NASA announces world's fastest supercomputer
NASA announces world's fastest supercomputer
Posted Oct 26, 2004 23:53 UTC (Tue) by dcg (subscriber, #9198)In reply to: NASA announces world's fastest supercomputer by JoeBuck
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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.
Posted Oct 27, 2004 0:50 UTC (Wed)
by emkey (guest, #144)
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Still, an impressive accomplishment.
Posted Oct 27, 2004 5:16 UTC (Wed)
by gurulabs (subscriber, #10753)
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Posted Oct 27, 2004 7:36 UTC (Wed)
by pointwood (guest, #2814)
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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.NASA announces world's fastest supercomputer
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
This should answer your question: http://news.com.com/Two+records+in+one+day+for+SGI+superc...NASA announces world's fastest supercomputer