i think in the future we should do survey of Super Pc (personal computer) which runs at home...must be really fun to gather all the pc freaks around the world showing of their pc performance...

End of the month i am project manage implementing of a system using cluster 4 way quad core server.

Spec (x2 on all spec below since cluster)
-4 x Quad Core
-16 GB RAM

-10 TB SAN
-41TB NAS

^^'

That's the most super comp i have seen to this date in my life...

This post has been edited by chamelion: Aug 7 2007, 04:56 PM

Cool,16GB of RAM? Each cluster has 4GB of RAM?

Heheh, total up can get how much bandwidth? Reach 1 Teraflops ah?

yup. each processor 4gb ram.

What operating system does the server use?

IBM is going crazy, i wonder if their air-con down for a while only, how is the room temperature, and if u can convert the super computer that use by military jet fighter and apache helicopter to conventional home use PC, then should be able to match up with the IBM 131k processor...

Rofl you nerds crack me up.

wow..nice spec..my spec by the end of this month is :-

Server (2 servers)
4 x Quad core
16 GB RAM
1.5 TB Hard disk space

Clients
2 x Quad Core
8 GB RAM
73 GB hard disk

No San and NAS cause the money is spend to purchase network and rack infrastructure.

i can't imagine how fast is the comp...any idea how i wanna 'feel' it?

It's not as if relative to single/dual core processors. Unless the OS and application can utilise multi-core CPU, then you can see significant difference. Otherwise, the only thing you'll see are 2-3x faster processing, superb loading speed/response and that's all about it.

I'm testing on 2x Quad core processor (2.66GHz) with 24GB RAM and 10x 146GB SAS HDD (RAID-1 config) in Windows Server 2003 Enterprise, with SQL Server 2005 Enterprise. In term of brute force DB processing, I can see significant performance by comparing with an older server running Windows Server 2003 Standard with SQL Server 2000 Standard. A simple DB job now runs <30 minutes, while the older server runs at 2-3 hours.

I use it for MS Word, and it can open in <1 sec, almost instantaneous. But after that, what's the point ?

Military chips are generally not cutting edge superfast stuff. They tend to go for more reliable stuff. Shrinking circuits makes them less reliable.

Agree. Military/Industrial grade equipment are normally not the latest spec. Most of the time, it is one step behind. E.g. most industrial grade PDA equipment are still running PPC2003. Only some are migrated to WM5.0.

super comp is not for sale? if somebody is selling then the price should be how much? billion ah?

n where u wan to put...

hall maybe....

How about power ? I think even 3-phase also not enough.

And the cooling ? Need how many aircond ?

Electricity bill ? Who is paying ?

What is the utilisation rate or ratio ? You are not going to let it idle for >5 minutes, wasting resources. Run SETI ?

Dude... Hall also cannot accumulate this server man.. This server house several american football field la... Which part on Malaysia have such big facility.. There is alot of usage.. Maybe you can reverse engineer some software which u want to crack...? Super Computer also used to forecast weather... Simulate the earth... When the earth will be dead... Simulate earthquake, simulate which part on earth have fossil oil... there is alot of usage to own a super computer by a nation or company...

don get 2 serious dude... juz have a few laugh... and chill out...

How much core is't? 1000trillion core arh?

20 years ago, Shell in Holland HQ owned a Cray XMP SuperComputer.

It cost them around 300Mil USD.

Now, I'm not sure where is it already. Probably retired already, Cause it was known to make crazy noices + heat.

Now, The only Craziest computer room that i ever attend will be SSB, Sarawak Shell Berhad.

They have More than 7 chillers, which kept the room below 15c.

The air coming from the floor will easily harden any small fluid.

SSB contains a lot of Dell PowerEdge, HP, IBM X eServer, Hitachi Data System drives and etc.

Wait till you come, and you will see how magnificence this computer room that is.

Every server rack there each blades/server contains 16GB RAM, Intel Xeon 5 Series Quad. (you can imagine how much of computing power in it, consider Shell has more than 80 Rack mounts, each drives is 24TB by the way, using eSATA fibre optics, or just SCSI. More than 1000TB is known to exist there.)

Only the high end workstation uses nVidia Quadro FX5600, around more than 2000 units is using them, with SLi just to do seismic simlulation.

There's even a room dedicated for 3D simulation where you wear the google and go for a crazy 3D simulation.

Overall, if you want to visit a computer room, SSB will be your perfect choice.