FASTRA II: the world’s most powerful desktop supercomputer

Started by MF_Erwan, May 02, 2010, 05:09:25 AM

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MF_Erwan


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Not so impressive because, AFAIK, hardware boards support only single precision floats (useless for most numerical applications) and SIMD-like processing (applicable only to some kind of problems).

A rack full of low cost pizza-box processing nodes with Linux is much more impressive and generally usable.

Oshyan

Not to mention that the cards used are now outclassed in raw GPU computing power by the newer Tesla as well as ATI 5970 cards.

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