yes, they could take the time, energy, and resources to build a supercomputing cluster, but for alot of corperations, it's more ecconomicly viable to purchase them, already built from another computer. Same goes with average PC's, but a lot of people are still buying Dell's aren't they?
Why exactly do people buy from major vendors (i.e. Sun MicroSystems) if the clusters are built using commercially available parts? Couldn't they (research labs) build their own from scratch? I mean the people buying these badboys are either scientists They could design their own nodes and then rack'em in a configuration could they not? (I'm new to this.)
that's because that scale is rated in TF of overall power. The best part of Tsubame is that it is made from completely commercially available parts in a cluster configuration.
not so long ago, machines of this physical size were beyond the reach of ordinary people. Things are very different now, and who knows someday perhaps we'll all have machines as cool as that in the form of a laptop :) its okay to dream isn't it??
Why don't people build their own airplanes?
This is half a million dollars worth of hardware.
Simulations of planetary collisions and massive explosions in real time don't just happen because you plugged a bunch of motherboards together.
Those aren't pretty video game graphics, those are mathematically correct models that can be studied in very reliable detail.
usahpc 4 years ago
It says its a Sun HPC Cluster, but it appears they are running Mac OS X. Looks like X-Grid is the Mainware.
usahpc 4 years ago
yes, they could take the time, energy, and resources to build a supercomputing cluster, but for alot of corperations, it's more ecconomicly viable to purchase them, already built from another computer. Same goes with average PC's, but a lot of people are still buying Dell's aren't they?
theghengiskhan 4 years ago
Why exactly do people buy from major vendors (i.e. Sun MicroSystems) if the clusters are built using commercially available parts? Couldn't they (research labs) build their own from scratch? I mean the people buying these badboys are either scientists They could design their own nodes and then rack'em in a configuration could they not? (I'm new to this.)
doseryder 4 years ago
that's because that scale is rated in TF of overall power. The best part of Tsubame is that it is made from completely commercially available parts in a cluster configuration.
theghengiskhan 4 years ago
not so long ago, machines of this physical size were beyond the reach of ordinary people. Things are very different now, and who knows someday perhaps we'll all have machines as cool as that in the form of a laptop :) its okay to dream isn't it??
allo28 4 years ago
That is very nice, InfiniBand is 1337
son1caaron 4 years ago
Very nice. Clean & neat powerhouse from Sun.
Does anyone know why it's a 'would-be' in the rankings if it is greater than the similarly situated Earth Simulator?
reginald22 5 years ago