Re: [Beowulf] DARPA issues 20 MUSD grant to nVidia to go from 1 GFLOPS/Watt to 75 GFLOPS/Watt

2012-12-17 Thread Vincent Diepeveen
On Dec 17, 2012, at 11:23 PM, Mark Hahn wrote: >> "todays 1 gflop/watt" ? > > press releases always put the new shiny thing in the best light. > they're probably thinking of a conventional compute node, > (say, 32 cores, 2.3 GHz, 4 flops/cycle, or 16c and 8 f/c - > either way totalling 294 Gflops

Re: [Beowulf] DARPA issues 20 MUSD grant to nVidia to go from 1 GFLOPS/Watt to 75 GFLOPS/Watt

2012-12-17 Thread Davide Rossetti
It could be referred to DP (Dual Precision) GFlops/W, not single. On 12/17/2012 02:50 PM, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: > "todays 1 gflop/watt" ? > > The K20X delivers 1.4 Tflop nearly. > If i google it's 235 watt TDP. > > 1.4 Tflop / 235 = 6 gflops/watt > > On Dec 17, 2012, at 2:21 PM, Eugen Leitl wr

Re: [Beowulf] A 10,000-node Grid Engine Cluster in Amazon EC2

2012-12-17 Thread Rayson Ho
On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Chi Chan wrote: > On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 12:10 PM, Rayson Ho wrote: >> 1) We ran a 10,000-node cluster on Amazon EC2 for Grid Engine >> scalability testing a few weeks ago: >> >> http://blogs.scalablelogic.com/2012/11/running-1-node-grid-engine-cluster.html >

Re: [Beowulf] DARPA issues 20 MUSD grant to nVidia to go from 1 GFLOPS/Watt to 75 GFLOPS/Watt

2012-12-17 Thread Mark Hahn
> "todays 1 gflop/watt" ? press releases always put the new shiny thing in the best light. they're probably thinking of a conventional compute node, (say, 32 cores, 2.3 GHz, 4 flops/cycle, or 16c and 8 f/c - either way totalling 294 Gflops for 300W or less.) > The K20X delivers 1.4 Tflop nearly.

Re: [Beowulf] DARPA issues 20 MUSD grant to nVidia to go from 1 GFLOPS/Watt to 75 GFLOPS/Watt

2012-12-17 Thread Lux, Jim (337C)
I wasn't thinking so much about code efficiency, more "wall plug power" efficiency. The board may consume 250W, but it will take non-zero power to support that board, and then the power supply efficiency needs to be taken into account. But I suspect the 1 GFLOP/W was more just an "old" "rounde

Re: [Beowulf] DARPA issues 20 MUSD grant to nVidia to go from 1 GFLOPS/Watt to 75 GFLOPS/Watt

2012-12-17 Thread Vincent Diepeveen
On Dec 17, 2012, at 8:15 PM, Lux, Jim (337C) wrote: > I wasn't thinking so much about code efficiency, more "wall plug > power" efficiency. The board may consume 250W, but it will take > non-zero power to support that board, and then the power supply > efficiency needs to be taken into acc

Re: [Beowulf] DARPA issues 20 MUSD grant to nVidia to go from 1 GFLOPS/Watt to 75 GFLOPS/Watt

2012-12-17 Thread Lux, Jim (337C)
That could be a notional 1 GFLOP/Watt in a fielded system. The original documents for PERFECT are probably a year or two old by now.. but what DARPA is looking for is a nearly 2 order of magnitude improvement... Whether they started at 1 or 1.4 or 6 really doesn't make much difference to what

Re: [Beowulf] DARPA issues 20 MUSD grant to nVidia to go from 1 GFLOPS/Watt to 75 GFLOPS/Watt

2012-12-17 Thread Vincent Diepeveen
On Dec 17, 2012, at 6:27 PM, Lux, Jim (337C) wrote: > That could be a notional 1 GFLOP/Watt in a fielded system. Even linpack is 70% - 80% efficient on this so should get out oh let's use a conservative 4.5 flops/watt effectively at codes. Note that (to my big surprise) it seems to be the case

Re: [Beowulf] Help: Raspberry Pi Cluster

2012-12-17 Thread Rayson Ho
On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 12:31 PM, Eric Lee wrote: > As I mentioned in the thread I would like to run some bioinformatics > applications on it. And using OGS as DRM. We ported Grid Engine (ie. OGS/GE) to ARM Linux in the GE 2011.11 release, but we haven't encountered huge demands yet. May be when

Re: [Beowulf] DARPA issues 20 MUSD grant to nVidia to go from 1 GFLOPS/Watt to 75 GFLOPS/Watt

2012-12-17 Thread Vincent Diepeveen
"todays 1 gflop/watt" ? The K20X delivers 1.4 Tflop nearly. If i google it's 235 watt TDP. 1.4 Tflop / 235 = 6 gflops/watt On Dec 17, 2012, at 2:21 PM, Eugen Leitl wrote: > > http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/darpa-awards-20m-nvidia- > stretch-achilles-heel-advanced-computing-power >

[Beowulf] DARPA issues 20 MUSD grant to nVidia to go from 1 GFLOPS/Watt to 75 GFLOPS/Watt

2012-12-17 Thread Eugen Leitl
http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/darpa-awards-20m-nvidia-stretch-achilles-heel-advanced-computing-power DARPA awards $20M to Nvidia to stretch "Achilles Heel" of advanced computing: Power Processor-maker Nvidia will get chance to boost power chip output from 1 GFLOPS/watt to 75 GFLOPS

Re: [Beowulf] Help: Raspberry Pi Cluster

2012-12-17 Thread Mark Hahn
>> the seq stuff I see is quite IO-intensive, sometimes memory-intensive. > How do I know if the application is IO-intensive or memory-intensive? Any > tools to measure that? code inspection is the best tool. you should know the number and size of files your workflow touches, and how it accesse

Re: [Beowulf] Help: Raspberry Pi Cluster

2012-12-17 Thread Christopher Samuel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 14/12/12 11:10, Lux, Jim (337C) wrote: > While the RPI might only be $35, you also have to buy a SD card > ($10-12) power supplies, cables, boxes or mounting hardware, not to > mention a network switch, etc. Or a group of people could each send a

Re: [Beowulf] Help: Raspberry Pi Cluster

2012-12-17 Thread Hearns, John
On 2012/12/17 12:30, Mark Hahn wrote: >> Thanks for the information. I would like to set up RPi cluster for some >> bioinformatics jobs like sequences alignment and sequences operations. > > you really need to look at where your code is spending its time. > the seq stuff I see is quite IO-intensiv

Re: [Beowulf] Help: Raspberry Pi Cluster

2012-12-17 Thread Eric Lee
On 2012/12/17 12:30, Mark Hahn wrote: >> Thanks for the information. I would like to set up RPi cluster for some >> bioinformatics jobs like sequences alignment and sequences operations. > > you really need to look at where your code is spending its time. > the seq stuff I see is quite IO-intensive