On Thursday 27 July 2006 21:44, Anand Nene wrote: > On 7/27/06, श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर wrote: > > Duh.. any decent multitasking OS could do that.. > > I think you aren't aware about CFD simulation, available CFD software > and hardware requirements?
Sounds exactly like TPC benchmark hardware.. Just a bit clustered.. :) http://www.tpc.org/tpcc/default.asp > > Here is a more exact description of such a system: > > A cluster consists of 530 AMD Opteron 64-bit processors (AMD's here > can be replaced with Intel Dual-Core Itanium 2's), 1086 GBytes of > physical memory and more than 11,000 GBytes of storage. The cluster > utilizes SUSE 64-Bit Linux, integrated and optimized using a custom > cluster management software and best practices. > > It is capable of performing 2,332,000,000,000 calculations per second. > The maximum data transfer rate between all the compute engines is 240 > GBytes per second which corresponds to 400 CDs. The car's designs > require simulations of 1.3TB of aerodynamic data - the equivalent of > more than 70,000 volumes of the Encyclopedia Britannica. > > So basically a super computer. > > And you know what, all the above just get some millisecond advantage > over other teams :) Thanks for sharing that with us. With a budget running excess of US$250M IIRC, I am sure the best team can have the advantage.. :) > > All running Linux. > > > G,D n R.. > > Full form? Grin, Duck and Run :) > > Anand Shridhar (A Ferrari fan) -- ______________________________________________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: ([email protected]) List Information: http://plug.org.in/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions.
