Posted Tuesday 17th March 2009 10:36 GMT
Err great and all that but with the monopoly on international bandwidth how are they going to share all that data...?
Posted Tuesday 17th March 2009 11:00 GMT
Hamsters.
Lots and lots of hamsters running in little wheels.
Have you seen the CSIR's feed bill lately?
Posted Tuesday 17th March 2009 14:45 GMT
Presumably all that computing power is needed to overcome the logistical nightmare of counting all the votes of South African expats living overseas who have just been re-enfranchised by the Constitutional Court, at great expense to the South African economy. See what you lot have done?
Posted Tuesday 17th March 2009 21:45 GMT
The humanity!
Where's MB when you need him!!!
Posted Friday 20th March 2009 10:40 GMT
I wonder why, "Sun is also building a visualization system for the supercomputing center and linking it all up with InfiniBand switches from Voltaire"
SUN has a set of InfiniBand Switches....
http://www.sun.com/products/networking/infiniband.jsp
Ranging from 0-288 nodes...
http://www.sun.com/products/networking/datacenter/ds3x24/
to 13,824 nodes...
http://www.sun.com/products/networking/datacenter/ds3456/
Is there a sweet-spot somewhere in the mid-range of nodes on the South African super computer to make the SUN InfiniBand Switches cost-effective?
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