Japanese supercomputer to use 10,480 Opteron cores

[chrisv]

"As planned the Tokyo Tech system will be the world's largest and
fastest cluster as measured by core CPU count and peak performance,
respectively. It will include more than 21 terabytes of memory and 1.1
petabytes of hard disk storage, again exceeding all competing systems
within the Asia-Pacific region. There are planned increases in
performance to beyond 100 teraFLOPS"

http://www.reed-electronics.com/electronicnews/article/CA6283807?nid=2019

 

[Yousuf Khan]

"As planned the Tokyo Tech system will be the world's largest and
fastest cluster as measured by core CPU count and peak performance,
respectively. It will include more than 21 terabytes of memory and 1.1
petabytes of hard disk storage, again exceeding all competing systems
within the Asia-Pacific region. There are planned increases in
performance to beyond 100 teraFLOPS"

http://www.reed-electronics.com/electronicnews/article/CA6283807?nid=2019

And apparently, the Register says that they're going to be using Sun's
upcoming 8-socket server. A server that hasn't even been introduced yet.

Yousuf Khan

 

[EdG]

"As planned the Tokyo Tech system will be the world's largest and
fastest cluster as measured by core CPU count and peak performance,
respectively. It will include more than 21 terabytes of memory and 1.1
petabytes of hard disk storage, again exceeding all competing systems
within the Asia-Pacific region. There are planned increases in
performance to beyond 100 teraFLOPS"

http://www.reed-electronics.com/electronicnews/article/CA6283807?nid=2019

WWW-III here we come!

 

[YKhan]

Here's another article about it from Extremetech. Goes into a bit more
detail about it, talking about how they're going to be using a math
function offload engine called the Clearspeed Advance accelerator
board. It's apparently got a library that determines at runtime whether
to do the calculation inside the Opterons, or to offload it towards the
Clearspeed boards. They expect to increase its teraFLOPS rating by
going from 360 Clearspeeds to 600 of them.

Also it's going to be one of the first supercomputers using Solaris
rather than Linux alone. This system will have Linux in the mix too,
but it will be alongside Solaris.

Sun, AMD Land Their Largest Supercomputer Deal
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1887548,00.asp