nilayz Posted September 25, 2005 Share Posted September 25, 2005 Only Processor, RAM, HDD Space doesnt make a Gaming machine U missed out a vital component called GFX card I don't think there's any graphics card... after all, it wasn't built to play games Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
max123 Posted September 25, 2005 Share Posted September 25, 2005 nilayz is right ; it wasn't meant to play games Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myscrnnm II Posted September 26, 2005 Share Posted September 26, 2005 nilayz is right ; it wasn't meant to play games It would make a fine server though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nilayz Posted September 26, 2005 Author Share Posted September 26, 2005 nilayz is right ; it wasn't meant to play games It would make a fine server though. Hmm... nice idea. But what else do you think is this being used for now ??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myscrnnm II Posted September 26, 2005 Share Posted September 26, 2005 nilayz is right ; it wasn't meant to play games It would make a fine server though. Hmm... nice idea. But what else do you think is this being used for now ??? What with that much hard disk space. Perhaps it is used for storage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nilayz Posted September 26, 2005 Author Share Posted September 26, 2005 Why will simply storage require these many processors? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myscrnnm II Posted September 26, 2005 Share Posted September 26, 2005 Why will simply storage require these many processors? Maybe the CPUs were just there. After all, it is like a cluster. And using several HDDs with small storage is easier to find than one HDD with huge storage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spaceman3750 Posted September 26, 2005 Share Posted September 26, 2005 According to nyaliz, it was a project at some university somewhere... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lappy512 Posted September 26, 2005 Share Posted September 26, 2005 you can see that the picture comes from http://krone.physik.unizh.ch/~stadel/pictu...xOpenJuly03.jpg Then, you can go to http://krone.physik.unizh.ch/~stadel/ I am the principal author of the simulation code PKDGRAV and co-developer of its hydrodynamics extension called GASOLINE. PKDGRAV runs efficiently on very large parallel computers and has produced some of the world's highest resolution simulations of cosmic structures. When I arrived in Zurich, world-class simulation work in astrophysics could not be supported by the available computing resources in Switzerland, which led us into designing and building a new 288 CPU parallel computer called the "zBox". Our novel design has proven itself; the zBox has been running for over 2.5 years with exceptional stability, and has enabled fundamental research in astrophysics. We are now building (and already using) the "zBox2", a machine with 500 CPUs and a more than 5-fold increase in computing capability. The machine is called the Zbox. More information here: http://krone.physik.unizh.ch/~stadel/zBox/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myscrnnm II Posted October 3, 2005 Share Posted October 3, 2005 Still, the IBM Bluegene family line of computers is more powerful than this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GameClaw_268 Posted October 3, 2005 Share Posted October 3, 2005 And so is Prairie Fire, UNL's supercomputer, which is also bigger and more organised. And they do have some gfx renderer somewhere, so they can tell you what's going on... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myscrnnm II Posted October 4, 2005 Share Posted October 4, 2005 And so is Prairie Fire, UNL's supercomputer, which is also bigger and more organised. And they do have some gfx renderer somewhere, so they can tell you what's going on... But there is no computer in the world that is more poweful than the IBM Bluegene. Also, bigger isn't always better. In fact, in today's world, bigger is worse, in a world full of miniaturization. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp6108 Posted October 9, 2005 Share Posted October 9, 2005 that is amazing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
myscrnnm II Posted October 9, 2005 Share Posted October 9, 2005 that is amazing Indeed it is. It also goes to show that IBM is a symbol of American innovation. They also invented one of the most recognizable features in the computer world, the iconic cursor. While some people refer to it as the mouse, or the pointy-thing, it is instantly recognizable, and we owe it all to IBM. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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