Formula 1 Computers

[Ototero]

Just read this in the April edition of Computer Shopper (UK).

"Sauber Petronas made a big fuss about it's latest super computer, codenamed Albert, which it claimed is the fastest in F1.

Built by Dalco and used for computational fluid dynamics, it cost £2.25 million and contains no fewer than 530 64-bit AMD Opteron processors.

This absolute beast of a computer is housed in 10 cabinets, each 2.3m high, 1.2m deep and im wide."


What a DC machinr that would make :shock:

[NeoGen]

They could very well put it running something useful. I don't believe they leave it running fluid dynamics 24 hours a day! :P

[carlos]

They could very well put it running something useful. I don't believe they leave it running fluid dynamics 24 hours a day! :P

I believe they do.:cool:

Carlos

[NeoGen]

Yea... maybe in the beggining that they need the calculations done faster, but later on in the season they probably won't make use of such a computational power so much....

...or if they do, they could open a DC project :)

[markdeacon]

get em on our team for bbc climate change experiment. wooooo

[Steve Lux]

List of top 50 supercomputers for 2005. Where is AMD?

Rank, Site/Location, Computer, Processors, Year made, Rmax, Rpeak

1 DOE/NNSA/LLNL
United States BlueGene/L - eServer Blue Gene Solution
IBM 131072 2005 280600 367000

2 IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
United States BGW - eServer Blue Gene Solution
IBM 40960 2005 91290 114688

3 DOE/NNSA/LLNL
United States ASC Purple - eServer pSeries p5 575 1.9 GHz
IBM 10240 2005 63390 77824

4 NASA/Ames Research Center/NAS
United States Columbia - SGI Altix 1.5 GHz, Voltaire Infiniband
SGI 10160 2004 51870 60960

5 Sandia National Laboratories
United States Thunderbird - PowerEdge 1850, 3.6 GHz, Infiniband
Dell 8000 2005 38270 64512

6 Sandia National Laboratories
United States Red Storm Cray XT3, 2.0 GHz
Cray Inc. 10880 2005 36190 43520

7 The Earth Simulator Center
Japan Earth-Simulator
NEC 5120 2002 35860 40960

8 Barcelona Supercomputer Center
Spain MareNostrum - JS20 Cluster, PPC 970, 2.2 GHz, Myrinet
IBM 4800 2005 27910 42144

9 ASTRON/University Groningen
Netherlands Stella - eServer Blue Gene Solution
IBM 12288 2005 27450 34406.4

10 Oak Ridge National Laboratory
United States Jaguar - Cray XT3, 2.4 GHz
Cray Inc. 5200 2005 20527 24960

11 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
United States Thunder - Intel Itanium2 Tiger4 1.4GHz - Quadrics
California Digital Corporation 4096 2004 19940 22938

12 Computational Biology Research Center, AIST
Japan Blue Protein - eServer Blue Gene Solution
IBM 8192 2005 18200 22937.6

13 Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
Switzerland eServer Blue Gene Solution
IBM 8192 2005 18200 22937.6

14 ERDC MSRC
United States Cray XT3, 2.6 GHz
Cray Inc. 4096 2005 16975 21299

15 COLSA
United States MACH5 - Apple XServe, 2.0 GHz, Myrinet
Self-made 3072 2005 16180 24576

16 Korea Meteorological Administration
Korea, South Cray X1E (4GB)
Cray Inc. 1020 2005 15706 18442

17 Oak Ridge National Laboratory
United States Cray X1E (2GB)
Cray Inc. 1014 2005 14955 18333

18 Los Alamos National Laboratory
United States ASCI Q - AlphaServer SC45, 1.25 GHz
Hewlett-Packard 8192 2002 13880 20480

19 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
United States eServer pSeries p5 575 1.9 GHz
IBM 2048 2005 13090 15564.8

20 Virginia Tech
United States System X - 1100 Dual 2.3 GHz Apple XServe/Mellanox Infiniband 4X/Cisco GigE
Self-made 2200 2004 12250 20240

21 Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute
Japan SGI Altix 3700 Bx2, 1.6 GHz, NUMALink
SGI 2048 2005 11814 13107

22 IBM - Rochester
United States BlueGene/L DD1 Prototype (0.5GHz PowerPC 440 w/Custom)
IBM 8192 2004 11680 16384

23 Wright-Patterson Air Force Base/DoD ASC
United States SGI Altix 3700 Bx2, 1.6 GHz, NUMALink
SGI 2048 2003 11652 13107

24 University of Southern California
United States HPC - Pentium4 Xeon, EM64T, Opteron, Opteron dual core, Cluster, Myrinet
IBM 2904 2005 10750 17280

