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2CPU.com » News » June 2004 » US Army builds another G5-based supercomputer

US Army builds another G5-based supercomputer

Posted by: Jim_ on: 06/22/2004 02:49 AM [ Print | 13 comment(s) ]

Our Irish friend Tom was kind enough to let me know about a new G5-based supercomputer that the US Army has thrown together. They've labelled it MACH 5.
COLSA today announced the purchase of 1566 dual processor 1U rack-mount 64-bit Xserve G5 servers from Apple to build a new supercomputer, which it expects to be one of the fastest in the world. The supercomputer, named MACH 5, is expected to deliver a peak performance capability of more than 25 TFlops/second at a cost of $5.8 million and will be used to model the complex aero-thermodynamics of hypersonic flight for the US Army.
I thought you only needed one G5 to have a supercomputer? Ahem... Take a look.


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#30000 Posted on: 06/22/2004 07:53 AM
Sort of off topic, but still supercomputer news.. Some Forumla 1 racing design place is set to buy an AMD powered computer that is supposed to rank up in the top 11. I read it in the new york times, but cannot find teh link at the moment.

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#30001 Posted on: 06/22/2004 08:38 AM
Probably farrari... They have some cross promotion deals going with acer to build farrari red laptops...

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#30002 Posted on: 06/22/2004 09:09 AM
No, actually it's Sauber Petronas. Ferrari would probably get it for free. :)

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#30003 Posted on: 06/22/2004 09:22 AM
but VT's 'Big Mac' is still completely offline?
They're still waiting for their XServe's as well.

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#30004 Posted on: 06/22/2004 10:15 AM
Originally posted by ambit
but VT's 'Big Mac' is still completely offline?
They're still waiting for their XServe's as well.


At least the Virginia Tech has dropped out of the top500 list.

The new number two machine running Itanium, has far better max/peak ratio than the VT had, by the way, as the peak is just under 23Tflops and it can maintain a nearly 20Tflops spead over long period, as the same figures for the VT were something like 17Tflops peak and 11Tflops maximum.

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#30005 Posted on: 06/22/2004 12:07 PM
How did you guys miss this one?

http://tinyurl.com/2hpvg

A much, much nicer machine for my money. Better hardware and a real 64-bit OS. :)

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#30006 Posted on: 06/22/2004 05:05 PM
A much, much nicer machine for my money


Well maybe IBM are using a different motherboard to the XServe. At the very least its likely that IBM are using the same Apple designed memory controller as in the XServe.
However for $2699 (for dual 1.6GHz PPC970fx????) and 333MHz ECC DDR memory (link )
I would much prefer to have the same hardware options available to me as the XServe with dual 2GHz PPC970fx with 400MHz ECC DDR memory. And if you don't want to use the OS X Server (unlimited licence) you can use yellowdoglinux or another PPC linux if needs be
http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/

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#30007 Posted on: 06/22/2004 05:06 PM
i wonder how it folds?

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#30008 Posted on: 06/23/2004 02:29 AM
i_wolf, dude, the IBM Xserve's have 2.2GHz 970fx chips now :) And yes, the motherboard is different because those blades are _pretty tiny_ compared to the XServe!

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#30009 Posted on: 06/23/2004 04:34 AM
IBM's JS20 blades are at 2.2GHz ????? Thats news to me. Not that I doubt you at all, but could you provide a link, I would love this if true. When i found the JS20 blades on IBM's site they said that they were 'available up to 1.6GHz'. And when i clicked on the configuration tab, there was no option to build a JS20 with anything higher than a 2.2GHz. This is fantastic if true.
One thing I also noticed about IBM's JS20 is that they are using 4200RPM hard drives (probably to keep heat down), still Apple seams to manage the same form factor with hotter running hard drives, I would wonder why IBM has gone the route of a 4200RPM hard drive in a node such as that. As far as size differences, are they both not built to standard 1U specifications??

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#30010 Posted on: 06/23/2004 04:51 AM
I_wolf I _did_ provide the link. Just read it again carefully :)

Bits of IBM's website are pretty behind, but this sort of thing is normal, isn't it? I mean if you look at SGI's web page, you'd think the top clockspeed CPU you can buy is a 1.5GHz Itanium, but if you give them a call they'll be only too happy to sell you 1.6GHz ones :)

If you are really interested in a JS20 setup, give IBM a call and I'm sure they can sort you out....

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#30011 Posted on: 06/23/2004 04:53 AM
Originally posted by i_wolf
As far as size differences, are they both not built to standard 1U specifications??


No!! IBM's JS20s are half as big as Xserves! From the IBM page:

"Up to 84 2-way blades may be installed in an industry-standard 42U rack"

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#30012 Posted on: 06/23/2004 05:07 AM
_wolf I _did_ provide the link. Just read it again carefully


sorry! Got it second time round!
Their website is disastroushly behind it seams :) You are correct about SGI's site as well.... its behind as well it seams.

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