Wistrik Posted June 27, 2007 Share Posted June 27, 2007 http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=7853 ... Four IBM PowerPC 450 processors running at 850 MHz are integrated on a single Blue Gene/P chip, with each chip capable of 13.6 billion operations per second. A two-foot-by-two-foot board containing 32 of these chips churns out 435 billion operations every second, making it more powerful than a typical, 40-node cluster based on two-core commodity processors. Thirty-two of the compact boards comprise the 6-foot-high racks. Each rack runs at 13.9 trillion operations per second, 1,300 times faster than today's fastest home PC. The one-petaFLOP Blue Gene/P supercomputer configuration is a 294,912-processor, 72-rack system harnessed to a high-speed, optical network. The Blue Gene/P system can be scaled to an 884,736-processor, 216-rack cluster to achieve three-petaflop performance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cantousent Posted June 27, 2007 Share Posted June 27, 2007 Unfortunately, I think it's a little expensive for my tastes. Just a little. :D Seriously, this would be wonderful, but where we, mere mortals, put it? Fionavar's Holliday Wishes to all members of our online community: Happy Holidays Join the revelry at the Obsidian Plays channel:Obsidian Plays Remembering tarna, Phosphor, Metadigital, and Visceris. Drink mead heartily in the halls of Valhalla, my friends! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bokishi Posted June 27, 2007 Share Posted June 27, 2007 http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=7853 ... Four IBM PowerPC 450 processors running at 850 MHz are integrated on a single Blue Gene/P chip, with each chip capable of 13.6 billion operations per second. A two-foot-by-two-foot board containing 32 of these chips churns out 435 billion operations every second, making it more powerful than a typical, 40-node cluster based on two-core commodity processors. Thirty-two of the compact boards comprise the 6-foot-high racks. Each rack runs at 13.9 trillion operations per second, 1,300 times faster than today's fastest home PC. The one-petaFLOP Blue Gene/P supercomputer configuration is a 294,912-processor, 72-rack system harnessed to a high-speed, optical network. The Blue Gene/P system can be scaled to an 884,736-processor, 216-rack cluster to achieve three-petaflop performance Current 3DMark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samm Posted June 28, 2007 Share Posted June 28, 2007 Well, they had to counter Sun with its planned AMD Barcelona-based Supercomputer reaching 2petaflops... link Citizen of a country with a racist, hypocritical majority Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taks Posted June 28, 2007 Share Posted June 28, 2007 hmm, the PPC450 is a new architecture originally slated for comm/network apps. curious choice. i've not read much about it. taks comrade taks... just because. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meshugger Posted June 28, 2007 Share Posted June 28, 2007 I haven't even heard about this architecture before. Still, very impressive. "Some men see things as they are and say why?""I dream things that never were and say why not?"- George Bernard Shaw"Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man."- Friedrich Nietzsche "The amount of energy necessary to refute bull**** is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it." - Some guy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taks Posted June 29, 2007 Share Posted June 29, 2007 it's brand new. FPGAs have the PPC405, though i've seen mention that this one, and the PPC440 (older brother i guess), are synthesizable for use in FPGAs. unfortunately, i cannot use it in the stuff i'm doing (which will reside in a large FPGA). i need too many multipliers. task comrade taks... just because. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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