PKI Holland Computing Center Deploys Quad-Core AMD Opteron

The Peter Kiewit Institute (PKI) at the University of Nebraska has deployed 2,300 Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors -- or 9,200 cores -- operating at over 60 Teraflops at its Holland Computing Center.

Highlights include:

-The ease of upgrading from Dual-Core AMD Opteron processors to Quad-Core;
-Additionally, this upgrade equated to over triple the original performance with no change in PKI's thermal footprint whatsoever;
-Furthermore, not only does this computing center provide the exact technology environment researchers are looking for, but it also currently serves as the largest Microsoft Computer Cluster in the world.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• AMD
• Quad-Core
• Opteron
• Barcelona
• Holland
• Computing
• Center
• Dell
• Microsoft
• Supercomputing
• PKI
• Nebraska

[stuff4alex]

The tall guy in the video with the apparent bald spot is me. Damn didnt realize I had lost that much hair.

[logistix111]

What programs are you guys running on this cluster? Are you using OpenMosix or MPICH2?

[2point8GHz]

will this runs Sims2 at maximum setting?

[elliott4555]

dude, at 60 teraflops, you would get like 45 frps at max settings.

[tipoomaster]

To put this into a greater perspective, a Core 2 Duo processor puts out a *theoretical maximum* 4 flops per clock (per core) and runs somewhere between 1.8GHz and 2.66GHz.

That means that an average (2GHz) processor operating at theoretical peak efficiency, your average Core 2 Duo processor would put out about 16 gigaflops. Real performance probably peaks at about 70-80% of that, which means about 12-13 gigaflops.

[grnday11700]

haha once again, very good point

[grnday11700]

hmm. good point

[tipoomaster]

with 60 Teraflops? maybe 20-25 at most, lol.

[grnday11700]

haha that would be amazing. and really cool to watch. how many fps do you think you'd get?

[tipoomaster]

wonder if it will run crysis :)

joke