SUPER CLUSTER!!!! (Ultimate Beowulf cluster!)

I was daydreaming today and I thought of this:

A large chamber, 100m underground. 84'x66'x20'. large dehumidifiers in each corner (i mean like the industrial ones), even though there won't be that much humidity already, since it's underground. (just for precautions)

Then have refridgeration units, almost like the freezers you put in your basement, built for 4 computers each. take the cooling sys out of a vapochill or vapochill2 (four of these cooling systems, one for each computer). so four supercooled computers for each refridgeration unit. Then, have 20 rows of about 10 of these. that's 200 of these units, with four computers each. that's 800 computers!!!!

Each computer has:

-- Dual AMD Athlon4 1.53GHz @ 2GHz or whatever (whatever they overclock to with a vapochill).
-- Tyan dual AMD mobo
-- 512MB CL2 PC2400 (300MHz Corsair)
-- 2x Cheetah 15x 26GB SCSI (RAID0 config)
-- some cheap graphics card
-- no sound

The main computer has:

-- Dual AMD Athlon4 1.53GHz @ 2GHz or whatever (whatever they overclock to with a vapochill).
-- Tyan dual AMD mobo
-- 512MB CL2 PC2400 (300MHz Corsair)
-- 2x Cheetah 15x 26GB SCSI (RAID0 config)
-- GeForce3 or NV30 (depending on when this is built)
-- SB LIVE! Value (or no sound, you're not playing games or listening to mp3s anyways)
-- 25x Afreey DVD-ROM (100+ CD-ROM read speeds)
-- 24" Trinitron
-- etc.


Now..... I kind of roughly put it together and the computers alone were about 10 million dollars.... not to mention the 10k a day for electricity.......

This is a computer enthusiast's wet dream.......

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Grass is a beautiful weed

So it looks like you are still fanticising about a Beowulf cluster, I thought you had given up. You never did say what you were planning on using one for anyway?????

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Well if you're going to dream, how about this:

each node:
<A HREF="http://www.appro.com/1124/index.html" target="_new">Appro 1124 Dual AMD 1U Rackmount</A>
2x 1.53Ghz Athlon4
4GB registered DDR DIMMS (if you could find 1gig dimms)
4x Seagate Cheetah X15 36LP 36.7 GB 15krpm Ultra160 RAID 0,1
3COM 3c985B-SX Gigabit-over-Fibre 64bit PCI Ethernet NIC

Put these in 45U Rackmount cabinets stacked 2 high on industrial "warehouse racks"

Given your dimensions and room for wheelchair access,
you could fit 16 rows x 42 racks x 2 high x 45 nodes
FOR A GRAND TOTAL OF........60480 nodes
OR 120960 CPUs
and one hell of an electric bill



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I think mine would stomp on ASCI White
which only has 8192 Power3@375 MHz

it'd be cool to test my theory anyways

Flame not, lest ye be flamed.

Damn! My secret's out!

Flame not, lest ye be flamed.

I just got a better idea! Screw the underground crap!!!!!!

Buy or make a frickin' huge warehouse, 1000' x 500' x 100' !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

100 rows of 100 racks 11 high 45 nodes each!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


<b>4,950,000 NODES!!!!!!!!!!!!

9,900,000 CPUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

19,800 TERRABYTES OF MEMORY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

726,660 TERRABYTES OF STORAGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

AND IMAGINE THE PROCESSING POWER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!WO;AIEJFOAWIEFOIJWJEFIOIFWEOIJEIEFIOJIEFJIJ222222222@!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!@@!11111111111111</b>

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Grass is a beautiful weed

How much money are those 1U racks????

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Grass is a beautiful weed

And all of this just to make the dinos look a little more realistic in Jurassic Park 4.

What the audience doesn't know though was that the entire movie was rendered. There were no actors. There were no props. There was no scene. It was completely digitally rendered and all of the voices were even digitally synthed.

Too bad it still cost more than doing it with real actors and all. Oh well. At least Jurassic Park 5 will be mostly paid for already.

If the opposite of pro is con, what is the opposite of productivity? Ground first.