The student and professor have collected the most budget supercomputer
Tim Brom, a Calvin college student and professor Joel Adams, assembled the world's smallest and cheapest supercomputer with a performance superior to the legendary Deep Blue, who beat Kasparov in chess in 1997.
The idea of creating a Microwulf supercomputer for educational purposes came to the inventors after they saw the Little Fe portable computer in October 2005. In the summer of 2006, when equipment prices fell (the usual summer practice for iron), Adams asked the training department for $ 2500 to create a supercomputer - and that was how the work went. In January 2007, the system was assembled (and cost $ 2,470), and in March performance tests were passed.
The performance of Microwulf turned out to be 26.25 Gflop (that is, 1 Gflop cost less than $ 100). We achieved it by connecting four dual-core motherboards using a switch with eight gigabit Ethernet ports.
In addition to high performance and low cost, this supercomputer has low power consumption and is connected to a standard 120-volt outlet in the US, so it can be used in any educational institution.
The system is open and everyone can read the instructions for its assembly and configuration. By the way, now "iron" has become even cheaper, so that the cost of assembly has become less.
The idea of creating a Microwulf supercomputer for educational purposes came to the inventors after they saw the Little Fe portable computer in October 2005. In the summer of 2006, when equipment prices fell (the usual summer practice for iron), Adams asked the training department for $ 2500 to create a supercomputer - and that was how the work went. In January 2007, the system was assembled (and cost $ 2,470), and in March performance tests were passed.
The performance of Microwulf turned out to be 26.25 Gflop (that is, 1 Gflop cost less than $ 100). We achieved it by connecting four dual-core motherboards using a switch with eight gigabit Ethernet ports.
In addition to high performance and low cost, this supercomputer has low power consumption and is connected to a standard 120-volt outlet in the US, so it can be used in any educational institution.
The system is open and everyone can read the instructions for its assembly and configuration. By the way, now "iron" has become even cheaper, so that the cost of assembly has become less.
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Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/13809/
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