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Bull waves red flag at HPC with blade supers

Phil Endecott

15% UPS waste? Really? 

I'll let others comment on the ridiculous name and make a couple of serious comments:

- If your simulation has been running for 2 months, you really should have been taking snapshots periodically.

- If you were powering your system by charging a battery from the mains and then switching over to power the processor from the battery, then a 15% loss in that process would be impressively good (30% is more likely). But a UPS should not be operating like that: the only loss should be the energy needed to trickle-charge the batteries, which should be tiny. If your UPS is not operating in that way you should fix your UPS, not re-architect your power system around it.

Scott Broukell

Mon Dieu (Bullx) 

Joke

Ces't un load of old B*llocks, n'est pas ?

Did they think this branding through at all.

Like the McDonalds Big Tasty - how does that order sound in a Yorkshire accent - "Have you got two big testies?"

Anonymous Coward

Stuff.... 

Happy

Well, Bullx could be a reference to young Bulls - Bullocks, but typical of the french to miss this classic 'interpretation' ;-)

On a pedantic note, 10 x 10 is not 1000!

"...a 42U rack with 108 blades will peak out at around 10 teraflops. So, ten racks of these puppies and you are at 1 petaflops,"

!0 racks of 10 Teraflops = 100 Teraflops

100 racks of 10 Teraflops = 1000 Teraflops, or 1 Petaflop :-)