Meet Gordon, the World's First SSD-Based Supercomputer

[exfileme]

Gordon is now ranked as #48 on the official Top 500 list of the fastest supercomputers in the world.

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[Pyree]

Well, we can now use this as part of an evidence to debunk myth about MLC SSD's unreliability and lack of longevity. Well done San Diego Supercomputer Center, an excellent choice of storage hardware.

 

[darkchazz]

Well I don't know about the specs, but if it can play Crysis then it's good enough...

 

[lassik]

Wow, $20m, reading the article I was expecting it to be much more!

 

[de5_Roy]

i wonder what kind of processors it uses.
can it plaaaaaaayyyyyyyyy metro 2033 at max?

 

[Guest]

I want this in my room guys. Wow. Absolutely incredible.

 

[stingstang]

Dear Gordon, as I am sure you are reading this, and everything anyone else is typing on the internet, I believe you to be the superior being, and would gladly serve you and do your bidding.
0k gyz, w3 h4v3 2 t3a/\/\ ^ 2 b34t 7h15 7h1ng.

 

[Tmanishere]

When I think of Gordon, Gordon Freeman comes to mind. Not Flash Gordon.

 

[de5_Roy]

comissioner gordon
or batgirl...

 

[rosen380]

"a theoretical peak performance of 280+ Teraflops per second"

Teraflops is 'trillions of floating point operations per second', so no need for 'per second' following it.

 

[Cryio]

I thought of Gordon Freeman all the time I've been reading the article

 

[Maxor127]

I think of Gordon Shumway.

 

[sa1nt]

I would love to render with that thing...

 

[Goldengoose]

Dear Santa....

 

[cookoy]

i guess it would take a week to complete the daily backup of the data

 

[lamorpa]

[citation][nom]rosen380[/nom]"a theoretical peak performance of 280+ Teraflops per second"Teraflops is 'trillions of floating point operations per second', so no need for 'per second' following it.[/citation]
Maybe it is per second per second (seconds squared) as in an acceleration value. It starts out at idle then accelerates up to full speed!

 

[Pyree]

[citation][nom]Pyree[/nom]Well, we can now use this as part of an evidence to debunk myth about MLC SSD's unreliability and lack of longevity. Well done San Diego Supercomputer Center, an excellent choice of storage hardware.[/citation]
What is so offensive about my comment?

 

[tasrill]

[citation][nom]rosen380[/nom]"a theoretical peak performance of 280+ Teraflops per second"Teraflops is 'trillions of floating point operations per second', so no need for 'per second' following it.[/citation]

Maybe they plan on starting the singularity with it so have to put processing in terms of acceleration

 

[pubic_lice]

Having this in your room sounds cool, until you see your electricity bill. >>

 

[daggs]

[citation][nom]darkchazz[/nom]Well I don't know about the specs, but if it can play Crysis then it's good enough...[/citation]
nope it cannot as it doesn't have decent gpus and the gpus cannot be aggregated.
[citation][nom]de5_roy[/nom]i wonder what kind of processors it uses.can it plaaaaaaayyyyyyyyy metro 2033 at max?[/citation]
sandy bridge i7-2600 servers equivalent

 

[clonazepam]

Named Gordon (as in Flash Gordon)

Damn, killed my daydream about Gordon Freeman, but Flash, in this case, make a lot more sense.

Maybe they can use this to help try and decipher the Mammoth DNA, just please don't actually try to make one.

If I ever win the lottery, a really big one, where I could build one of these off less than half of one year's check, I'd totally do it. Then I'd have an open invitation for people to submit their proposed use of it. Oh the power...

 

[quorthon1204]

"That’s a lot of pop0rn."

Fixed it for ya

 

[anonymous_user]

[citation][nom]Pyree[/nom]Well, we can now use this as part of an evidence to debunk myth about MLC SSD's unreliability and lack of longevity.[/citation]
The Intel 710 SSDs are meant for the enterprise though. Once we can get enterprise-grade reliability in consumer SSDs then I'm all ears.

 

[jwuorenmaa]

[arkchazz :

Well I don't know about the specs, but if it can play Crysis then it's good enough...


nope it cannot as it doesn't have decent gpus and the gpus cannot be aggregated.
de5_roy :

i wonder what kind of processors it uses.can it plaaaaaaayyyyyyyyy metro 2033 at max?


sandy bridge i7-2600 servers equivalent][/quote]

It uses 8 core 2.6GHZ Intel Xeon E5-2670 processors.

 

[nikorr]

HDD's are expensive nowadays : )