds up to.Good for AMD and Cray. I am interested in the kind of models and simulations that this beast runs...Makes my i7 look like a 486 lol!!![/citation]not so long ago was an article about the chinese supercomputer that is a hybrid between intel CPUs and AMD GPUs and compared to a household PC the figures was something like this: what that supercomputer does in 1 second a normal PC will take 160 years to compute, so all things said these means that the fastest supercomputer in the world would do in 1 second probably more calculations than your your I7 could have done since the time of Cesar till now

 

[mapesdhs]

Some relevant info...

Many scientific apps do not scale well beyond 32 CPUs/cores, or so
I was told during my training course for Cray systems. It depends
on how well a task can be parallelised. Sometimes a single shared
memory system like Altix is far more effective when data access
patterns are very mixed & complicated between nodes and RAM,
other times a cluster makes more sense when a task can be easily
split into smaller units. Lots of other issues aswell - cache/RAM
behaviour, data I/O requirements, etc. (eg. ANSYS runs often
need massive amounts of RAM but not many CPUs).

Some tasks marry better onto different architectures such as
Vector machines. It varies.

It's much more likely that the Jaguar system is used to run
multiple different jobs at the same time, partitioned into
numerous separate OS instances (some variant of Linux I expect).

Typical applications include cosmology, weather modeling, QCD,
CFD, GIS, and yes modelling nuke explosions, though actually
other common tasks for that programme include things such as
modelling corrosion, wear & tear, etc. - what happens to the
casing after 30 years? Is it still reliable? Problems such as
how to design the electrical systems so they can withstand the
radiation, circuit redundancy, simulation, that sort of thing.
Modeling a bang is a small part of the whole approach.

In reality, 80% efficiency on systems such as this is a solid
achievement, if possible. Usually though the logical approach
is not to even try and run codes which would be better suited
to a different architecture, or just use it to run multiple
different tasks.

I've always had a soft spot for shared memory systems (because
they can handle just about anything) but it's hard to scale
them beyond a few thousand CPUs and cost-wise they're not the
best choice for tasks which can be easily split up such as
rendering, unless custom sw is written to exploit the
architecture properly (which is what ILM used to do with its
32-CPU Origin2000 systems). Still, it's no less fun watching a
32-CPU system doing a Blender render.

I doubt Jaguar's top spot will last long though.

Also, lookout for SGI's new UV system being announced soon (AFAIK,
it's an i7 XEON NUMA shared-memory design - I hope so anyway),
and meanwhile we should start seeing large Nehalem clusters
appearing which ought to boost performance by a huge margin
given the big improvements available over the older XEON series.

Ian.