My company will have the world's fastest computer by January

[Capmaster]

http://www.sandia.gov/news-center/news-releases/2004/comp-soft-math/redstormrising.html

Kinda cool. They'll never let me use it for Videohelp posting though

[bazooka]

The pic reminds me of the W.O.P.R. from wargames.

I guess you will have to use the computer you use now.

[bugster]

http://www.sandia.gov/news-center/news-releases/2004/comp-soft-math/redstormrising.html

Kinda cool. They'll never let me use it for Videohelp posting though

But will they let you encode on it with TmpGenc

[Capmaster]

http://www.sandia.gov/news-center/news-releases/2004/comp-soft-math/redstormrising.html

Kinda cool. They'll never let me use it for Videohelp posting though

But will they let you encode on it with TmpGenc

Imagine 4-pass encoding a 4GB video file in 1.3 milliseconds 8)

[rallynavvie]

Red Storm, an air-cooled supercomputer, is being developed by Sandia and Cray Inc. using mostly off-the-shelf parts.

OK apparently I'm not shopping at the right places

[Ripper2860]

Red Storm, an air-cooled supercomputer, is being developed by Sandia and Cray Inc. using mostly off-the-shelf parts.

OK apparently I'm not shopping at the right places

OK -- I see the logic in using "off the shelf" parts, but deisigning a highly paralled internet access infrastructure using 48.8Kbps Winmodems is still kind of a throw-back!!

That and the integrated RAGE XL graphics chip.

[Capmaster]

Red Storm, an air-cooled supercomputer, is being developed by Sandia and Cray Inc. using mostly off-the-shelf parts.

OK apparently I'm not shopping at the right places

OK -- I see the logic in using "off the shelf" parts, but deisigning a highly paralled internet access infrastructure using 48.8Kbps Winmodems is still kind of a throw-back!!

That and the integrated RAGE XL graphics chip.

Hey! They're 56K modems

[BJ_M]

hmmm, looks like lots of job openings soon in the SAR dept. :

[Capmaster]

hmmm, looks like lots of job openings soon in the SAR dept. :

Those guys share the floor of my building with us regular radar pukes.

SAR is a high visibility area ...and SAR itself is pretty cool. Being able to generate hi-res terrain maps and images in real-time ..through clouds ...has plenty of military interest

[SLICK RICK]

hmmm, looks like lots of job openings soon in the SAR dept. :

Those guys share the floor of my building with us regular radar pukes.

SAR is a high visibility area ...and SAR itself is pretty cool. Being able to generate hi-res terrain maps and images in real-time ..through clouds ...has plenty of military interest

Sounds so much more interesting than my jobs.

[Capmaster]

hmmm, looks like lots of job openings soon in the SAR dept. :

Those guys share the floor of my building with us regular radar pukes.

SAR is a high visibility area ...and SAR itself is pretty cool. Being able to generate hi-res terrain maps and images in real-time ..through clouds ...has plenty of military interest

Sounds so much more interesting than my jobs.

Well, the SAR guys have their own plane hangared on Kirtland AFB where our company is. They get to go out and fly around in a twin-engined plane all day ...on the company's dime 8) They set up targets on the ground of varying geometries ...and test their resolution and other things. Cool work. And the SAR is currently being used by the military on a Lynx unmanned aerial vehicle.

There are other pretty cool projects going on too, like ground-penetrating radar, passive RF tags, satellite work, reconaissance black projects, etc. Very cool stuff.

And there I am with my mundane non-coherent pulsed radar altimeter fuze for the B83 Strategic Bomb. Boring as hell compared to the futuristic stuff some of my sister groups are working on

[thecoalman]

The machine has 96 processors in each computer cabinet, with four processors to a board. Each processor can have up to eight gigabytes of memory sitting next to it. Four Cray SeaStars — powerful networking chips — sit on a daughter board atop each processor board. All SeaStars talk to each other “like a Rubik cube with lots of squares on each face,” says Camp. “Cray SeaStars are about a factor of five faster than any current competing capability.”

Messages encoded in MPI (the Message Passage Interface standard) move from processor to processor at a sustained speed of 4.5 gigabytes per second bidirectionally. The amount of time to get the first information bit from one processor to another is less than 5 microseconds across the system. The machine is arranged in four rows of cabinets. There are a total of 11,648 Opteron processors and a similar number of SeaStars.

The SeaStar chip includes an 800 MHz DDR Hypertransport interface to its Opteron processor, a PowerPC core for handling message-passing chores, and a seven-port router (six external ports). SeaStars are linked together to make up the system¹s 3-D (X-Y-Z axis) mesh interconnect.

IBM is fabricating the SeaStar chips using 0.13-micron CMOS technology. Visualization will occur inside the computer itself — a capability unique to Red Storm among supercomputers.

Cool I saw a similar machine at Best Buy.

[Capmaster]

The machine has 96 processors in each computer cabinet, with four processors to a board. Each processor can have up to eight gigabytes of memory sitting next to it. Four Cray SeaStars — powerful networking chips — sit on a daughter board atop each processor board. All SeaStars talk to each other “like a Rubik cube with lots of squares on each face,” says Camp. “Cray SeaStars are about a factor of five faster than any current competing capability.”

