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Date:         Fri, 16 Apr 2010 21:23:31 -0400
Reply-To:     Jim Akiba <syncrolist@BOSTIG.COM>
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From:         Jim Akiba <syncrolist@BOSTIG.COM>
Subject:      Re: Phrydae: Super-computer soon to use water-cooled system for
              heating occupants
In-Reply-To:  <C297A281-1C2C-4F20-8E61-93DCCE01D1EA@dragonhome.org>
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That's pretty awesome, so can you get us some time on jaguar? I bet our CAD animations would render in split seconds instead of hours... jaguar is only something like 30k+ times faster than our overclocked core i7 CAD machine here ha.

Jim Akiba

On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 8:27 PM, Rowan Tipton <uther@dragonhome.org> wrote:

> I've gotta brag a bit - we (I play with computers here at the > University of Tennessee and we manage ORNL) not only run the fastest > computer in the world we also have Kraken which is the fastest > University owned computer in the world and the third fastest overall. > Jaguar and Kraken sit across the hall from each other. > > r > > > On Apr 16, 2010, at 8:03 PM, John Rodgers wrote: > > Interesting article. It prompted me to look up Cray, Inc. >> >> From Wikipedia>>>> >> >> >>>As of November 2009^[update] >> <http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cray&action=edit> , the >> largest computer system Cray has delivered is the XT5 system at .^ >> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray#cite_note-nccs-jaguar-4> National >> Center for Computational Sciences at Oak Ridge National Laboratories. >> This system, with over 224,000 processing cores, is dubbed "Jaguar" >> and >> is the fastest computer in the world as measured by the LIN PACK >> benchmark with the speed of 1.75 petaflops.^ >> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray#cite_note-cnet-jaguar-6> It is also >> the fastest system available for open science and the first system to >> exceed a petaflops sustained performance on a 64-bit scientific >> application.<<< >> >> "Pedaflop" - One quadrillion floating point operations per second. >> 1,000,000,000,000,000/sec >> >> John Rodgers >> Clayartist and Moldmaker >> 88'GL VW Bus Driver >> Chelsea, AL >> Http://www.moldhaus.com >> >> >> On 4/16/2010 5:20 PM, Peter DiFalco wrote: >> >>> >>> http://www.livescience.com/technology/Water-Cooled-Supercomputers-Internet-100415.html >>> >>> FTA: "Since water and electronics don't mix, the coolant water in >>> Aquasar >>> does not ever directly touch the silicon computer chips themselves. >>> If a >>> leak should occur, internal sensors would shut the machine down >>> before >>> causing a short circuit." >>> >>> Hey, I wonder why they don't just let it set off a buzzer and make >>> white >>> smoke... >>> >>> "The tubes interspersed in Aquasar will link back to the primary >>> water >>> transportation network where some of the collected heat will then be >>> passively released back into the heating system of ETH Zurich." >>> >>> ....Which implies that the building's occupants will need to wear >>> their >>> earmuffs and overcoats until the programmers have had a chance to >>> drive the >>> supercomputer around the block for half an hour. >>> >>> The real question is whether they'll still have toasty feet even >>> while the >>> air conditioning's on in the summer. >>> >>> Happy Friday! >>> >>> >>> >>> > I remain, as always > YrLyl&ObdntSrvnt, > > r >


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