Hi Brad/others Sorry for waking this very stale thread, but I am researching the prospects of CellBE based supercomputing and I found this old email a promising lead.
My question is: what was the reason for choosing to mix an x86 based AMD cores and PPC 970 based Cell? Was the Cell based computer custom made or off-the-shelf? If the later, what was the brand? Is there any more details on the design that Brad or someone else can provide? Was the AMD CPU 32 bit or 64 bit (and was the OS 32 bit or 64 bit)? What (distro) was the OS? (I assume it was Linux). What tool chain was used for code development? I have Jack's excellent tutorial from netlib, but as always, more info is always better. Best regards Durga On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 10:12 PM, Brad Benton <bradford.ben...@gmail.com> wrote: > Greetings Open MPI users; we thought you'd be interested in the > following announcement... > > A new supercomputer, powered by Open MPI, has broken the petaflop > barrier to become the world's fastest supercomputer. The > "Roadrunner" system was jointly developed by Los Alamos National > Laboratories and IBM. Roadrunner's design uses a cluster of AMD > dual-core processors coupled with computational accelerators based > on the IBM Cell Broadband Engine. The cluster consists of 3,060 > nodes, each of which has 2 dual-core AMD processors and associated > Cell accelerators. The AMD nodes are connected with 4x DDR > InfiniBand links. > > Open MPI was used as the communications library for the 12,240 > processes comprising the Linpack run which broke the Petaflop > barrier at 1.026 Petaflop/s. The version of Open MPI used in the > run-for-record was a pre-release version of the upcoming 1.3 > release. Enhancements in this release include modifications for > efficient, scalable process launch. As such, Open MPI was run > unmodified from a snapshot of the pre-1.3 source base (meaning: > there are no Roadrunner-specific enhancements that are unportable to > other environments -- all Open MPI users benefit from the > scalability and performance improvements contributed by the > Roadrunner project). > > --Brad Benton > Open MPI/Roadrunner Team > > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > us...@open-mpi.org > http://www.open-mpi.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/users > -- Its a battle between humans and communists; Which side are you in?
