Intel's "Thunder" cluster- 20 TFLOPS
Well looks like Big Mac whould be recieving some competition.
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Damn.
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The Earth Simulator, however, cost about $600 million to build vs. about $20 million for a supercomputer that Intel is helping build at Lawrence Livermore Labs. That supercomputer, called Thunder, will be deployed for basic scientific research, including electro-magnetic modeling.
Intel said Thunder should be operational in January and should clock in at about 20 teraflops. The system will contain 3,840 Itanium processors and Intel believes it will be the world's second fastest supercomputer.
The Earth Simulator, however, cost about $600 million to build vs. about $20 million for a supercomputer that Intel is helping build at Lawrence Livermore Labs. That supercomputer, called Thunder, will be deployed for basic scientific research, including electro-magnetic modeling.
Intel said Thunder should be operational in January and should clock in at about 20 teraflops. The system will contain 3,840 Itanium processors and Intel believes it will be the world's second fastest supercomputer.
Damn.
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by this time next year, there will be a pile more Mac clusters.
Originally posted by Powerdoc
For Intel the only way to sell itaniums chips, is to buid clusters ...
...and thus make one air-conditioning supplier very happy
Originally posted by Placebo
Well looks like Big Mac whould be recieving some competition.
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Damn.
The reason the BigMac is in third place is because there wasn't enough money to add additional G5s to the cluster. I don't see why it wouldn't be possible to have a G5-based supercomputer in first place, given enough money.
http://news.com.com/2100-7337-5107422.html?tag=nl
However, it is quite interesting to see that chip for chip, the G5 is faster than the Itanium. It also costs less.
Itanium CPUs are kind of like AOL disks. Too much quantity, too little demand and a product that nobody really wants.
we shall see.