Illinois students build 33 teraflop cluster from GPUs

With guidance from Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor Wen-mei Hwu, Computer Science professor Bill Gropp, and cluster experts at NCSA, students got hands-on experience building their own supercomputer with NVIDIA graphics-processing units. They hope to rank high on the Green500 list of energy-efficient supercomputers.

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[EkkoGaming]

Teraflops: 33. Girlfriends: 0

[plugzter]

This is my Bitcoin Mining Rig :)

[charlessmileyvideo]

@bro918 It means "Floating-point operation". Most high-order functions consist of calculations that contain a huge number of coefficients that describe functions and they are needed to multiply large arrays of data values. Flops make that faster and easier by standardizing the data as well as the calculation itself. Things like artillery ballistic tables for multiple variables used to take years to calculate by hand but now only take seconds.

[charlessmileyvideo]

They are not learning anything just using other people's circuit boards.

It's no different than building a brick wall out of bricks. Not one of them could design those boards or even understand the schematics. Sorry - not impressed much.

[camiji]

@EkkoGaming AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH­HAHAHA OH MY FUCKING GOD THAT IS SO FUCKING ORIGINAL!!!! RIGHT CAUSE THEY ARE STUDENTS WORKING WITH COMPUTERS THEY CANT POSSIBLY HAVE A SOCIAL LIFE!!!!! OMG...YOUR A FUCKING RETARD EKKO...GO JUMP INTO TRAFFIC YOU WASTE OF LIFE!!! rant off.....

[kallisti05]

@plugzter what a waste of money, AMD is 100x better doing compute.

[thedevo01]

@plugzter lol good luck with it! It would produce about 300Mh/s.

Seriously. I'm not saying ATi is better, I am an nVidia loyalist myself, but ATi's structure is simply more ideal for BTC. My 590 produces about 40MH/s while my HD 5850 produces 310Mh/s OC'd.

[legofans452]

With this setup, you could h4xx0r Minecraft to have so much draw distance, you could go to the Farlands, and see the other end of the Farlands. You'd need a 10008000p monitor, though. But apperenlty that's not a problem.

[theoverclockmonster]

but it still lags on minecraft

[Markitos203]

my lil bro could go to the nvidia site and build one.. wow

[MedQ]

go ESD go! :)

[bluntandkronic]

This music is atrocious