High-End Computing Capability?

[Frank Jr.]

How would you like to work on or play with this? Pleiades Supercomputer

 

[rockymtnhigh]

Not even certain what I would do with it.

But yeah, pretty cool. Or perhaps, really hot, as that sucker must require some serious juice, and put out some major heat!

 

[Ilya]

182 racks (11,648 nodes, two Intel Xeon processors per node)
1.315 Pflop/s peak cluster
Total cores: 111,104
Total memory: 185 TB

I think that should be enough to run this forum!

 

[Frank Jr.]

Not even certain what I would do with it.

Pretty much anything you wanted....

I would not want to be held responsible for maintaining that system though. I am lucky to keep this junk I have up and running Maybe Ilya could. ​

By the way, what is a Pflop? Somehow I do not think I have that capability.. (lol)​

 

[Ilya]

I would not want to be held responsible for maintaining that system though. I am lucky to keep this junk I have up and running Maybe Ilya could.

No thanks! But I would be curious to check inside those cages!

By the way, what is a Pflop?

Pflop/s:
(PETA FLoating point OPerations per Second) One quadrillion (10^15) floating point operations per second. That's a lot!!!

 

[Ilya]

By the way, only 10 systems in the World are known to achieve the petaflop/s performance: the U.S. has five; Japan and China have two each, and France has one.
The most powerful computer in the World is currently the K Computer at the RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science (AICS) in Kobe, Japan. It has 68544 SPARC64 VIIIfx CPUs, each with eight cores, for a total of 548,352 cores. It does more than 8 pflops!

http://www.top500.org/lists/2011/06/press-release

 

[charper1]

Not even certain what I would do with it.

But yeah, pretty cool. Or perhaps, really hot, as that sucker must require some serious juice, and put out some major heat!

I would play CIV V and facebook! LOL j/k

 

[Kevinw]

I could score some major F@H points in a big hurry hehe