Re: Server Speeds - a whole another world [OT]

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texte = But do they do the Earth Simulator in a laptop ?:)-- Stuart Tremainidfk web developments - AustraliaOn Tuesday, 6 August 2002, Andrew Simpson wrote:>After spending some time conducting tests and going oh and ah at the>results i thought aboutlooking around for some real>performance.>>The Highend Xserve is quoted at having 15 Gigaflops of processing power.>You can squeeze480Gb of IDE HardDrive space into them and slap on 2gb of ram. - this>sounds tre'impressive.>The current speed title holder for computers is held by a machine called>the Earth Simulator andis made by NEC.>>This machine is just fantastic.>>It has 37 TeraFlops of processing power. Roughly translated as 37000>gigaflops. It has 10TB ofram, 700Tb of Storage and 1.6Pb of offline storage. 37 TeraFlops is>actually nominalperformance because peak performance is 43TeraFlops. This is not obviously>an off the shelfcomputer as it contains 5104 Processors, 1800 Miles of Copper Cable,>consums three floors of abuilding, each, four tennis courts in>size and is faster than the next 19>fastest computers in theworld combined...>>What is interesting though is, amongst the 5-8000 processor machines in>the top 20 is a little 128Processor Machine by NEC that IS off>the shelf and WILL fit inside a>delivery van and iscompletely scalable from 2 to 512>processors.>>I'm not trying to compare apples with apples but it is just interesting as>all... Apple Make usbelieve that there Hardware is the kick ass>fastestest stuff available and>its just not anywhere nearclose to anything... or maybe i am>just naive.>>When you hear things in the grapevine like I hear google is run on 1600>unix servers youthink, wow computers can't be that fast if they need 1600 of them to power>google. There areother things that make you wonder as well. Our Biggest ISP in New Zealand>is a companycalled Xtra which has 750,000 customers and its core network is still made>up of 486's.>There is defineitly a lot of disparity between what some people think is>fast and what is actuallyfast. - its just interesting is all...>>Well i said it was off topic didn't I???>>All information found here:>www.top500.org>>>>>------------------------------------------------------------->This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to> the mailing list .>To unsubscribe, E-mail to: >To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to >Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/>-------------------------------------------------------------This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list .To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

Re: Server Speeds - a whole another world [OT] (Stuart Tremain 2002)
Server Speeds - a whole another world [OT] (Andrew Simpson 2002)

But do they do the Earth Simulator in a laptop ?:)-- Stuart Tremainidfk web developments - AustraliaOn Tuesday, 6 August 2002, Andrew Simpson wrote:>After spending some time conducting tests and going oh and ah at the>results i thought aboutlooking around for some real>performance.>>The Highend Xserve is quoted at having 15 Gigaflops of processing power.>You can squeeze480Gb of IDE HardDrive space into them and slap on 2gb of ram. - this>sounds tre'impressive.>The current speed title holder for computers is held by a machine called>the Earth Simulator andis made by NEC.>>This machine is just fantastic.>>It has 37 TeraFlops of processing power. Roughly translated as 37000>gigaflops. It has 10TB ofram, 700Tb of Storage and 1.6Pb of offline storage. 37 TeraFlops is>actually nominalperformance because peak performance is 43TeraFlops. This is not obviously>an off the shelfcomputer as it contains 5104 Processors, 1800 Miles of Copper Cable,>consums three floors of abuilding, each, four tennis courts in>size and is faster than the next 19>fastest computers in theworld combined...>>What is interesting though is, amongst the 5-8000 processor machines in>the top 20 is a little 128Processor Machine by NEC that IS off>the shelf and WILL fit inside a>delivery van and iscompletely scalable from 2 to 512>processors.>>I'm not trying to compare apples with apples but it is just interesting as>all... Apple Make usbelieve that there Hardware is the kick ass>fastestest stuff available and>its just not anywhere nearclose to anything... or maybe i am>just naive.>>When you hear things in the grapevine like I hear google is run on 1600>unix servers youthink, wow computers can't be that fast if they need 1600 of them to power>google. There areother things that make you wonder as well. Our Biggest ISP in New Zealand>is a companycalled Xtra which has 750,000 customers and its core network is still made>up of 486's.>There is defineitly a lot of disparity between what some people think is>fast and what is actuallyfast. - its just interesting is all...>>Well i said it was off topic didn't I???>>All information found here:>www.top500.org>>>>>------------------------------------------------------------->This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to> the mailing list .>To unsubscribe, E-mail to: >To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to >Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/>-------------------------------------------------------------This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list .To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/ Stuart Tremain

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