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Cray XT Jaguar: 45,000 QC Opterons

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1:00 PM - November 12, 2008 by Tuan Nguyen

Cray is no stranger to the supercomputing world — it’s practically the pioneer in the field. This week, the department of energy (DOE) announced that it has completed the setup of a new Cray XT Jaguar supercomputer that breaks all world records, claiming to be the fastest supercomputer on Earth.

The monstrous machine is made up of 45,000 quad-core AMD Opteron processors. As a frame of reference, that’s a mind boggling 180,000 cores. And here I am getting excited over my dual quad-core machine. In terms of memory, the XT Jaguar is outfitted with 362 terabytes (TB) of memory or 362,000 gigabytes of memory; enough to load just about anything.

Storage is handled by traditional hard drives instead of SSDs, but don’t boo. The XT Jaguar has 10 petabytes of storage. What’s 10 petabytes?—ten million gigabytes. At this point, people would usually say that that’s more than enough for anything, but even savvy computer users these days can figure out ways to utilize that kind of capacity.

The XT Jaguar has so much bandwidth and so much computing power that it can process a quadrillion mathematical calculations per second. Sustained memory bandwidth tops out at 578 terabytes per second and I/O bandwidth squeezes in 284 gigabytes per second.

Very fast to say the least.

Source : Tom's Hardware

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Jim_L9 11/12/2008 7:27 PM
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Can I get one for home use ;-)

Igot1forya 11/12/2008 7:31 PM
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What? No Crysis numbers? :)

Anonymous 11/12/2008 7:35 PM
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So what kind of Crysis marks does it get?

Will I require a water-cooling setup or will air cooling in my garage be enough?

joex444 11/12/2008 7:35 PM
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Slight correction: 362TB is not 362,000GB. This beast actually has 362,000GB -- that figure is correct. But you need to divide in base 2 to get to TB, not base 10. So this is actually 2^(-10)*362000 TB = 353.5TB.

And since the DoE has this, what's the power consumption?

Pei-chen 11/12/2008 7:38 PM
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Isn't 578 terabytes about the same as IBM's current top performer?

jrabbitb 11/12/2008 7:54 PM
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If they wanted/needed more power could they OC this thing or is it already tweaked?

cablechewer 11/12/2008 8:22 PM
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In 30-40 years this will all fit in the form factor of an iPhone...

fatty35 11/12/2008 8:35 PM
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That would make a nice folding farm :)

2GooDrumr 11/12/2008 9:17 PM
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My poor 3500+...
Psh, I still love it :)

KupuAnd1 11/12/2008 9:58 PM
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Can they get me the user and pass so I can get in Remotely and play some games? Or watch some movies?

Anonymous 11/12/2008 10:05 PM
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lol soooooooo i can browse porn how quick?

jadedgamerx 11/12/2008 11:14 PM
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The supposed top speed of this is no faster than IBM's roadrunner 1 qaudrillion = 1 petaflop = Roadrunner's current speed. All Cray has done is prove they can hit 1 petaflop without using the cell processor (playstation 3)/operteron setup and just run pure opteron's instead. Whoopity do.

Mucke 11/12/2008 11:21 PM
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Will they upgrade to Shanghais next week?

Anonymous 11/13/2008 1:34 AM
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Holy SHITTTTTTTTTTTT! Screw Shanghais - go Core i7!. I wanna see its performance on Crysis and Far Cry 2.... at once

jaragon13 11/13/2008 1:36 AM
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Mucke :
Will they upgrade to Shanghais next week?


Haha,it's nice they do this all before the new processors come out....
They should of done this in 2009,and they would of beat them by a long shot.

shadow703793 11/13/2008 3:13 AM
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Now let's see this thing run LinPak

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LINPACK

zodiacfml 11/13/2008 5:39 AM
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i have yet to see a supercomputer using server chips from intel especially now that they have the nehalem architecture.

tipoo 11/13/2008 3:28 PM
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DAMN IT! the IBM Roadrunner i just bought is obsolete now! lol.

kschoche 11/13/2008 7:46 PM
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Mucke :
Will they upgrade to Shanghais next week?



Wouldnt be surprised if they got early releases of the Shanghais. Afterall, when this machine was announced *years* ago, it was designed to have quad-core opterons even before AMD had a quad-core chip out.

Mennoknight 11/13/2008 9:27 PM
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Man! How do you back up 10 petabytes? 200,000 dual platter Blu-Ray discs for a backup? Oh man. Better get a 6x burner.

And I hope it has like a Radeon 4870x2048 for graphics...

tipoo 11/13/2008 9:46 PM
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you (the author) have a dual quad core machine? is it skulltrail or the Mac Pro? review it!

geoffs 11/13/2008 11:48 PM
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360,000GB RAM and 45,000 CPU, gives 8GB per CPU, which is one likely configuration. Maybe it's 16GB per pair of CPUs.

I don't know where the other 2,000GB comes in (or if 362TB is incorrect or a rounding anomaly caused by mixing 1000 and 1024). Perhaps 128-256 of the CPUs are "super-nodes" with 16GB+.

Maybe they can lend me the extra 2TB, doesn't really sound like they need it ;)

Antilycus 11/14/2008 6:42 PM
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and it would stay take forever to render a movie on it...

Anonymous 11/17/2008 6:09 AM
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So it should be ok to run notepad and calc side by side then.......

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