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PKI Holland Computing Center Deploys Quad-Core AMD Opteron

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Uploaded by on Mar 4, 2008

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

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

  • will this runs Sims2 at maximum setting?

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

  • 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.

  • haha once again, very good point

  • hmm. good point

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

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

  • wonder if it will run crysis :)

    joke

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