Messages encoded in MPI (the Message Passage Interface standard) move from processor to processor at a sustained speed of 4.5 gigabytes per second bidirectionally. The amount of time to get the first information bit from one processor to another is less than 5 microseconds across the system. The machine is arranged in four rows of cabinets. There are a total of 11,648 Opteron processors and a similar number of SeaStars.

The SeaStar chip includes an 800 MHz DDR Hypertransport interface to its Opteron processor, a PowerPC core for handling message-passing chores, and a seven-port router (six external ports). SeaStars are linked together to make up the system¹s 3-D (X-Y-Z axis) mesh interconnect.

IBM is fabricating the SeaStar chips using 0.13-micron CMOS technology. Visualization will occur inside the computer itself — a capability unique to Red Storm among supercomputers.

Cool I saw a similar machine at Best Buy.

11,648 Opterons. That'd have rallynavvie wetting himself. Hell, that's have any of us wetting ourselves 8)

<checks bank balance to see if there's 20 or 30 million laying around collecting dust>

[thecoalman]

11,648 Opterons. That'd have rallynavvie wetting himself. Hell, that's have any of us wetting ourselves 8)

There would still be some newb asking why it takes so long to encode a video. I wonder id it will be able to handle Doom 4 when it comes out in 20 years.

[Capmaster]

11,648 Opterons. That'd have rallynavvie wetting himself. Hell, that's have any of us wetting ourselves 8)

There would still be some newb asking why it takes so long to encode a video. I wonder id it will be able to handle Doom 4 when it comes out in 20 years.

Maybe with the "visible light-frequency CPU clock upgrade" it'll be able to run it without too much jerkiness

[rallynavvie]

I'm guessing there is no shortage of pilots for that plane either :P

Hmm, 11,648 Opterons means 2912 quad-Opte boards in 364 8-up blades maybe? What kind of pipes do they run? Fibre-channel is sluggishly proprietary so I'm guessing they're using 4x 10GbE with iSCSI? I was talking to a high-end network guy just this week about supercomputer pipes. He works in DoD areas with applications like this. Pretty amazing stuff he was talking about, and the funny part was that big network companies have faster equipment than most government installations still

[ViRaL1]

http://www.sandia.gov/news-center/news-releases/2004/comp-soft-math/redstormrising.html

Kinda cool. They'll never let me use it for Videohelp posting though

You say that now, but by the time they get it installed, it will be obsolete. :P Looks like a full size locker room at a metro-area YMCA.

I'm guessing there is no shortage of pilots for that plane either :P

Hmm, 11,648 Opterons means 2912 quad-Opte boards in 364 8-up blades maybe? What kind of pipes do they run? Fibre-channel is sluggishly proprietary so I'm guessing they're using 4x 10GbE with iSCSI? I was talking to a high-end network guy just this week about supercomputer pipes. He works in DoD areas with applications like this. Pretty amazing stuff he was talking about, and the funny part was that big network companies have faster equipment than most government installations still

They're probably running more than 4-way boards. I personally don't see what the big deal is. It probably doesn't even have a DL burner in it.

[jimmalenko]

My company will have the world's fastest computer by January

... which will be outdated by ... oooh, let me see ... about February 7 I'd say


PS. Nice skyping with you the other day, cappy

[glockjs]

i wonder if they play solitare on it

[hech54]

I remember my dad coming home from work and bitching at his PC and how SLOW it was. He worked for Westinghouse and he got to play with their Cray....he was a bit spoiled to say the least...

[Capmaster]

My company will have the world's fastest computer by January

... which will be outdated by ... oooh, let me see ... about February 7 I'd say


PS. Nice skyping with you the other day, cappy

Ditto S ...ermmmm ....Jimm Good conversation. I think we solved all the world's problems

[jimmalenko]

PS. Nice skyping with you the other day, cappy

Ditto S ...ermmmm ....Jimm Good conversation. I think we solved all the world's problems

... except for what we're going to do about that northcat ****** ...

you know ... the .... yeah .... whaddayareckon ?

[Capmaster]

PS. Nice skyping with you the other day, cappy

Ditto S ...ermmmm ....Jimm Good conversation. I think we solved all the world's problems

... except for what we're going to do about that northcat ****** ...

you know ... the .... yeah .... whaddayareckon ?

I don't know yet. Let's concentrate on Tony Blair and John Howard first

[BJ_M]

looks like this one is faster -- and its going to your competitors ..

http://www.ebcvg.com/articles.php?id=313

[Capmaster]

looks like this one is faster -- and its going to your competitors ..

http://www.ebcvg.com/articles.php?id=313

Well, then as soon as it's installed and running, my company will scale up Red Storm to edge out the IBM.

Then Liverwurst or Lost Almost Labs will get a faster one. Then Sandia will scale up again.

Isn't it nice to see where your (well, not yours, BJ_M) taxpayer contributions are going?

[BJ_M]

you know -- for only about a million, i could tell them that that a big bomb will go KAABOOOOMM!!!!!!! and a smaller bomb will only go KABOOM!

which more or less is the main extent of what this is for ... :

[gooberguy]

I thought the fastest computer in the world was somthing the government has and it can do somthign a normal somuter would do in 11,000 years in like a sec.


Well thats just me and im stupid so

[BJ_M]

more or less - this is goverment ....

[gooberguy]

well like i said im stupid so...