New Cray Super Computer, with Windows loaded

[cpuchess]

I wouldn't mind having one of these, I bet Rybka would be awesome on this along with everything else.

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Cray-S ... ,6368.html

I will take the 16 Xeon quad core configuration please

[tjfroh]

John,

At 1600 Watts and 13.33 Amps at 120 volts this toaster would warm you on cold winter nights. Since it would compute at dozens of times the speed of conventional machines you wouldn't need to leave in on as long.

It is a bargain at $9000.00 USD.

Tj

I wouldn't mind having one of these, I bet Rybka would be awesome on this along with everything else.

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Cray-S ... ,6368.html

I will take the 16 Xeon quad core configuration please

[Zach Wegner]

Think again, the case costs $9,000 alone. Each node goes for at least a few thousand. You could get 16 x quad Xeons=64 cores with 256GB RAM total. Not too bad.

[Terry McCracken]

Think again, the case costs $9,000 alone. Each node goes for at least a few thousand. You could get 16 x quad Xeons=64 cores with 256GB RAM total. Not too bad.

Wouldn't it play a nice game of chess? All it needs is Deep Rybka 3 or Crafty as the latter could really put those cores to use!

What do you think Bob?

[sje]

Does the Windows version come with thirty gigabytes of pre-installed advertisements for unneeded programs and services?

Apple is not blameless in this area, as their machines have become burdened with a similar in kind delivery bloat.

If you want high performance computing, get Linux. It's fast, it's free, and it comes with 150,000 support geeks on the net working 24 hours a day just for glory.

[Chris Taylor]

[quote="cpuchess"]I wouldn't mind having one of these, I bet Rybka would be awesome on this along with everything else.

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Cray-S ... ,6368.html

I will take the 16 Xeon quad core configuration please [/quote]


Hi

Well two of them for auto232ing? Kinda like to see who is the better of the chess programs, and at tournament time....

Chris

[CThinker]

Does the Windows version come with thirty gigabytes of pre-installed advertisements for unneeded programs and services?

Apple is not blameless in this area, as their machines have become burdened with a similar in kind delivery bloat.

If you want high performance computing, get Linux. It's fast, it's free, and it comes with 150,000 support geeks on the net working 24 hours a day just for glory.

Windows HPC does not even have a GUI. It is extremely light. Installation from the network is automated (if you have WDS/PXE). You don't need 150,000 geeks. It just works right out of the box. No hacking needed.

[bob]

Cray makes good stuff. I've already run on an 8xquad box, although not this particular Cray product. They look good. I might try to bug some people I know up there and see if they have something I can test on. Maybe there will be a "Cray Crafty" at some point since they are now back into the kind of machine that is attractive, price-wise.

[sje]

For a better deal on just about any configuration, I'd use Mac Pro boxes. Each has two of the same four core Xeon processor, except that the Macs can be optioned with 3.2 GHz speeds instead of the base 2.8 GHz. Each can be configured with up to 32 GB of fast FB-DIMM RAM. (Buy the RAM from a third party, of course.)

http://store.apple.com/us_smb_78313/bro ... ly/mac_pro

The base eight core Mac Pro goes for US$2,800 retail which is rather less than the US$9,000 starter price for the Cray Mini. The Mac also comes standard with a pair of 1 Gb Ethernet ports, and fast slots for adding fiber or other high speed networking cards.

For those with money but without much cabinet space, Apple also has an Xserve rackmount with similar performance.

http://store.apple.com/us_smb_78313/bro ... ily/xserve

[M ANSARI]

Intel Skulltrail D5400XS = $579
Intel E5430 = 2 x $425 = $850
4GB DDR 800 FBDIMMS A-DATA = $150
2x Tuniq 120 towers = $100
Good 1000+ watt P = $200

Everything mentioned up here is around $1850 ... add to that a normal PCI Xpress VGA card, a hard disk, DVD Drive and a LCD monitor and you could probably get this powerful system for around $2100 to $2200 all inclusive (depending on the size of the hard disk and monitor). I guarantee anyone with this system that he can run it 24/7 at 3.2 Ghz by simply changing the memory from 667 Mhz to 800 Mhz and simply going into the BIOS and adding the first voltage setting. The temps with the Tuniq Towers at 3.2 Ghz would be much less that the temperatures of a normal HSF at the default 2.66 Ghz.

I guess you could setup 10 of these in an array and connect them by network and that would cost around $17,000. That would be 80 cores at 3.2 Ghz and would probably run on the cluster windows that the Cray is running on. I cannot imagine what an 80 core Cray would cost, but I am sure it is much more than that.