where is G5 now? LOL!!!

[allanon1965]

take a look at this G5, http://apnews.myway.com//article/20031114/D7UQ6DEG0.html
what did you say about the MAC super computer? which was only rated as the worlds 3rd fsatest computer....i know i sgouldnt do this, but i cant resist, that little ah heck is always touting MAC....have a nice day G5

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[superpsa]

LOL, there's nothing really wrong with a Mac (i don't understand people who right it off). It's expensive, it's not the best overall, but it does do some things pretty good. Personally, I'd never buy one because they're so bloody expensive, but if you want to do some lovely graphics design...(or hate Windows...)

AMD Is An Anagram Of MAD, Intel Is An Anagram Of INLET, Cyrix...Ah Who Cares?

 

[Zoron]

Don't need to buy a Mac if you hate Windows... there are other options for x86 users. As for graphics design... what exactly makes a Mac better at it than a PC? I know this was the case years ago... but I'm not so sure about it now.

<font color=red> If you design software that is fool-proof, only a fool will want to use it. </font color=red>

 

[cdpage]

I just read that link you posted... im a little confused.

what does that have to do with anything?...thats a Super computer... G5 is wasn't touting the Big MAC as the worlds fasted...and if he was... well then fine...

look at it this way...yes thats a VERY NICE machine they got there... nice and small... however, look at the CPU ratio here...

Speed yea sure the blue Gene wins by brut force...it has 25x more CPUs then the Earth Sim

<font color=blue>BLUE Gene/L</font color=blue> at 1/128 ------- 1,024 CPUs / 2 teraflops

<font color=red>BIG MAC</font color=red> ---------------- 1,100 x 2 CPUs / 17.6 teraflops

<font color=purple>Thunder</font color=purple> ---------------- 3,840 CPUs / 20 teraflops

<font color=green>Earth Sim</font color=green> ------------------ 5,120 CPUs / 36 teraflops

<font color=blue>BLUE Gene/L</font color=blue> at 128/128 --- 130,000 CPUs / 360 teraflops


CPU's / tereflop:

<font color=blue>Blue Gene/L</font color=blue> @ 1/128th ---------- 512/1 = not so good

<font color=blue>Blue Gene/L</font color=blue>@ 128/128th --- 361.111r/1 = little better

<font color=green>Earth Sim</font color=green> --------------- 142.222r/1 = Better still

<font color=purple>Thunder</font color=purple> ---------------- 192/1 = Even Better

<font color=red>Big Mac</font color=red> ---------------------- 125/1 = much Better


Now i could be going about this all wrong, but it seems to me that per CPU the Mac has the best floating point average...

Just for fun...

it would take 45,000 G5's to make the 360 teraflop mark...therorticly

if there were 130,000 G5's that would make sometihng in ball park of 1,039 teraflops...1 <b>pentaflop</b>

WOW thats a whole new catagory...

<b>Edit</b> --- i just added the new machine intel plans to be completed in December.. the '<font color=purple>Thunder</font color=purple>', that will contain 3,840 1.4GHz, 4MB Itanium 2.

- side note is that at a cost of $36 million? Apples solution came to $5.2 million...


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[CaptainNemo]

How many SETI units could a pentaflop supercomputer process in an hour?

"Some mice have two buttons. Macintosh has one. So it's extremely difficult to push the wrong button." - Apple ad. circa 1984.

 

[cdpage]

SETI... units?

thats not looking for ET? is it?


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[HardWareBoss]

That's your job.

 

[AMD_Man]

Maybe ET has the cure for cancer?

Intelligence is not merely the wealth of knowledge but the sum of perception, wisdom, and knowledge.

 

[HardWareBoss]

ET phone home.

 

[cdpage]

I realy don't meen to seem like a troll...posting in defence of apple all the time.

But a while back there was an argument about VT saying that Apples sollution was the cheapist...and no one would belive that.

but no one could come up with a answer...It does SEEM that apple might have a realy good soluton here... in both cost and perfomance.

Am i wrong?

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[sjonnie]

<A HREF="http://www.cbronline.com/latestnews/8ff5ba1dbd20fc3d80256dde001e4751" target="_new">http://www.cbronline.com/latestnews/8ff5ba1dbd20fc3d80256dde001e4751</A>

An intersting article giving some more details about the Blue Gene /L. Each processor is a dual core and used 1.5W of power per core

<A HREF="http://www.anandtech.com/myanandtech.html?member=114979" target="_new">My PCs</A>

 

[cdpage]

That is pretty intertesting... thanks...

I wonder how the Big Mac holds up to that...

I know for one thing that the electric bill is pretty high on the big mac... but as for the $ per Gigaflop... hmm

would that be, 17.6 devided by 5.2? =ing $3.38

If thats right... that ok i guess...in a 3,000 square foot area...not as good per processor for sure compaired to the blue gene that takes up more then 8000...

then again...the big mac consists of the FULL towers and everything included in them...had they gone with the U rack system then they'd be laughing.

oh well...spose that will be their next setup.


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