Hello Everybody. Just a quick question for all of you.
What was the big computer do you ever used?
For me is IBM Blue Gene/P :
- 40.960 PowerPC 450 core
- 20 TByte of memory
- 139 Tflops
see it a the 16 position in the
http://top500.org/list/2008/11/100 TOP500 List - November 2008
Over telnet it was a cray Y-MP but in the flesh I have only used an Onyx.
Yes !
In the past I also use : Connection Machine, CRAY Y-MP and Many SGI... in Fortan :lol:
And some very interesting prototype with many Transputer... in Occam :wink:
If one could call SETI at home a super computer system than it would be the biggest one I ever used.
J
emond, you used a Connection Machine? Which particual model? UI have always loved those systems due to the fact that there are so many blinkenlites on them.
um, the best one I've used is our Mac Pro at work. lol...
octo core 3ghz xeon, 16gb ram.
If you mean physically biggest, it was probably the PDP-10 they had at the company I worked for during my sandwich year. They switched it on once a year to see if they could still claim to be able to support a customer that was running one in production (this was 1995). They would run it up for 2 days and everyone who was too young to have used one in anger played with it. The older folks didn't enjoy the novelty of a line printer terminal as much :)
The biggest machine I am using is our research cluster... which is a 40 node (8 cores per node) for 320 cores.
But... my code currently only used 8 cores, and will grow to 32 if we get a bigger license.
On that note... does anyone here use Octave?
or star-P ?
:)
The largest physical machine I myself have gotten to use is my DEC MicroVAX II. Considering it weighs roughly 100 pounds, not counting the VT-220 terminals, it's fairly good sized. Though I do have a dual 8" floppy setup that's nearly as big.
I did have the pleasure of getting an up close and personal look at a Cray YM-P, but have only gotten to telnet into one a couple of times.
Quote from: "pentium"emond, you used a Connection Machine? Which particual model? UI have always loved those systems due to the fact that there are so many blinkenlites on them.
Yes I use one in past ~1992-1993 in University. The model, I think is a CM-2 or CM-5... I dont not... is old now for me ;)
a sun e1000... It was tricked out 64cpu with 64gb of ram...
I snuck a quake 1 server onto it... It was cool in that nobody noticed.
it's a shame it hangs off some craptastic 3com 3300 switch so invoking 32 sessions at once was out of the question..
I've used MUSIC on an IBM S/390, and I've messed around with a MicroVAX II, but other than that I've been a sheltered child :wink:
My dad used to be in the computer science department at Southeast Missouri State University and he shared his office with a defunct PDP-11.