What Is: Worlds Second Fastest Supercomputer ... developed by an Indian Company in US

[miCRoSCoPiC^eaRthLinG 0]

Hi,

I just happened to come across this - the Second Fastest SuperComputer in the World developed by a collaboration of California Digital, an Indian company based in both US and India and Intel. It's shaped by an immense linux cluster using the Beawolf Cluster Architecture. This happened quite sometime back (middle of last year) but I stumbled upon it a couple of days back. Here are some excerpts from different sites:

 

Indian Power

 

ANAND Babu, who works for California Digital in the USâthe company is owned by an Indianâhas built a supercomputer which is the second-fastest in the world. It has 4096 Itanium2 64 bit processors, 8 TB of RAM, Quadrics Interconnect, and runs GNU/Linux. Codenamed Thunder, the machine boasts more than 20 trillion floating point operations per second, and commands second place in the current Top500 list of the worldâs most powerful supercomputers. All the software Babu has released is under GNU GPL.

 

Read more at ExpressComputer

California Digital & Lawrence Livermore Deploy Fastest Linux Cluster

23 Teraflop Peak System Is World's Second Fastest

 

FREMONT, CA-[May 13, 2004]--Linux cluster vendor California Digital, Quadrics, and Intel today announced that they had successfully deployed the most powerful Linux supercomputer ever built, a 4,096 Itanium2 processor based Linux cluster code named "Thunder" at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

 

The Thunder cluster delivers 19.94 teraflops of sustained performance, making it the most powerful computer in North America. Thunder also boasts the largest Itanium 2 processor deployment, as well as the largest implementation of Quadrics' low-latency QsNet^II interconnect technology. These technologies allow Thunder to achieve record cluster efficiency of 86.9%, an important metric in measuring cluster scalability.

 

"We're proud to have successfully delivered such a ground-breaking Linux cluster with world-record performance and efficiency," reported California Digital CEO B.J.Arun. "Thunder sets important benchmarks for massively-parallel Linux computing."

 

Thunder uses 1,024 California Digital 6440 servers, each with four Intel Itanium2 1.4GHz processors with 4MB of cache, 8GB of RAM, and 73GB of local storage. "Working with California Digital and Lawrence Livermore has been a great opportunity to demonstrate the absolute performance and scalability that can be achieved with Intel's Itanium2 processor" said Intel Enterprise Platforms General Manager Richard Dracott.

 

Thunder's efficiency and scalability rest on the strength of its sophisticated interconnect technology, Quadrics' QsNet^II offering. QsNet^II (Elan4) provides the underlying high bandwidth and low latency MPI communications required by today's demanding scalable applications. With support for broadcast in hardware and scaleable collective operations, QsNet^II scales clusters efficiently to over 4,000 nodes.

 

Read more at California Digital

More links:

1. http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2004-05-19/news/27399538_1_teraflop-supercomputer-earth-simulator

2. http://www.networkworld.com/category/opensource-subnet/

3. http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

4. http://news.a.com.com/

5. http://www.tie.org/view_news?id_news=12

6. http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

 

 

The whole point of putting this news up here to go Hip Hip Hoooraaaaah for Linux my best-est, favourite-est OS. Another BIG Feather in its cap, PLUS, I happen to be a very patriotic Indian - so am extremely PROUD of what an Indian Company could do.

 

Windows - Keep dreaming unsuccessfuly to achieve something even 1/100th of this.... roflmao

[firedoor 0]

20 trillion floating point operations per second

holy flying cee-rap. with a computer like that i might just about be able to run bf1942 on on GFX card. well maybe not.

[anjang86 0]

I go to school at Virginia Tech and it was the talk of the town around here when we used to hold the title of "1st supercomputer" but now I guess we might be 3rd or possibly 4th.You guys might know more about this than I do but has any other University developed a supercomputer besides UNC-Chapel Hill (who developed the first one over two decades ago)?

[miCRoSCoPiC^eaRthLinG 0]

You guys might know more about this than I do but has any other University developed a supercomputer besides UNC-Chapel Hill (who developed the first one over two decades ago)?

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There's a Top500 List of SuperComputers around the world - it's compiled once a year. The 2004 list it existant - but the 2005 one is still being compiled and due to be put up soon. I forgot the exact site - it was something like top500.org - but you can find it by googl-ing "Top500 +supercomputers" - no spaces between "Top" & "500". Well what the hell..I can not be lazy and do it as well. lol.. here it is: https://www.top500.org/ - you'll find all the info about the latest developments in supercomputing front here..

Cheers

[JimBeam1405241475 0]

That is incredible. 8 TB of RAM!!??? Here I was, thinking 1 GB of RAM was a lot these days, and there's computer's out there using multiple TB's! I don't even have close to 1 TB of storage on my HDD's...Sorry I'm rambling on... but that's just unbelievable.

[MunichKangaroos 0]

WOW .... well why dont you have a go at building your own super computer a beo-wulf cluster YAY!!!
Beo-Wulf Cluster Servers

i wanna make one with micro-itx mobos for 3d art network rendering although im sure there will be other uses...

Why dont they stop making faster computers and giving the ppl what they really want ... a way to download porn faster .... lol j/k

[Adwodon 0]

Anyone have a clue how much one of those beasts sets you back? Sheesh gotta be a fair sum *thanks the genius behind 64 bit* TB of ram wont be too unfamiliar with more bit around hehe *dances*Lets just hope they can fit this technology in a laptop before I die

[darkool 0]

which one is the faster ? CIA ? FBI ? INTERPOL ? NASA ? one thing can i sure say : mine it isnt lol the last fast its around 10000 milions faster that mine. so you can imagine how the first one is ....AMD 2600 256 DDR 400mhzTHIS isn't much ...maybe i will buy one of those

[iamrockandroll13 0]

I go to school at Virginia Tech and it was the talk of the town around here when we used to hold the title of "1st supercomputer" but now I guess we might be 3rd or possibly 4th.

 

You guys might know more about this than I do but has any other University developed a supercomputer besides UNC-Chapel Hill (who developed the first one over two decades ago)?

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I know for a fact Carnegie-Mellon University has built at least one before...

[chrls1405241492 0]

What is this, what is this, nobody knows!?