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"To achieve that kind of speed and resolution, the [Connectom] machine draws 22 megawatts of power" Can that be right? The average large US hospital uses only
by adonovan 10y ago
"To achieve that kind of speed and resolution, the [Connectom] machine draws 22 megawatts of power"
Can that be right? The average large US hospital uses only 2.1MWe on average.
Source: Table H6 of https://www.eia.gov/consumption/commercial/reports/2007/large-hospital.cfm https://www.eia.gov/consumption/commercial/reports/2007/larg...
(57 billion kWhe annually for 3,040 large hospitals)
- neurotech1 10y ago22MW is comparable to the electricity consumed by the worlds top supercomputer, including cooling system. It seems they are using a large high performance compute cluster, and not a "branded" supercomputer like the Blue Gene/Q. http://www.humanconnectome.org/documentation/HCP-pipelines/meg-pipeline.html http://www.humanconnectome.org/documentation/HCP-pipelines/m... http://chpc.wustl.edu/who.html http://chpc.wustl.edu/who.html
- GFK_of_xmaspast 10y agoI personally don't see any difference between a large enough computing cluster and a supercomputer.
- neurotech1 10y agoMarketing and branding. The BlueGene/Q installation is sold as a package.
- lostlogin 10y agoThat's got to be a pretty nasty sequence to have run on you. A high res diffusion scan on a stock scanner can be heard a long way off and I've heard people 3 floors up complain of the noise (although that individual was quite susceptible to noise). This sequence must be rough on participant's ears.