Can PowerPC 970 SOC Infiniband Cluster Break The Record?

[asian1]

List of top 4 computers in the World:

1. IBM BlueGene/L DD2 Prototype cluster (dual 0.7 GHz
PowerPC 440 w/custom)
32768 proc., 70.72 Linpack TFLOPS, 91.75 Peak TFLOPS
2. NASA Project Columbia (20x508proc SGI Altix 3000 1.5GHz
Itanium2 w/Infiniband)
10160 proc., 51.87 Linpack TFLOPS, 60.96 Peak TFLOPS
3. NASA Project Columbia (16x504proc SGI Altix 3000 1.5GHz
Itanium2 w/Infiniband)
8064 proc., 42.71 Linpack TFLOPS, 48.38 Peak TPLOPS
4. IBM BlueGene/L DD2 Prototype cluster (2way 0.7 GHz
PowerPC 440 w/custom interconnect)
16384 proc., 36.01 Linpack TFLOPS , 45.88 Peak TFLOPS

The PowerPC 440 System-on-chip is created by AMCC, who buy PowerPC 4XX IP from IBM.

What if someone create Infiniband cluster based on 10 thousands processing element boards with 970 MP / Antares System-on-chip (2.5 GHz / dual core)?

Will this system break world record?

The same processing element board can be used  as modular motherboard for desktop PowerPC, using PCI Express super I/O board (ie Sonnet Trio), and ATI VGA PCI Express card.

Is this idea possible?

[minator]

List of top 4 computers in the World:

The top one doubled in speed last week.

The PowerPC 440 System-on-chip is created by AMCC, who buy PowerPC 4XX IP from IBM.

The 440 in those systems is a highly custom design by IBM.  The 440 cores take up very little room on the die, it's all cache and/or interconnets.  The dual FPUs (which do all the computing) aren't even inside the 440s.

What if someone create Infiniband cluster based on 10 thousands processing element boards with 970 MP / Antares System-on-chip (2.5 GHz / dual core)?

Even 10,000 of them would probably come in second to the new record from last week.

Such a system would also have positively frightening power consumption - at least a couple of million watts - IBM used the custom 440s because they needed to get the power consumption right down for the final system - whihc is projected to deliver 360 Tera FLOPs.

PowerPC clusters don't use the 2.5GHz parts for a good reason...


Anyway, I'd use Myrinet not Infiniband ;-)