25 US Army Research Laboratory (ARL)
United States John Von Neumann - LNX Cluster, Xeon 3.6 GHz, Myrinet
Linux Networx 2048 2005 10650 14745.6

26 China Meteorological Administration
China eServer pSeries 655 (1.7 GHz Power4+)
IBM 3200 2005 10310 21760

27 Naval Oceanographic Office (NAVOCEANO)
United States eServer pSeries 655 (1.7 GHz Power4+)
IBM 2944 2004 10310 20019.2

28 NCSA
United States Tungsten - PowerEdge 1750, P4 Xeon 3.06 GHz, Myrinet
Dell 2500 2003 9819 15300

29 IBM - Almaden Research Center
United States eServer Blue Gene Solution
IBM 4096 2005 9360 11468.8

30 IBM - Deep Computing Capacity on Demand Center
United States eServer Blue Gene Solution
IBM 4096 2005 9360 11468.8

31 IBM Research
Switzerland eServer Blue Gene Solution
IBM 4096 2005 9360 11468.8

32 IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
United States eServer Blue Gene Solution
IBM 4096 2005 9360 11468.8

33 ECMWF
United Kingdom eServer pSeries 690 (1.9 GHz Power4+)
IBM 2176 2004 9241 16538

34 ECMWF
United Kingdom eServer pSeries 690 (1.9 GHz Power4+)
IBM 2176 2004 9241 16538

35 UCSD/San Diego Supercomputer Center
United States DataStar - eServer pSeries 655/690 (1.5/1.7 GHz Power4+)
IBM 2464 2005 9121 15628

36 Australian Partnership for Advanced Computing (APAC)
Australia SGI Altix 3700 Bx2, 1.6 GHz, NUMALink
SGI 1536 2005 8974 9830

37 HWW/Universitaet Stuttgart
Germany SX8/576M72
NEC 576 2005 8923 9216

38 Hitachi Ltd. Enterprise Server Division
Japan SR11000-K1
Hitachi 80 2005 8893 10752

39 Institute of Physical and Chemical Res. (RIKEN)
Japan RIKEN Super Combined Cluster
Fujitsu 2048 2004 8728 12534

40 Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
United States Mpp2 - Cluster Platform 6000 rx2600 Itanium2 1.5 GHz, Quadrics
Hewlett-Packard 1936 2003 8633 11616

41 Caltech
United States CITerra - PowerEdge 1850, 3.2 GHz, Myrinet
Dell 2048 2005 8408 13107.2

42 Shanghai Supercomputer Center
China Dawning 4000A, Opteron 2.2 GHz, Myrinet
Dawning 2560 2004 8061 11264

43 Los Alamos National Laboratory
United States Lightning - Opteron 2 GHz, Myrinet
Linux Networx 2816 2003 8051 11264

44 Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
United States Cray XT3, 2.4 GHz
Cray Inc. 2060 2005 7935.82 9888

45 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
United States MCR Linux Cluster Xeon 2.4 GHz - Quadrics
Linux Networx 2304 2002 7634 11060

46 HPCx
United Kingdom eServer pSeries p5 575 1.5 GHz
IBM 1536 2005 7395 9216

47 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
United States ASCI White, SP Power3 375 MHz
IBM 8192 2000 7304 12288

48 NERSC/LBNL
United States Seaborg - SP Power3 375 MHz 16 way
IBM 6656 2002 7304 9984

49 NCSA
United States TeraGrid, Itanium2 1.3/1.5 GHZ, Myrinet
IBM 1776 2004 7215 10259

50 US Army Research Laboratory (ARL)
United States eServer Opteron 2.2 GHz. Myrinet
IBM 2320 2004 7185 10208


I want to be proud of my AMD, but I gotta have results.

[NeoGen]

AMD itself doesn't produce supercomputers... but I know that at least one model of Cray supercomputers uses AMDs (loads of them at once! :shock:)
Who knows if some of the others have "AMD Inside" too? ;)

[Nflight]

ON that list #42, #43, & #50 have opterons in them. Read the entire list closely.

There is AMD's in the top 50. :roll:

[NeoGen]

I hadn't noticed that. Great catch! :)

That made me want to take a closer look at those monsters...
http://www.top500.org


For example, number 6 is equiped with "AMD x86_64 Opteron 2000 MHz (4 GFlops)" but doesn't say how many.

EDIT: Wait... yes it says... 10,880 of them!!! :shock:

[AMDave]

I'd love to borrow one of those for a day. What about you?
10,000+ cpu's! Dang. Can't afford the electricity bill.
Not even for a day. :shock:

Imagine the power if you had them all running the same project at the same time. I recon some of those projects we do might get finished in about a week. Some of the stats are just unbelievable.