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General => Open Discussion => Topic started by: MF_Erwan on May 02, 2010, 05:09:25 AM

Title: FASTRA II: the world’s most powerful desktop supercomputer
Post by: MF_Erwan on May 02, 2010, 05:09:25 AM
Interesting...

http://fastra2.ua.ac.be/

Erwan
Title: Re: FASTRA II: the world’s most powerful desktop supercomputer
Post by: latego on May 02, 2010, 05:35:03 AM
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.
Title: Re: FASTRA II: the world’s most powerful desktop supercomputer
Post by: Oshyan on May 03, 2010, 02:08:00 AM
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.

- Oshyan
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