Researchers Introduce 22.8 TFlop Energy-Efficient Supercomputer
Researchers at Virginia Tech’s Center for High-End Computing Systems have built the second version of a supercomputer called System G that runs at 22.8 TFlops. System G uses 325 Mac Pro computers that each have two four-core 2.8 GHz Intel Xeon processors and eight GB of RAM.
Best of all, the machine is an experiment in green computing. System G is the largest power-aware cluster in the world, and will help researchers develop algorithms for high-performance computer requiring minimal power.
System G is decked out with power-aware disks, CPU’s, and memory. It is also the most advanced network of power and thermal sensors to be assembled on such a machine.
Ultimately, the researchers hope to use System G to create energy-efficient computing systems as small as department-sized machines and as large as national-scale resources.
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November 18th, 2008 at 5:59 pm
That’s one hell of a super computer. I’d love to have something like that running in my office : )
November 19th, 2008 at 7:55 pm
Should read “…two four-core 2.8 GHz Intel Xeon processors…”
November 19th, 2008 at 8:03 pm
Doesn’t the Mac Pro only have 2 processors, not 4? With total support for two four-core processors?
November 19th, 2008 at 9:33 pm
5 Ads on this page blocked by the adblock firefox extension but only 4 paragraphs? Something is wrong here.
Some more detail would have been nice.
November 19th, 2008 at 10:09 pm
6 Tesla S1070 > these guys
November 19th, 2008 at 11:49 pm
I still don’t see what’s so special about clustering a group of computers.
I can only imagine that the hardest part of this project was the mickey mouse work of unpacking all those computers and linking them up together; it’s not like they actually made a computer from scratch.