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NASA announces world's fastest supercomputerNASA announces world's fastest supercomputerPosted Oct 26, 2004 21:29 UTC (Tue) by emkey (guest, #144)In reply to: NASA announces world's fastest supercomputer by gurulabs Parent article: NASA announces world's fastest supercomputer
The use of the word "stunt" is interesting. Anyone know what this is refering to? I suspect I know but don't want to venture a guess for various reasons.
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NASA announces world's fastest supercomputer Posted Oct 26, 2004 22:04 UTC (Tue) by vondo (guest, #256) [Link] I think it's a reference to IBM, who's latest announcement of a super computer was something like: "We built this node of a system, and if you take n * 1000 of them and hook them together, you will get the fastest computer ever. BTW, no one has ordered such a system and we certainly haven't built one."
NASA announces world's fastest supercomputer Posted Oct 26, 2004 22:44 UTC (Tue) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330) [Link] Actually, I believe that Lawrence Livermore Lab has ordered a version of the IBM BlueGene/L machine that should pass the SGI/NASA machine when it is completed. So yes, someone has ordered one.
NASA announces world's fastest supercomputer Posted Oct 26, 2004 23:07 UTC (Tue) by emkey (guest, #144) [Link] Thats my understanding as well based on the following...
http://www.serverwatch.com/news/article.php/3416891
And the IBM benchmark was apparently on 1/10th of the total system to be delivered.
NASA announces world's fastest supercomputer Posted Oct 26, 2004 23:53 UTC (Tue) by DiegoCG (guest, #9198) [Link] According to http://www.sgi.com/company_info/newsroom/press_releases/2... , they only used 16 of the 20 Altix boxes, or 3072 less processors. I guess they could get higher figures.
NASA announces world's fastest supercomputer Posted Oct 27, 2004 0:50 UTC (Wed) by emkey (guest, #144) [Link] I'm curious as to why they only used 16. People generally pull out all the stops to get the highest possible numbers. The fact that 16 is a power of 2 makes me wonder if there is some sort of hardware/software issue that prevents them from using the full system.
Still, an impressive accomplishment.
NASA announces world's fastest supercomputer Posted Oct 27, 2004 5:16 UTC (Wed) by gurulabs (subscriber, #10753) [Link] Why not announce as soon as you've broken the record vs waiting another X days before the whole thing is installed.
NASA announces world's fastest supercomputer Posted Oct 27, 2004 7:36 UTC (Wed) by pointwood (subscriber, #2814) [Link] This should answer your question: http://news.com.com/Two+records+in+one+day+for+SGI+superc...
:)
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