Sun Microsystem on Barcelona over Xeon.

[darious00777]

Link
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/27/AR2007062700065.html?referrer=email

I got to think and had to post:

Sun chose the AMD Opteron quad-core chip, code-named Barcelona, over rival Intel Corp.'s quad-core Xeon 5300 chip, because it believes AMD's will be "the fastest chip on the market this year,"

 

[r0ck]

You understand that that is in the context of supercomputing?

 

[NMDante]

Link
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/27/AR2007062700065.html?referrer=email

I got to think and had to post:

Sun chose the AMD Opteron quad-core chip, code-named Barcelona, over rival Intel Corp.'s quad-core Xeon 5300 chip, because it believes AMD's will be "the fastest chip on the market this year,"

That's good.

"We are still hopeful that they will deliver the chips on time."

So, hopefully, Sun will get the required amount of CPUs they need to create this supercomputer. How many will they need? 32 thousand and some change?

 

[r0ck]

http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2007/06/sun_supercomputer
Under the hood, Ranger's brain will be built from 16,744 quad-core AMD Opteron processors.

 

[NMDante]

http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2007/06/sun_supercomputer
Under the hood, Ranger's brain will be built from 16,744 quad-core AMD Opteron processors.

As if that weren't enough, the entirely new cluster will demand three megawatts of power and will cost the university one million dollars per year to keep humming.

Ouch.

Ranger costs $30 million in hardware alone, and an additional $29 million for staffing and maintenance -- and is being entirely funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation.

So, that's $30 mil to build, 29 more for maintenance, and a mil a year to run? Whoa...

 

[crow_smiling]

They should try enabling Cool n Quiet. :lol:

 

[turpit]

They should try enabling Cool n Quiet. :lol:

:lol: :lol:

 

[wolverinero79]

Why does the university get a rate of just $114 per hour for the electricity? That's $114/3megawatts...or just under 4 cents per KWh. Man...That would be nice (this assumes that all cost they are ctiting in the million dollar figure is electricty).

In California, residents pay over 30 cents/KWh.