What if 1100 computers joined the fray?
Anonymous
7 Jan 2008 7:10:23 UTC
Topic 13634
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Prime "suspects" are the Albert Einstein Institute's own Merlin/Morgane clusters and the German Astronomy Community Grid (GACG).
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Each of the two mentioned clusters provides CPU time worth roughly half a million credits per day atm.
Merlin/Morgane are actually two Clusters at the AEI: Merlin is now four years old and dying node per node (in the order of 1-2 per week). It originally consisted of 180 dual-CPU Athlon MP machines. Morgane is a cluster of 615 single-socket dual-core Opterons.
The two "e-science" / "Grid" accounts don't actually correspond to single clusters. They are bunches of Einstein@home tasks that are submitted to various clusters / supercomputers (of two different sub-structures) of "The Grid" as ordinary computing jobs. Some of them are clusters of the Numerical Relativity group at AEI, and one is the old Medusa cluster at UWM that Bruce Allen set up 7 years ago, after which Merlin once was modeled and which was the predecessor of Nemo.
Oh, and to the original question: 10 TFlops are impressive, especially at the price, put they are less than 20% of the computing power Einstein@home delivers 24/7 (not only for the time of a benchmark as for the Top500).
BM