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 Cente...
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.
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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.
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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.
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