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Cray Unleashes Red Storm: Opteron-based supercomputer!
Posted by: Jim on: 07/24/2003 07:42 PM [ Print | 12 comment(s) ]
Mikey is running a post today about Cray's "Red Storm", a supercomputer which uses a total of 10,368 Opterons.
The system is cooled by an ingenious fan system located under the store, and everything in the system runs on the Linux operating system, with open source "Lustre" used for the file system.With such power, the Autobots don't stand a chance of defeating the ruthless Deceptacons. I can hear Megatron taunting Optimus Prime already. Anyways, you might want to read up on this bad boy.
Red Storm can be used for nuclear simulations, and other big data crunching applications it appears.
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Fr0st Registered User Posts: 493 Joined: 2001-01-05 |
#23972 Posted on: 07/25/2003 12:16 AM
In the article- "10,368 Opterons are linked in a three dimensional mesh using Hypertransport." I would love to see a diagram of that. Or at least have someone here with some knowledge of Supercomputer architecture explain it a bit? Nothing is true, everything is permitted. |
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UnregisteredO Unregistered |
#23973 Posted on: 07/25/2003 05:02 AM
A 3-D mesh is exactly how it sounds - this isn't a very bizarre configuration. Picture a 2-D mesh:
(Where a '*' is a node, and a line is an interconnect) ... and then extend it to 3-dimensions:
(Sorry for the drawing! Sheesh, ASCII sucks!) So picture lots of blocks like that, end on end. . This itself would simply be an 8-node 3D mesh. I'd go on, but that's the basic idea, I'm sure you can extrapolate from there. (Why not just go with a flat network? Probably the 'hypertransport' based interconnect doesn't support it, and try finding a switch with the ports and bandwidth to handle 10368 CPUs!) |
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KimVette Corvette Fanatic Posts: 945 Joined: 2002-07-30 |
#23974 Posted on: 07/25/2003 05:28 AM
Linux can scale to that magnitude? I'm impressed! My configuration: Many hopelessly outdated SMP boxen. Any system which is shipping is already obsolete! 
u r lame if u insist on trying 2 b l337 by abbrev evythng u type when asking ppl 4 hlp. kiddie speak is teh sux. ppl. plz stop teh kiddie speak. thx.
hint: aol kiddie speak is not cool, it just makes people not want to read your post. |
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Mr Bill two by two, hands of blue Posts: 2946 Joined: 2002-02-16 |
#23975 Posted on: 07/25/2003 07:05 AM
I posted a link to the LANL presentation on this a couple weeks ago. Its got some very nice pictures and lots of detail: http://forums.2cpu.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=39659&highlight=red+storm Here is the link to the pdf file: http://www.lanl.gov/orgs/ccn/salishan2003/pdf/camp.pdf My SMP rig [URL="http://personal.palouse.net/billshan/ghost.htm#A_Merlin"]Merlin[/URL] |
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Fr0st Registered User Posts: 493 Joined: 2001-01-05 |
#23976 Posted on: 07/25/2003 10:29 AM
I see what you mean. With a 2d mesh, at 3 (?) hypertransport connects per chip, it could be tough to pull off. Plus, even if you could do it 2d, wouldn't there be more distance (or nodes) between the 2 farthest cpus than with a 3d design? Bad for latency. Nothing is true, everything is permitted. |
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dual_celeron SMP Hobbyist Posts: 2559 Joined: 2001-04-19 |
#23977 Posted on: 07/25/2003 11:48 AM
Ummm.... doesn this thing get a good Energuide rating for power efficiency? Can you cook your lunch on the heatsinks? LOL Has a big geek-cool factor though. Everything from an old P90 to dual AMD XP2000 and Sempron 2400. Run an HTPC in the living room. Laptop, wireless networking all over the place at home & work.... blah blah blah |
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glitch Registered User Posts: 1173 Joined: 2000-11-18 |
#23978 Posted on: 07/25/2003 12:51 PM
wow. i'd like to have 10 TB of DDR memory. 240 TB of disk storage. yummy. i want one. |
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Citizen Kang Save Ferris Posts: 435 Joined: 2002-03-10 |
#23979 Posted on: 07/25/2003 07:06 PM
Now only if we could get this behemoth folding for 2CPU, even for just a day... MSI K7D Master | MP2800's@2304MHz (watercooled) | 2x1 GB 2100 Promise FastTrak100 TX2 RAID-0 & twin WD 800JB HDDs | ATI 8500DV | rabbit's foot... |
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Bravo 1 Numpty Posts: 244 Joined: 2003-08-20 |
#23980 Posted on: 08/20/2003 07:35 PM
"10,368 of the 148 Opteron CPUs By INQUIRER staff: Thursday 24 July 2003, 09:26 OUR COMMAND OF Japanese is non-existent, so apologies for not noticing this one before. Last week AMD and Cray visited Japan and told the press about the Red Storm supercomputer which uses a total of 10,368 Opterons. The machine, it transpires, will use the 148 Opteron with the essential glue being provided by Cray to make the multiprocessing super computer sing to the tune of 40 TFLOPS." I think 10,386 opterons is a bit excessive dont u? If the world is flat, why am i flying around in circles, and not falling off into space? The computers |
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Fr0st Registered User Posts: 493 Joined: 2001-01-05 |
#23981 Posted on: 08/20/2003 08:30 PM
No more so than I think that 640K ought to be enough RAM for anybody  Nothing is true, everything is permitted. |
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UKWolf SMP Wannabie Posts: 430 Joined: 2001-06-28 |
#23982 Posted on: 08/21/2003 05:46 PM
It depends on how big a problem your trying to solve and how long you wnat to take. But wouldn't it be funny if the answer was 42
:cool: "It's unwise ... |
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Bravo 1 Numpty Posts: 244 Joined: 2003-08-20 |
#23983 Posted on: 08/21/2003 07:01 PM
If it is 42 i'll bow down and kiss douglas adams arse and sing "u are a god"  If the world is flat, why am i flying around in circles, and not falling off into space? The computers |