Indiana University Dedicates Biggest College-Owned Supercomputer 83
Indiana University has replaced their supercomputer, Big Red, with a new system predictably named Big Red II. At the dedication HPC scientist Paul Messina said: "It's important that this is a university-owned resource. ... Here you have the opportunity to have your own faculty, staff and students get access with very little difficulty to this wonderful resource." From the article: "Big Red II is a Cray-built machine, which uses both GPU-enabled and standard CPU compute nodes to deliver a petaflop -- or 1 quadrillion floating-point operations per second -- of max performance. Each of the 344 CPU nodes uses two 16-core AMD Abu Dhabi processors, while the 676 GPU nodes use one 16-core AMD Interlagos and one NVIDIA Kepler K20."
AMD ?? (Score:0, Funny)
You want PERF you must go INTEL !!
Intel RUELZ !!
Research Hell (Score:5, Funny)
Can you imagine how many Bitcoins this thing could mine per hour?
Re:Dedication ceremony? (Score:5, Funny)
I realize that you don't "believe", but SkyNet will be real one day and we never know which super computer will be the first node in humanity's Beowulf Cluster of Death.
Maybe, just maybe, if we're nice to them and show them some respect they'll let us service their modules until we die of natural causes.