I saw the ultimate seti farm today 800 Alphas!!

[el]

Went to Celera who is partnered with Compaq and they have 800 64bit Alphas running at 833. I only counted about 30 towers so I guess with 32 in a box that would be about 800chips! How fast could they do a WU with this monster! I would love to see the servers but the security was totally insane. well I was totally blown away wish I had a picture.

[JigPu]

Well, according to what spy says....

Topt = 278 (TeraFLOPs * CpF / MHz)

Topt = 278 (3.5 * 3.2 / 833)

Topt = 3.737 Hours / WU

3.737 / 800 = 0.00467125 Hours / WU effective time
WHICH IS A WU EVERY 16.8 SECONDS AVERAGE!!!

Ohhhhhhh...... *drools heavaly* GIMME 800 ALPHAS!!!!!!!! MUST CRUNCH!!!!!!

JigPu

[el]

Well they are running together couldn't they tackle the task faster? I am not sure but I would think they could handle much larger chunks so times would be much much faster than that. I could be totally wrong but that was my understanding.

[Jon]

Originally posted by el
Well they are running together couldn't they tackle the task faster? I am not sure but I would think they could handle much larger chunks so times would be much much faster than that. I could be totally wrong but that was my understanding.

Only if SETI were multi-threaded...oh how I wish...

[Cy]

I'll have to see if I can find the pics I took when I visited the super computer lab at the University of Kentucky. It is the one called KLAT2 and had 64 Athlons tied together. Would be a nice little farm if even part time! ;)

Cy

[Sir-Epix]

I miss my lab!!! I had 40 PIII 933's. Their peak power is 120 Units a day! Not that bad.

[rugby]

I used to run the screensaver on about 500 iMacs and G3 towers. I got to about 2,000 wu's pretty quickly and then had to uninstall the screensaver because teachers were getting upset about it.:beer: