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20 petaflop DOE Sequoia supercomputer under construction
Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 1:27 pm
by Mr Kleen
I See Your Petaflop and Raise You 19 More
wired wrote:By almost any standard, the new computer will be staggering. It will have 1.6 million processing cores, 1.6 petabytes of memory, 96 racks and 98,304 computing nodes. Yet, the new computer will have a much smaller footprint at 3,400 square feet than the current fastest computer's 5,200 square feet. And it will be much more energy efficient than its predecessors, only drawing 6 megawatts of power a year. That's about how much energy 500 American homes use in the same period.
Sequoia will go online sometime in 2012.
...perhaps December 21? 
Re: 10 petaflop DOE Sequoia supercomputer under construction
Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 1:29 pm
by Libra Monkee
10 or 20?
Re: 10 petaflop DOE Sequoia supercomputer under construction
Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 1:31 pm
by chicken n waffles
Re: 10 petaflop DOE Sequoia supercomputer under construction
Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 1:34 pm
by Mr Kleen
Libra Monkee wrote:10 or 20?
RTFA?
it's
20, sorry for the fat-finger thread title.
Re: 10 petaflop DOE Sequoia supercomputer under construction
Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 7:14 am
by sirwilliam
chicken n waffles wrote:
Seriously.
"...Sequoia became self aware sometime in 2012".
Re: 20 petaflop DOE Sequoia supercomputer under construction
Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 9:04 am
by complacent
That whole Mayan calendar thing is starting to creep me out.
Re: 20 petaflop DOE Sequoia supercomputer under construction
Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 9:26 pm
by avriette
complacent wrote:That whole Mayan calendar thing is starting to creep me out.
It creeps me out a lot less when I think about how McKenna made most of his revelations on psilocybin.
Re: 20 petaflop DOE Sequoia supercomputer under construction
Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 10:42 pm
by Sabre
Along these lines, there is a national lab that will give you fee access to a super computer -- as long as you share any data that you crunch on it.
When Sequoia does go online, it's going to be very interesting...