Prentice: For the money you could buy a lot more real computational cycles that last a lot longer than anything proprietary from IBM. The reason the Origins have been out of production for a long time is the result of research moving to a commodity server platform. Taken a look at what Cray offers lately? Looks a lot like commodity. If you are going to take the time to port code, it seems that a reasonable argument could be made to stay away from Blue Gene and port to Cuda or Phi.
Bret -----Original Message----- From: beowulf-boun...@beowulf.org [mailto:beowulf-boun...@beowulf.org] On Behalf Of Prentice Bisbal Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2013 8:23 AM To: beowulf@beowulf.org Subject: Re: [Beowulf] Roadrunner shutdown Bret, You lost me, and I think many other beowulfers on that one. If you look at the top 500, there's plenty of Blue Genes near the top, and Origins have been out of production for a very long time. Prentice On 04/02/2013 10:52 AM, Bret Stouder wrote: > A great example of why Xeon or Opteron and now PHI and Kepler make a whole > lot more sense than Blue Gene or Origin. :) Commodity off the shelf > hardware and software solutions continue to make the world go > round............... > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: beowulf-boun...@beowulf.org [mailto:beowulf-boun...@beowulf.org] > On Behalf Of Douglas Eadline > Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2013 7:38 AM > To: Lux, Jim (337C) > Cc: beowulf@beowulf.org > Subject: Re: [Beowulf] Roadrunner shutdown > > > --snip-- >> I suspect it's a combination of factors.. power consumption is one, >> age is another. At a certain point, you start having maintenance >> issues (Prentice's #5 (and maybe the half dozen people who really >> understand how box A works are now working on box B, Prentice's #3, >> below), and it's time to start over. > In a similar vain, I would guess that another straw on the back of Road > Runner is the fact that it is a unique design with no next generation or > upgrade path. > > I also know that I/O rates are an important design requirement for these > machines that, of course, is not addressed by HPL rank (but makes for good > news stories). > > -- > Doug > > -- > Mailscanner: Clean > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin > Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) > visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin > Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) > visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
