my little tour at a supercomputer

2011-05-11 13:33:31

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menzo: ̏̏̏̏̏̏̏̏&#; +616|6674|Amsterdam‫

Site SARA (Stichting Academisch Rekencentrum)
System Family IBM pSeries
System Model pSeries 575
Computer Power 575, p6 4.7 GHz, Infiniband
Vendor IBM
Application area Not Specified
Installation Year 2009
156th fastest supercomputer in 2010
Operating System Linux
Interconnect Infiniband
Processor POWER6 4700 MHz (18.8 GFlops)

Cares: 3456
Rmax(GFlops): 50923.93
Rpeak(GFlops): 64972.8

the racks

front end, 32cores per motherboard, with 256gig ram per motherboard

160Gbit interconnect between the storage and the computing end

the storage 300gig 1500RPM disks, 3PB is i remember correctly there are 15racks or this

the tape storage of the data center, something of 15PB there

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2011-05-11 13:35:23

#2

liquidat0r: wtf.; +2,223|6855|UK

The racks have green on them, it must be a supercomputer!

2011-05-11 13:37:19

#3

menzo: ̏̏̏̏̏̏̏̏&#; +616|6674|Amsterdam‫

green is the colour of speed

they also had a little screen array that had a resolution of 12800x4800

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2011-05-11 15:22:50

#4

CC-Marley: Member; +407|7056

In five years it'll be junk. Right?

2011-05-11 15:35:33

#5

Superior Mind: (not macbeth); +1,755|6920

How much is a Pb?

x

2011-05-11 15:36:04

#6

Sturgeon: Member; +488|5168|Flintshire

Petabyte = 1024 Terabytes
Terabyte = 1024 Gigabytes

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2011-05-11 15:37:10

#7

Superior Mind: (not macbeth); +1,755|6920

Dang

x

2011-05-11 15:37:31

#8

Sturgeon: Member; +488|5168|Flintshire

Basically a lot of porn

2011-05-11 15:38:07

#9

Superior Mind: (not macbeth); +1,755|6920

All of the porn

x

2011-05-11 15:52:49

#10

Morpheus: This shit still going?; +508|6227|The Mitten

They could download a car.

EE (hats

2011-05-11 16:06:54

#11

Ilocano: buuuurrrrrrppppp.......; +341|6895

Tape instead of local or offsite SAN?

2011-05-11 16:13:32

#12

KEN-JENNINGS: I am all that is MOD!; +2,978|6859|949

Can't tape be a part of a SAN?

2011-05-11 16:17:16

#13

jsnipy: ...; +3,276|6750|...

KEN-JENNINGS wrote:
Can't tape be a part of a SAN?

no (not typically)

Ilocano wrote:
Tape instead of local or offsite SAN?

still cheaper per gb me thinks

2011-05-11 16:26:18

#14

mikkel: Member; +383|6829

A lot cheaper than offsite with those data volumes.

2011-05-11 20:38:11

#15

unnamednewbie13: Moderator; +2,053|6999|PNW

Can it run Crysis?

2011-05-12 09:50:15

#16

menzo: ̏̏̏̏̏̏̏̏&#; +616|6674|Amsterdam‫

the tape was in a special room with huge firedoors, and when there is fire they pump the room full with argon to remove the oxygen, and all the tapes are mirrored with a 2nd data center.

2011-05-12 10:46:48

#17

Finray: Hup! Dos, Tres, Cuatro; +2,629|6016|Catherine Black

menzo wrote:
when there is fire

They must be using Fermi then.

2011-05-12 11:11:59

#18

menzo: ̏̏̏̏̏̏̏̏&#; +616|6674|Amsterdam‫

Finray wrote:
menzo wrote:
when there is fire
They must be using Fermi then.

ha

2011-05-12 11:16:16

#19

max: Vela Incident; +1,652|6795|NYC / Hamburg

cool

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2011-05-12 11:26:27

#20

Ilocano: buuuurrrrrrppppp.......; +341|6895

You'd be surprised how often fires happen in datacenters. One of our SAN datacenters did just that, twice, last year and a few months ago. All it takes is failure of the cooling system.

2011-05-12 13:56:38

#21

Freezer7Pro: I don't come here a lot anymore.; +1,447|6425|Winland

max wrote:
cool

Actually, I think the opposite is true.

The idea of any hi-fi system is to reproduce the source material as faithfully as possible, and to deliberately add distortion to everything you hear (due to amplifier deficiencies) because it sounds 'nice' is simply not high fidelity. If that is what you want to hear then there is no problem with that, but by adding so much additional material (by way of harmonics and intermodulation) you have a tailored sound system, not a hi-fi. - Rod Elliot, ESP

2011-05-12 13:58:09

#22

Dauntless: Admin; +2,249|6970|London

nice one there freezer

2011-05-12 14:06:40

#23

menzo: ̏̏̏̏̏̏̏̏&#; +616|6674|Amsterdam‫

it was quite cool, also because the CPUs all were water cooled, from 5 °C -> 25 °C. The air was a just a bit warmer in the back that was used to cool the rest

2011-05-12 14:19:22

#24

Camm: Feeding the Cats.; +761|5196|Dundee, Scotland.

menzo wrote:
it was quite cool, also because the CPUs all were water cooled, from 5 °C -> 25 °C. The air was a just a bit warmer in the back that was used to cool the rest

ALL 32 PER BOARD WERE WATER COOLED

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for a fatty you're a serious intellectual lightweight.

2011-05-12 14:23:32

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menzo: ̏̏̏̏̏̏̏̏&#; +616|6674|Amsterdam‫

Camm wrote:
menzo wrote:
it was quite cool, also because the CPUs all were water cooled, from 5 °C -> 25 °C. The air was a just a bit warmer in the back that was used to cool the rest
ALL 32 PER BOARD WERE WATER COOLED

yeh i saw a pic of it copper pipes everywhere

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