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Has anyone here tried to build a supercomputer that has many cpu's networked together?  |
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@trollulz | 29 April 13 |
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I doubt it...
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@edit.or | 29 April 13 |
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i was once interested in writting an operating system.. but it proved to be a complicated task, mainly because manufactors produce hardware and drivers, it would be difficult to control the experience and id end up bound by its rules? i still think i ve got better chance to build my own hardware, maybe one day i ll try with a monitor and a processor determining current and position of lights to lit. i was interested in asm too but again, hardware limits, i suspect it would be
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@banbury | 29 April 13 |
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you need a lot of processors lol probably a few thousand if you want true supercomputer performance. time to open the wallet big time lol. I mean you could save some dosh and buy around 5 million intel atom cpus that might be equivalent to around 3 thousand core i5s lol?! food for thought eh?
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@edit.or | 29 April 13 |
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much useful as access to the graphic card would be a hell and it likely would be hardware dependent.. the cpu is simply not the best solution today.. so a casual user is simply bound away from any low level creation. id likely have to write drivers for all the hardware on the world to enable my code to work universally.. and frankly, im not crazy about that. maybe 1 day i make my hardware and then i wouldnt care about world standards and to support all that. it could be fun
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@plzgvhug | 29 April 13 |
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At Southampton university they made a machine out of 64 raspberry pi boards. That would be enough for me to get started I think.
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@norega | 29 April 13 |
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You can build a supercomputer at home for about 5000 pounds .
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@norega | 29 April 13 |
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A hi end x79 board and a 6 core cpu ,a quadro gpu and a tesla card
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@spartan2 | 30 April 13 |
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Just a bunch of tesla racks if pure teraflop performance is what you want. You only need a couple of hundred and you have a petaflop level machine. It would still cost hundreds of thousands but a petaflop is pretty serious computing performance.
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@norega | 30 April 13 |
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Yeah at industrial level supercomputing telsa is the way to go . But for home use or like they have at university a quadro with a tesla card is a very powerfull machine for 3d work .
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@plzgvhug | 3 May 13 |
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I've just an FPGA development board. Maybe I can have multiple processors in that? 
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