Re: [Beowulf] AMD Roadrunner open compute motherboard

2013-01-16 Thread Kilian Cavalotti
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 12:39 AM, Ellis H. Wilson III wrote: > I could be wrong, but I read Kilian's email as having a heavy dose of > sarcasm applied... You read correctly. :) Cheers, -- Kilian ___ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored b

Re: [Beowulf] AMD Roadrunner open compute motherboard

2013-01-16 Thread Lux, Jim (337C)
What I found more interesting was the origins of this... a software service vendor (Facebook) sponsoring the development of a hardware platform for their use. Interesting. I don't know how useful the "open" aspect is. The startup costs to make a batch of mobos are fairly high, so it's not a "

[Beowulf] Assistant/Associate Professor Position at University of Massachusetts, Boston

2013-01-16 Thread Jun Suzuki
Assistant/Associate Professor Position on Scientific/High-Performance Computing University of Massachusetts, Boston The Computer Science Department at the University of Massachusetts Boston invites applications for Fall 2013 for a tenure track Assistant or Associate Professor in Scientific/High-P

Re: [Beowulf] AMD Roadrunner open compute motherboard

2013-01-16 Thread Ellis H. Wilson III
On 01/16/2013 05:55 PM, Douglas J. Trainor wrote: > > On Jan 16, 2013, at 3:49 PM, Kilian > Cavalotti wrote: > >> On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 7:20 PM, Hearns, John >> wrote: >>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/01/16/amd_roadrunner_open_compute_motherboard/ >>> Class, discuss. >> >> Targeted versi

Re: [Beowulf] AMD Roadrunner open compute motherboard

2013-01-16 Thread Douglas J. Trainor
On Jan 16, 2013, at 3:49 PM, Kilian Cavalotti wrote: > On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 7:20 PM, Hearns, John wrote: >> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/01/16/amd_roadrunner_open_compute_motherboard/ >> Class, discuss. > > Targeted version for HPC: 4 DIMM per CPU... Yeah sure. It's well known > HPC w

Re: [Beowulf] AMD Roadrunner open compute motherboard

2013-01-16 Thread Kilian Cavalotti
On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 7:20 PM, Hearns, John wrote: > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/01/16/amd_roadrunner_open_compute_motherboard/ > Class, discuss. Targeted version for HPC: 4 DIMM per CPU... Yeah sure. It's well known HPC workloads don't need memory. I'll pass, thanks. Cheers, -- Kilian

Re: [Beowulf] AMD Roadrunner open compute motherboard

2013-01-16 Thread Bill Broadley
On 01/16/2013 10:20 AM, Hearns, John wrote: > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/01/16/amd_roadrunner_open_compute_motherboard/ The pictured 1U has what looks like 12 15k RPM fans (not including the power supplies). Or 6 double fans if you prefer. In my experience those fans burn an impressive am

Re: [Beowulf] AMD Roadrunner open compute motherboard

2013-01-16 Thread Bill Broadley
On 01/16/2013 11:27 AM, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: > The thing looks shitty. Just 2 sockets. At 2 sockets AMD is junk. Heh, at least at running chess programs that's of interest to approximately 0.00% of the market. > At > 4 sockets it would be interesting though - yet that's not shown. Dunno, s

Re: [Beowulf] AMD Roadrunner open compute motherboard

2013-01-16 Thread Vincent Diepeveen
The thing looks shitty. Just 2 sockets. At 2 sockets AMD is junk. At 4 sockets it would be interesting though - yet that's not shown. Also no prices quoted. A big problem with the socket-F motherboards from AMD, some years ago, was that where 2nd hand the cpu price of AMD was dirt cheap, not a

[Beowulf] AMD Roadrunner open compute motherboard

2013-01-16 Thread Hearns, John
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