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One of my favorite machines from Top500 is SystemX. https://www.top500.org/system/173736/ https://www.top500.org/system/173736/ When it was commissioned in 20
by shagie 3y ago
One of my favorite machines from Top500 is SystemX.
https://www.top500.org/system/173736/ https://www.top500.org/system/173736/
When it was commissioned in 2004, this array of 1100x Apple PowerPC 970 systems was the 7th most powerful computer on the list.
It's Linpack Performance was 12,250.00 GFlop/s.
- iancmceachern 3y agoMy favorite was the 33rd in line at the time which was made up of 1700 sony PS3s https://www.google.com/amp/s/phys.org/news/2010-12-air-playstation-3s-supercomputer.amp https://www.google.com/amp/s/phys.org/news/2010-12-air-plays...
- Cacti 3y agoWhen the DoE claimed the PS3 could be a dual purpose munition, they weren’t kidding.
- PaulRobinson 3y agoSaddam Hussein did try to buy a load of PlayStations at some point.
- hulitu 3y agoHe also had WMDs. /s
- iancmceachern 3y agoAnd Anna Nicole married for love (Great line in the movie Shooter"
- Cockbrand 3y agoThey were more or less cousins, as they were both based on the PowerPC CPU architecture.
- porbelm 3y agoHowever the Sony Cell had just a PowerPC controlling core. The real magic, and why it was used in supercomputers at the time, is in its Stream cores; they were highly tailored for vector and floating point maths.
- geeB 3y agoAbout the same headline number as a $350 Xbox Series X! Although fp64 vs fp32 and Linpack vs peak.
- zoky 3y agoYou forgot the best part: It was colloquially referred to as the “Big Mac”.
- shagie 3y agoFirst capture - https://web.archive.org/web/20040724145729/http://www.tcf.vt.edu/systemX.html https://web.archive.org/web/20040724145729/http://www.tcf.vt... Last capture - https://web.archive.org/web/20070606024231/http://www.tcf.vt.edu/systemX.html https://web.archive.org/web/20070606024231/http://www.tcf.vt... An FAQ from somewhere in the middle - https://web.archive.org/web/20060708113430/http://www.tcf.vt.edu/faq.html https://web.archive.org/web/20060708113430/http://www.tcf.vt...