Re: Re: [Beowulf] Roadrunner picture

2008-07-16 Thread Maurice Hilarius
Jon Aquilina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ..also why opterons wouldnt there be a better performance gain from the new 45nm quad core intel's with 12mb cache? The memory bandwidth on the XEONS is quite restrictive for many types of calculations, plus the overall power consumption on large memory

Re: [Beowulf] Roadrunner picture

2008-07-16 Thread Andrew Robbie (GMail)
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 12:35 AM, Josip Loncaric [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another good link: http://www.lanl.gov/orgs/hpc/roadrunner/rrtechnicalseminars2008.shtml As I was reading the slides, one question leap out at me: they have a huge IB network connecting every 'node', but instead of

Re: [Beowulf] Roadrunner picture

2008-07-16 Thread John Hearns
On Thu, 2008-07-17 at 04:42 +1000, Andrew Robbie (GMail) wrote: On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 12:35 AM, Josip Loncaric [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another good link: http://www.lanl.gov/orgs/hpc/roadrunner/rrtechnicalseminars2008.shtml As I was reading the slides, one question leap out at me:

Re: [Beowulf] Roadrunner picture

2008-07-16 Thread John Hearns
On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 23:29 +0100, John Hearns wrote: To answer your question more directly, Panasas is a storage cluster to complement your compute cluster. Each storage blade is connected into a shelf (chassis) with an internal ethernet network. Each shelf is then connected to your

Re: [Beowulf] Roadrunner picture

2008-07-16 Thread Scott Atchley
On Jul 16, 2008, at 6:50 PM, John Hearns wrote: On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 23:29 +0100, John Hearns wrote: To answer your question more directly, Panasas is a storage cluster to complement your compute cluster. Each storage blade is connected into a shelf (chassis) with an internal ethernet

Re: [Beowulf] Roadrunner picture

2008-07-15 Thread Jon Aquilina
whats the temperature that somethign thsi big generates and what is used to cool it. also why opterons wouldnt there be a better performance gain from the new 45nm quad core intel's with 12mb cache? On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 4:35 PM, Josip Loncaric [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Egan Ford wrote:

Re: [Beowulf] Roadrunner picture

2008-07-15 Thread Chris Samuel
- Jon Aquilina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: whats the temperature that somethign thsi big generates and what is used to cool it. Top500 says it's measured at 2.3 megawatts. also why opterons wouldnt there be a better performance gain from the new 45nm quad core intel's with 12mb cache?

Re: [Beowulf] Roadrunner picture

2008-07-14 Thread Josip Loncaric
Egan Ford wrote: Perhaps this will help: http://www.lanl.gov/roadrunner/ And: http://www.lanl.gov/orgs/hpc/roadrunner/pdfs/Koch%20-%20Roadrunner%20Overvie w/RR%20Seminar%20-%20System%20Overview.pdf Pages 20 - 29 IANS, the triblade is really a quadblade, blade 1 is the Opteron Blade, blade 2

RE: [Beowulf] Roadrunner picture

2008-06-13 Thread Egan Ford
: Beowulf Mailing List Subject: Re: [Beowulf] Roadrunner picture Dear all: Thanks for all the responses. I was at the Roadrunner booth at SC07. They had a handout explaining the Roadrunner architecture which also has a picture of racks of blades (maybe not of Roadrunner, but blades

[Beowulf] Roadrunner picture

2008-06-12 Thread Bernard Li
Hi all: I am sure most people have seen the following picture for Roadrunner circulating the Net: http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/06/09/fastest.computer.ap/index.html?iref=newssearch However, they don't look likes blades to me, more like 2U IBM x series servers. Perhaps those are the I/O nodes?

Re: [Beowulf] Roadrunner picture

2008-06-12 Thread Prentice Bisbal
Bernard Li wrote: Hi all: I am sure most people have seen the following picture for Roadrunner circulating the Net: http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/06/09/fastest.computer.ap/index.html?iref=newssearch However, they don't look likes blades to me, more like 2U IBM x series servers. Perhaps

Re: [Beowulf] Roadrunner picture

2008-06-12 Thread John Leidel
Also at ComputerWorld: http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasicarticleId=9085021intsrc=news_ts_head On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 12:45 -0700, Bernard Li wrote: Hi all: I am sure most people have seen the following picture for Roadrunner circulating the Net:

Re: [Beowulf] Roadrunner picture

2008-06-12 Thread Peter St. John
Bernard, I'm looking forward to hearing from our resident experts, but meanwhile: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Roadrunner exlains the architecture some. The buzzword is triblade, which is 3 blades (with an extension) employing two types of processors (AMD Opteron and IBM Cell) in a

Re: [Beowulf] Roadrunner picture

2008-06-12 Thread Prentice Bisbal
Bernard Li wrote: Hi all: I am sure most people have seen the following picture for Roadrunner circulating the Net: http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/06/09/fastest.computer.ap/index.html?iref=newssearch However, they don't look likes blades to me, more like 2U IBM x series servers. Perhaps

Re: [Beowulf] Roadrunner picture

2008-06-12 Thread richard . walsh
All, Not a expert, but I know a thing or two. The triblade is two CB2 blades which each hold each two PowerXCell processors in a cc-NUMA arrangement. They sandwch a LS21 blade that is connected to each through a 16x PCIe to HT bridge. These three are uni-body constructed. The CB2s resemble the

Re: [Beowulf] Roadrunner picture

2008-06-12 Thread Bernard Li
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