[Beowulf] Roadrunner shutdown

[Bret Stouder]

Prentice:

For the money you could buy a lot more real computational cycles that last a lot longer than anything proprietary from IBM.  The reason the Origins have been out of production for a long time is the result of research moving to a commodity server platform.  Taken a look at what Cray offers lately?  Looks a lot like commodity.  If you are going to take the time to port code, it seems that a reasonable argument could be made to stay away from Blue Gene and port to Cuda or Phi.  

Bret

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From: beowulf-bounces at beowulf.org [mailto:beowulf-bounces at beowulf.org] On Behalf Of Prentice Bisbal
Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2013 8:23 AM
To: beowulf at beowulf.org
Subject: Re: [Beowulf] Roadrunner shutdown

Bret,

You lost me, and I think many other beowulfers on that one. If you look at the top 500, there's plenty of Blue Genes near the top, and Origins have been out of production for a very long time.

Prentice


On 04/02/2013 10:52 AM, Bret Stouder wrote:
> A great example of why Xeon or Opteron and now PHI and Kepler make a whole lot more sense than Blue Gene or Origin.  :)  Commodity off the shelf hardware and software solutions continue to make the world go round...............
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>> I suspect it's a combination of factors..  power consumption is one, 
>> age is another.  At a certain point, you start having maintenance 
>> issues (Prentice's  #5 (and maybe the half dozen people who really 
>> understand how box A works are now working on box B, Prentice's #3, 
>> below), and it's time to start over.
> In a similar vain, I would guess that another straw on the back of Road Runner is the fact that it is a unique design with no next generation or upgrade path.
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> I also know that I/O rates are an important design requirement for these machines that, of course, is not addressed by HPL rank (but makes for good news stories).
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