[Beowulf] Roadrunner picture

[Chris Samuel]

----- "Jon Aquilina" <eagles051387 at gmail.com> wrote:

> whats the temperature that somethign thsi big generates
> and what is used to cool it.

Top500 says it's measured at 2.3 megawatts.

> also why opterons wouldnt there be a better performance
> gain from the new 45nm quad core intel's with 12mb cache?

Read the introduction to Roadrunner - the Opterons are
intended to be mostly used as host processors (though I
guess initially they'll be doing more than that as people
will need to do a lot of porting work), the Cell's are
meant to do most of the grunt work.

For instance with Linpack it appears they just used the
Cell to get the petaflop number, they didn't bother to
add the 49TF's from the Opterons..

cheers!
Chris
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