Virginia Tech PowerMac Cluster Ranks 3rd

[deadduck]

RE: Upgrading processors

I wouldn't bother Lets see, sell 1100 G5's to students in 2 years still quality machines, and place 1100 new machines with faster busses RAM etc. in place this could even be done over time with little or no downtime to the cluster much better for performance of the cluster and a great deal for students

 

[theRebel]

Originally posted by Rocketman
Some one posted a reminder that the VT cluster is composed of complete consumer friendly CPU's with ALL associated accessories installed. That this fact will result in a great resale value in 2-3 years when they "sidegrade" to G5-2.8 ghz boxes

3Ghz G5 systems should be available in 2004, so I doubt that 2-3 years from now that VT will be installing 2.8Ghz G5s.

 

[udannlin]

destroys number 1 and 2 in per processor calculations

2200 chips and 17 teraflops.. thats awesome...

 

[Sabbath]

Arrgghh I dont know who makes the decisions on computer purchasing here at the university of nottingham (UK) we appear at 339 with 128 pentium 4 xeons @ 2.8GHz built this year. What a waste of money why didnt we just buy some Dual G5s. The resale value of the computers involved must be considered too but clearly isnt.

Its probably the same guy who keeps us running win98 on all the uni's computers, not offering 1 mac for use of any of the 18000 students, and offering no wireless networing at all. Idiot.

 

[thatwendigo]

Originally posted by PyroTurtle
lets not go into government computers...
considering the fact that there's no mention of any DoD computers, or other ciphering machine used by the US or UK...
like i said, lets not get into that subject

Oh, really?

The number 2, 18, 19, 20, 27, 34, 56, 57, 67, 71, 113, 132, 147, 15, 169, 197, 285, 290-293, and 296 machines all belong to US Government owned facilities that do military work or are military installations.

Also, the UK's Atomic Program is #37.

That's a casual scanning, by the way. I'm sure I missed some.

 

[stoid]

Originally posted by Sabbath
Its probably the same guy who keeps us running win98 on all the uni's computers, not offering 1 mac for use of any of the 18000 students, and offering no wireless networing at all. Idiot.

We are touted as the "Electronic Campus Since 1987" and we are using about 2500 two year old 900MHz Gateway boxes and 4 G4 towers of some variety in the video editing lab. Can you check out laptops for use from the campus library only to find out that they are 3 inch thick bigger than your Physics book IBM ThinkPad's from 1999. Maybe that's why they don't have wireless networks on the campus, their portable technology is so hopelessly out of date that only those with their own computers could use it.

 

[Powerbook G5]

We don't have wireless here, heck, we didn't even have internet at all until this semester and it's a terribly unreliable DSL network that literally goes down two are three times a day on average. We just "upgraded" all of the Dell boxes in the library to some variety of Pentium 4 and from Windows 2000 to Windows XP Pro (a downgrade in my opinion). Every classroom now has a Dell and a nifty Hitachi A/V projector which 98% of the teachers never utilize, and the only Macs we have are a few original iMacs (hockey puck mice and all), a few Yikes G4s, and OS X 10.0 server running on them. It's pretty sad to say the least.

 

[PyroTurtle]

yes, there are some government computers listed...
my point was all the code cracking machines aren't listed. none of them.
as a side note, i think they should list the seti@home and folding@home programs on that list