Look at these computer specs.

http://www.nas.nasa.gov/hecc/resources/columbia.html

We, the KHV community, are going to rent this computer for 24 hours. What are we going to do with it? We're going to create the biggest Minecraft TNT explosion of all time.

Who's in?

 

Okay, I fancy myself mildly computer savvy, I know my way around one, or at the very least inside one. But what does it mean.

 

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System Architecture

Manufacturer: SGI
40 compute node cabinets - 40 big boxes with computer parts in them
30 Tflop/s theoretical peak (original 10,240 system: 63 Tflop/s) - Performance when performing advanced tasks such as sending **** into space
Total Memory: 9 TB - 9TB of RAM?
Nodes
1 SGI® Altix® 4700 (512 cores)
Intel® Itanium® processors (Montecito)
1.6 GHz
9MB

1 SGI Altix 4700 (2,048 cores)
Intel Itanium processors (Montecito)
1.6 GHz
9 MB

2 SGI Altix 4700 (1,024 cores)
Intel Itanium processors (Montvale)
1.6 GHz
9 MB

4 total compute nodes (4,608 total cores)
Memory Type: Double data rate synchronous dynamic random access memory (DDR SDRAM)
2 GB per core 2GB per core X (1024+2048+512) = 7168GB ~ 7TB total core processing power?

Subsystems

1 front-end node

Interconnects

SGI® NUMAlink® interconnected single-system image compute nodes (enable large SSI)
Internode
InfiniBand®: 4x (Single Data Rate, Double Data Rate)
10 Gb Ethernet LAN/WAN interconnect
1 Gb Ethernet LAN/WAN interconnect

Storage

Online: DataDirect Networks® and LSI® RAID, 800 TB (raw) - 800TB of storage when RAIDed together
1 SGI CXFS domain - One (most probably remote server) domain that is for network storage use
Local SGI XFS - Local domain for network storage use
Archival: Attached to high-end computing SGI CXFS storage area network filesystem - Archived using powerful computer for easy retrieval

Operating Environment

Operating system: SUSE® Linux® Enterprise
Job scheduler: PBS®
Compilers - C, Intel Fortran, SGI MPT



That's what I take it to mean, anyway.

 

Someone please explain to me the unit of measurement that is "TB".

 

Terabit. 1000 Gigabit's

 

If you have the money to buy it for me, go for it.

 

Doubt you know what those cool words mean.

 

Lets overclock it.

 

Still won't run Crysis on max settings.

 

Dude. We're going to try this too. KHV will legendary for lagging the Nasa supercomputer WITH A VIDEOGAME.

@Nate: Yes. That's 9 freaking terabytes of RAM.

 

If we actually get something like that, let me know. I'll get a party ready for us

 

I thought computer specs were high-tech glasses.
But I am all for this.

 

We must attain this intellectual behemoth!
Those TNTs don't explode on their own, you know?

 

Precisely. We're going to do a 1,000 by 1,000 grid of TNT, and set it to go all the way down to Bedrock. It will be amazing.

 

Dreams can come true :D

 

... RAM stops having an impact on performance after 256GB.

 

Really? I thought it would continue improving performance as long as it was spread out in a cluster style computing system rather than in a computer that is just one computer. You know what I mean by cluster, right? It's like how the Air Force used around 300 PS3s to make its own supercomputer.

 

Perhaps I am thinking of a single machine, because I was curious as to the maximum amount of RAM that was possible and I read that it stops making a difference at a few hundred.

Also, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racetrack_memory