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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: KennyR on October 12, 2003, 09:08:40 PM

Title: Fancy *this* computer for running MOS or OS4 on? ;)
Post by: KennyR on October 12, 2003, 09:08:40 PM

A G5 supercomputer! (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3180872.stm)

Virginia Tech built there own supercomputer for only $5 million out of 1,100 brand new Apple G5s.

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It is capable of 17.6 trillion floating point operations per second, with a combined storage capacity of 176 terabytes. Each individual G5 is a dual processor, 2GHZ machine with 4GB of memory.

Ok, neither OS would be liable to make much use of them, but it caught your attention, right? :)

Title: Re: Fancy *this* computer for running MOS or OS4 on? ;)
Post by: Amiga1200PPC on October 12, 2003, 09:13:50 PM

Very hot, yes.

Title: Re: Fancy *this* computer for running MOS or OS4 on? ;)
Post by: J on October 12, 2003, 09:26:31 PM

doesn't the fact that "the program cannot be stopped" scare you a little?  :-o

Dear Hyperion / Genesi

Will your OS be available on Big mac in time for Christmas 03?  :-D

Title: Re: Fancy *this* computer for running MOS or OS4 on? ;)
Post by: Argo on October 12, 2003, 10:05:56 PM

I'd like mine "Super Sized". :-D

Title: Re: Fancy *this* computer for running MOS or OS4 on? ;)
Post by: asian1 on October 12, 2003, 11:24:45 PM

>17.5 Trillion FP / second

Hello
Where do they get this number?
AFAIK their target is only 500 Million FP/second.
On the rank of top 500 machines, the system
will be in 190th.
Is there any REAL Benchmark result?
The fastest computer in the world is 35 TFP/s.
I wonder how they can outrun other super computers
with larger number of Alphas, Xeons and Opterons.

Title: Re: Fancy *this* computer for running MOS or OS4 on? ;)
Post by: mikeymike on October 12, 2003, 11:48:01 PM

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>17.5 Trillion FP / second

Which game? :-)

Title: Re: Fancy *this* computer for running MOS or OS4 on? ;)
Post by: that_punk_guy on October 12, 2003, 11:51:58 PM

If they can afford all those G5s... surely they can spare one for me?  :-D

Title: Re: Fancy *this* computer for running MOS or OS4 on? ;)
Post by: CodeSmith on October 13, 2003, 04:35:52 AM

Sure, sign up for one of their PhDs and I'm sure they'll be very happy to let you use them ;-)

Title: Re: Fancy *this* computer for running MOS or OS4 on? ;)
Post by: vortexau on October 13, 2003, 07:21:16 AM

Don't fell B.B., or he'll be contacting them to suggest a little (or, mayby BIG) game of PegPong -- then, he'll have his favourite code-writers O/T to do a MOS-emulation layer for Virginia Tech!!

Title: Re: Fancy *this* computer for running MOS or OS4 on? ;)
Post by: whabang on October 13, 2003, 07:34:01 AM

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AFAIK their target is only 500 Million FP/second.

Yeah, but they turned vSync off... :-D
Mike beat me to it...

Seriously, though, it doesn't matter.  It's FAST! :-o

Title: Re: Fancy *this* computer for running MOS or OS4 on? ;)
Post by: Amiga1200PPC on October 13, 2003, 08:16:02 AM

I want to play Quake3 with 500000 fps on that machine.
Ha ha couldn't resist.