Supercomputer for $ 1256
It turns out that you can create a supercomputer from improvised means, and practically on the knee. This was proven by a student and a professor at North American Calvin College who assembled a system called Microwulf from four motherboards for dual-core AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ processors and an eight-port Gigabit Ethernet switch.
Microwulf, running Ubuntu Linux, is currently the smallest supercomputer in the world. The declared system performance is currently equal to 26.25 GFLOPS (billions of floating-point operations per second), which is two times more than that of Deep Blue, famous for its victory over Kasparov in 1997. In addition, Microwulf is also the most inexpensive supercomputer. At its assembly was spent (at the time of the start of the project) only $ 2479. Based on GFLOPS, the cost of Microwulf is also the lowest in the world. Here it is worth remembering again Deep Blue, which cost IBM $ 5 million. But, according to the authors of the project, given the reduction in prices for components, the assembly of such a computer today will cost $ 1,256.
via Gizmowatch
Microwulf, running Ubuntu Linux, is currently the smallest supercomputer in the world. The declared system performance is currently equal to 26.25 GFLOPS (billions of floating-point operations per second), which is two times more than that of Deep Blue, famous for its victory over Kasparov in 1997. In addition, Microwulf is also the most inexpensive supercomputer. At its assembly was spent (at the time of the start of the project) only $ 2479. Based on GFLOPS, the cost of Microwulf is also the lowest in the world. Here it is worth remembering again Deep Blue, which cost IBM $ 5 million. But, according to the authors of the project, given the reduction in prices for components, the assembly of such a computer today will cost $ 1,256.
via Gizmowatch
')
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/13807/
All Articles