[PLUG] This is seriously good

[श्रीधर नारायण दैठणकर]

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)