Fastest supercomputer built on the Cell/BE
I have already mentioned in May, that RoadRunner the world’s current fastest supercomputer is built on Cell BE processors, the same platform that eHiTS Lightning runs on. If the Los Alamos Lab chooses Cell Processors then we chose well!
Looks like the mainstraim media is now catching on to the news:
- Infoworld reports: IBM’s Cell-based RoadRunner supercomputer is world’s fastest.
- PC World: IBM’s Cell-based RoadRunner Supercomputer Is World’s Fastest
- GamePro.com: PS3 “Cell” CPU to Power World’s Fastest Supercomputer
- ITportal.com: IBM’s Roadrunner Runs Fastest
- ScienceDaily: World-record Supercomputer Mimics Human Sight Brain Mechanisms
- ITjungle.com: Beep, Beep: Roadrunner Linux Super Breaks the Petaflops Barrier
- Chemical Engineering News: World’s Fastest Computer Debuts
- ACM Technews picks: Europe Prays That Cathedrals to Computing Will Help Industry
The last article in the above list highlights: “Roadrunner was built using 6,912 dual-core Opteron processors from Advanced Micro Devices, and 12,960 IBM Cell eDP accelerators. Early tests indicate that the Cell processors have reached 1.33 petaflops while the Opterons reached 49.8 teraflops”. So twice as many Cells produce 26.7 times more crunching power compared to the dual core Opterons. In an earlier blog post, I have analyzed that advantages of the Cell BE over other acceleration technologies, like GPU and FPGA.
ZZ
August 13th, 2008 at 5:56 pm
Hello,
Compare ibm PowerXCell 8i Processor Specifications (Cell eDP accelerators) , what is the status intel Larrabee with ECC protected L2 cache
and party-protected instruction cache and data cache ??
Best regards