Supernode Expands up to 128 Cores, 2TB RAM

[exfileme]

The bullx supernodes are designed for engineering calculations, physics simulation, and more.

Supernode Expands up to 128 Cores, 2TB RAM : Read more

 

[Simple11]

So how good is the reg on these servers? I'm in the market for some CS servers

 

[pbrigido]

Price?

...not that I would be able to afford it anyways.

 

[LATTEH]

THats a lot of ram O_O


What program would be able to use all of it?

 

[Ehsan w]

damn 2 Terabytes of ram....
Hmmmm Ram....

 

[frozenlead]

We ate 128GB of memory doing a CFD sim the other day...and I thought that was a lot..

 

[itadakimasu]

128 cores... 2TB of ram... But does it run crysis?

 

[WheelsOfConfusion]

Link is dead right now.

What exactly does the supercap do to make the power supply more efficient? Just smooth out spikes and dips? Supply the high startup current to get the fans running?

 

[kelfen]

you could load your OS and all applications into ram making it so speedy

 

[balister]

THats a lot of ram O_O


What program would be able to use all of it?

Usually, when dealing with physical processes, like what happens with a nuclear weapon, you'd use what's known as Monte Carlo codes. Monte Carlo codes model highly random sitations (thus the name Monte Carlo cause you're rolling a die to see what happens effectively) like neutron scatter/absorbtion through a medium (in this case a neutron through say Uranium or Lithium Hydride). In essence, it's a way to test how powerful a nuclear weapon can be without actually setting it off (or even to look at how air travels over a foil like that of a wing). Because you are modelling such a complex system, imagine having to follow trillions of particles over a very short period of time (like nanoseconds in the case of a nuclear weapon), the programs can get quite involved. So when you're getting to situations that in depth, it takes a lot computing power.

 

[Guest]

One day this will be standard desktop stuff- save the Xeon and multiple-sockets. By then crapware and OS bloat will also have reached epic proportions so we won't notice the difference anyway : )

 

[lutel]

but will it blend ?

 

[balister]

[citation][nom]lutel[/nom]but will it blend ?[/citation]

It'll do more then blend. "Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light."

 

[drowned]

Yes, there are certain processes that can and do use that much ram.: anything that involves analyzing an EXTREME amount of data. Take the LHC...in 10 GB of data (relatively small because all the detectors spit out terabytes of data per second), there's 60,000 events containing hundreds of particles with each particle having hundreds of parameters (momentum, energy, etc). Whenever I run some analysis on the data it needs to load up all 60,000 events...and I promptly max out use the 3 GB of ram available to me. In case anyone is wondering, even a relatively simple analysis requires about an hour-hour.half to run over that many events. It's not so much cpu intensive as it is memory and hard drive intensive.

In terms of engineering I imagine simulating a building collapsing or something would require a lot of RAM as well.

 

[kevikom]

Big deal. If you get an HP blade chassis using the 2x220 Blades( 2 nodes per blade each with 2 6 core processors) that have 5670 processors you can get 384 cores and 3TB of memory inside of 10U of space connected with infiniband.

And yes I have seen them sold to places with a lot of funding that like to smash particles together and se what happens

 

[jonnyboyC]

that's pretty crazy you put up windows 7 and superfetch proceed to place your entire hard drive on cached standby

 

[lauxenburg]

The RAM itself probably costs more than my car.

 

[Trialsking]

[citation][nom]itadakimasu[/nom]128 cores... 2TB of ram... But does it run crysis?[/citation]
Now your dual 5970's are the bottleneck!

 

[Gin Fushicho]

Now THIS is the kind of stuff I always love seeing at toms. Very interesting indeed, it'd be nice to see what it's used for.

 

[eddieroolz]

Man, that's more RAM than my entire array of hard drives put together!

 

[Impulse Fire911]

wow, to cool that thing you wouldnt need liquid nitrogen, you would need liquid jesus

 

[czar1020]

Umm it that picture the server? Why in gods name would you have a 2U on the right and 1U on the left. Makes no sense, maybe somewhere to stack papers.

 

[justinjkiss]

windows 14 - 24gb ram min 48gb recommended, 24 cores min, 20tb min....

better the hardware gets more the OS bloats

 

[justinjkiss]

[citation][nom]czar1020[/nom]Umm it that picture the server? Why in gods name would you have a 2U on the right and 1U on the left. Makes no sense, maybe somewhere to stack papers.[/citation]

READ THE ARTICLE DUMMY
"The S6010, seen in the image to the right, features L-shaped 1.5U drawers--one upside-down on top of the other--to form a 3U drawer that can house a 8 or 16-processor configuration."

 

[czar1020]

skimming ftl