Cray XT Jaguar: 45,000 QC Opterons

[gxsolace]

Cray is no stranger to the supercomputing world — it’s practically the pioneer in the field. This week, the department of energy (DOE) announced that it has completed the setup of a new Cray XT Jaguar supercomputer that breaks all world records, claiming

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[Jim_L9]

Can I get one for home use ;-)

 

[igot1forya]

What? No Crysis numbers?

 

[Guest]

So what kind of Crysis marks does it get?

Will I require a water-cooling setup or will air cooling in my garage be enough?

 

[joex444]

Slight correction: 362TB is not 362,000GB. This beast actually has 362,000GB -- that figure is correct. But you need to divide in base 2 to get to TB, not base 10. So this is actually 2^(-10)*362000 TB = 353.5TB.

And since the DoE has this, what's the power consumption?

 

[Pei-chen]

Isn't 578 terabytes about the same as IBM's current top performer?

 

[jrabbitb]

If they wanted/needed more power could they OC this thing or is it already tweaked?

 

[cablechewer]

In 30-40 years this will all fit in the form factor of an iPhone...

 

[fatty35]

That would make a nice folding farm

 

[2GooDrumr]

My poor 3500+...
Psh, I still love it

 

[KupuAnd1]

Can they get me the user and pass so I can get in Remotely and play some games? Or watch some movies?

 

[Guest]

lol soooooooo i can browse porn how quick?

 

[jadedgamerx]

The supposed top speed of this is no faster than IBM's roadrunner 1 qaudrillion = 1 petaflop = Roadrunner's current speed. All Cray has done is prove they can hit 1 petaflop without using the cell processor (playstation 3)/operteron setup and just run pure opteron's instead. Whoopity do.

 

[Mucke]

Will they upgrade to Shanghais next week?

 

[Guest]

Holy SHITTTTTTTTTTTT! Screw Shanghais - go Core i7!. I wanna see its performance on Crysis and Far Cry 2.... at once

 

[jaragon13]

[citation][nom]Mucke[/nom]Will they upgrade to Shanghais next week?[/citation]
Haha,it's nice they do this all before the new processors come out....
They should of done this in 2009,and they would of beat them by a long shot.

 

[Shadow703793]

Now let's see this thing run LinPak

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LINPACK

 

[zodiacfml]

i have yet to see a supercomputer using server chips from intel especially now that they have the nehalem architecture.

 

[tipoo]

DAMN IT! the IBM Roadrunner i just bought is obsolete now! lol.

 

[kschoche]

[citation][nom]Mucke[/nom]Will they upgrade to Shanghais next week?[/citation]

Wouldnt be surprised if they got early releases of the Shanghais. Afterall, when this machine was announced *years* ago, it was designed to have quad-core opterons even before AMD had a quad-core chip out.

 

[Mennoknight]

Man! How do you back up 10 petabytes? 200,000 dual platter Blu-Ray discs for a backup? Oh man. Better get a 6x burner.

And I hope it has like a Radeon 4870x2048 for graphics...

 

[tipoo]

you (the author) have a dual quad core machine? is it skulltrail or the Mac Pro? review it!

 

[geoffs]

360,000GB RAM and 45,000 CPU, gives 8GB per CPU, which is one likely configuration. Maybe it's 16GB per pair of CPUs.

I don't know where the other 2,000GB comes in (or if 362TB is incorrect or a rounding anomaly caused by mixing 1000 and 1024). Perhaps 128-256 of the CPUs are "super-nodes" with 16GB+.

Maybe they can lend me the extra 2TB, doesn't really sound like they need it

 

[antilycus]

and it would stay take forever to render a movie on it...

 

[Guest]

So it should be ok to run notepad and calc side by side then.......