Tuesday, March 10, 2009

HPC Giggle Factor

Joint think-tank from Russia and Belarus developed new high-density blade for SKIF supercomputers.

New blade will have capacity of 0.5-5 peta-flops, in other words, it will perform up to 5x1015 operations per second – 10-100 times more than existing SKIF supercomputer can perform.

New supercomputer’s blade hosts two multi-core processors Intel Xeon; memory with capacity between 6 and 12 gigabytes and unit for communication with other boards – all packed with very high density. Such density is impossible with common coolers, and scientists suggested a solution.


.5 to 5 petaflops from two Intel Xeons....

This is one of those point and laugh moments, folks.

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