It consists of a 10,240-processor SGI Altix system comprised of 20 nodes, each with 512 Intel Itanium 2 processors, and running a Linux operating system
It consists of a 10,240-processor SGI Altix system comprised of 20 nodes, each with 512 Intel Itanium 2 processors, and running a Linux operating system
They should have went with AMD...
AMD doesn't have a processor that can scale 512 processors on a node sadly.
It consists of a 10,240-processor SGI Altix system comprised of 20 nodes, each with 512 Intel Itanium 2 processors, and running a Linux operating system
They should have went with AMD...
AMD doesn't have a processor that can scale 512 processors on a node sadly.
Can you imagine the electric bill on that thing? 8O
It consists of a 10,240-processor SGI Altix system comprised of 20 nodes, each with 512 Intel Itanium 2 processors, and running a Linux operating system
They should have went with AMD...
<YELLING ACROSS THE FORUMZ>
DAMN YOU INTEL AND YOUR PLANTS IN NASA DAMN YOU TO HELL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It consists of a 10,240-processor SGI Altix system comprised of 20 nodes, each with 512 Intel Itanium 2 processors, and running a Linux operating system
They should have went with AMD...
<YELLING ACROSS THE FORUMZ>
DAMN YOU INTEL AND YOUR PLANTS IN NASA DAMN YOU TO HELL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Beware, though! All that potential doesn't make statements like this one to be true:
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"These mergers are by far the most powerful events occurring in the universe, with each one generating more energy than all of the stars in the universe combined," said Dr. Joan Centrella, who leads the Gravitational Astrophysics Laboratory at Goddard.
Correctly put, it should read "more energy than that released (within a certain time delta) by all of the stars..."
It consists of a 10,240-processor SGI Altix system comprised of 20 nodes, each with 512 Intel Itanium 2 processors, and running a Linux operating system
They should have went with AMD...
<YELLING ACROSS THE FORUMZ>
DAMN YOU INTEL AND YOUR PLANTS IN NASA DAMN YOU TO HELL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
All that thousands of cpu put to work to simulate a black hole and still them scientist did not find a permanent cure for common cold. What a waste of money, to be exact our money. I would imagine that supercomputer got a super tag of millions of dollars from the tax payers. I hope that blackhole can cure cancers and make peace and it would be worth it.
I assume those big things on top of them supercomputers are the SLI bridges.
All that thousands of cpu put to work to simulate a black hole and still them scientist did not find a permanent cure for common cold. What a waste of money, to be exact our money. I would imagine that supercomputer got a super tag of millions of dollars from the tax payers. I hope that blackhole can cure cancers and make peace and it would be worth it.
Actually, they're (SC) used to gene decoding and for an endless amount of research, in more areas than you can count (cancer research & common cold included); as for peace... forget about it!
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I assume those big things on top of them supercomputers are the SLI bridges.
Also since NASA is not running X86 code (or at least I do not think they are) Itanics dont carry all that old bagage and are faster then AMD CPU's and before the AMD fanatics go "then why dont they use them in servers more" well thats becouse you need to run X86 code on your server and Itanics can only run it through emulation... therefore they are slower at that (You can blame Intel for being stupid in that respect lol)
It consists of a 10,240-processor SGI Altix system comprised of 20 nodes, each with 512 Intel Itanium 2 processors, and running a Linux operating system
They should have went with AMD...
Which explains perfectly why they cant convert from SAE to metric correctly, and keep crashing probes into mars and losing satelites
Which explains perfectly why they cant convert from SAE to metric correctly, and keep crashing probes into mars and losing satelites
That only happened once, and NASA has successfully landed more probes on and put more sattelites into orbit around Mars than any other country/organization (I'm not positive, but you might be able to stick a "combined" at the end of that phrase)
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All that thousands of cpu put to work to simulate a black hole and still them scientist did not find a permanent cure for common cold. What a waste of money, to be exact our money. I would imagine that supercomputer got a super tag of millions of dollars from the tax payers. I hope that blackhole can cure cancers and make peace and it would be worth it.
Umm, one thing that NASA does with supercomputers is figure out where Near Earth Objects are going to end up in a hundred and fifty years so that we know if we need to be trying to nudge them in a different direction to keep it from hitting earth and wiping out humanity. Orbital mechanics are dang complicated, and trying to calculate something like that out that far is just insane. Plus, there are a few thousand space things flying aroud the earth that need to be tracked so that you don't lauch a spacecraft (especially one carrying people) into the path of a sattelite (or a screwdriver that someone "dropped" during an EVA) that is flying 5000 mph relative to the spacecraft. Tracking all that takes a lot of crunching power. Oh yeah, there's also computational fluid dynamics. Calculating hypersonic flows around the latest and greatest research scramjets takes a little more computing power than what you have sitting next to your desk right now (unless you have a couple of thousand years and a very, very stable system). The long and short of it is that it is used for aeronautics and space research. Ever flown on an aircraft to get anywhere? If so, then don't badmouth NASA spending money on something like this because without government supported research modern day aviation would be a fry cry from what it is.
