Largest single system to SCALE SETI?

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Bry B Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 53 Credit: 832,165 RAC: 0	Message 1085537 - Posted: 10 Mar 2011, 2:30:55 UTC This is a 64 socket 256 way Hewlett Packard IA-64 Superdome 2 running Windows. thanks to all the pro's on the Forum who helped me setup the Boinc manager. ID: 1085537 ·

peak Send message Joined: 6 Mar 11 Posts: 31 Credit: 39,440 RAC: 0	Message 1085539 - Posted: 10 Mar 2011, 2:33:34 UTC ROFL Whats the power-consumption? and what about RAC? ID: 1085539 ·

HAL9000 Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 11 Sep 99 Posts: 6534 Credit: 196,805,888 RAC: 57	Message 1085541 - Posted: 10 Mar 2011, 2:35:35 UTC - in response to Message 1085539. ROFL Whats the power-consumption? and what about RAC? I'm guessing it is close to 1.21 jigawatts. SETI@home classic workunits: 93,865 CPU time: 863,447 hours Join the [url=http://tinyurl.com/8y46zvu]BP6/VP6 User Group[ ID: 1085541 ·

Bry B Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 53 Credit: 832,165 RAC: 0	Message 1085543 - Posted: 10 Mar 2011, 2:42:35 UTC - in response to Message 1085539. ROFL Whats the power-consumption? and what about RAC? Forgive my ignorance. I have been a member since 1999 but have not gotten to deep with it. Please explain RAC? Yes it uses 2 60AMP three phase. The connector looks like its getting jet fuel. ID: 1085543 ·

HAL9000 Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 11 Sep 99 Posts: 6534 Credit: 196,805,888 RAC: 57	Message 1085552 - Posted: 10 Mar 2011, 3:00:57 UTC - in response to Message 1085548. ROFL Whats the power-consumption? and what about RAC? Forgive my ignorance. I have been a member since 1999 but have not gotten to deep with it. Please explain RAC? Yes it uses 2 60AMP three phase. The connector looks like its getting jet fuel. Ok I found out about RAC. The record seems to be 98,293.51. Is this for a 24 hour period? RAC is sort of a rolling average. Normally it takes about 2 weeks for RAC to start stabling. If ther are no major problems in the server side of things. SETI@home classic workunits: 93,865 CPU time: 863,447 hours Join the [url=http://tinyurl.com/8y46zvu]BP6/VP6 User Group[ ID: 1085552 ·

peak Send message Joined: 6 Mar 11 Posts: 31 Credit: 39,440 RAC: 0	Message 1085557 - Posted: 10 Mar 2011, 3:08:57 UTC It uses WHAT? 2 60AMP? 60 A-M-P-E-R-E? O_o lol Thats more than 10 kW = 50 Euro per day gg Where did you get this kind of power-connection? If I would establish something like this here, the whole district would be black in a minute :D RAC: http://www.boinc-wiki.info/RAC ID: 1085557 ·

-BeNt- Send message Joined: 17 Oct 99 Posts: 1234 Credit: 10,116,112 RAC: 0	Message 1085575 - Posted: 10 Mar 2011, 4:11:26 UTC Well running Seti@Home blows the purpose of that server out of the water, "high availability" lol. Traveling through space at ~67,000mph! ID: 1085575 ·

j tramer Send message Joined: 6 Oct 03 Posts: 242 Credit: 5,412,368 RAC: 0	Message 1085581 - Posted: 10 Mar 2011, 4:24:09 UTC Starting price of these servers are 262 000 dollars.....hmmmm :) ID: 1085581 ·

HAL9000 Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 11 Sep 99 Posts: 6534 Credit: 196,805,888 RAC: 57	Message 1085583 - Posted: 10 Mar 2011, 4:29:13 UTC - in response to Message 1085575. Well running Seti@Home blows the purpose of that server out of the water, "high availability" lol. Currently they are highly available to run S@H it would seem. SETI@home classic workunits: 93,865 CPU time: 863,447 hours Join the [url=http://tinyurl.com/8y46zvu]BP6/VP6 User Group[ ID: 1085583 ·

peak Send message Joined: 6 Mar 11 Posts: 31 Credit: 39,440 RAC: 0	Message 1085596 - Posted: 10 Mar 2011, 5:02:17 UTC ok, 262 000 Dollar... I thought he had bought that thing by himself and wants to run seti on it seriously. But probably it runs only for a few moments. sad! I want it to run forever and change some more electricity into heat! ID: 1085596 ·

Bry B Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 53 Credit: 832,165 RAC: 0	Message 1085598 - Posted: 10 Mar 2011, 5:04:06 UTC - in response to Message 1085557. It uses WHAT? 2 60AMP? 60 A-M-P-E-R-E? O_o lol Thats more than 10 kW = 50 Euro per day gg Where did you get this kind of power-connection? If I would establish something like this here, the whole district would be black in a minute :D RAC: http://www.boinc-wiki.info/RAC thanks for the RAC info. HAHAH SETI works good for validating SP1 :) This box looks like two Refrigerators. Cant dare to let it sit idle.... Seemed like a fun idea. ID: 1085598 ·

Bry B Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 53 Credit: 832,165 RAC: 0	Message 1085599 - Posted: 10 Mar 2011, 5:10:00 UTC - in response to Message 1085596. ok, 262 000 Dollar... I thought he had bought that thing by himself and wants to run seti on it seriously. But probably it runs only for a few moments. sad! I want it to run forever and change some more electricity into heat! It gonna run for a bit :) This is the first 256 way windows box and I do mean the first as in this particular system. Cost was in the Millions of dollars. Its a test system and its testing.... ID: 1085599 ·

Bry B Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 53 Credit: 832,165 RAC: 0	Message 1085600 - Posted: 10 Mar 2011, 5:11:27 UTC - in response to Message 1085583. Well running Seti@Home blows the purpose of that server out of the water, "high availability" lol. Currently they are highly available to run S@H it would seem. IA-64 is dead beyond service packs so while validating SP1 I figured we try to get one last horah out of her.... :) ID: 1085600 ·

NewtonianRefractor Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 19 Sep 04 Posts: 495 Credit: 225,412 RAC: 0	Message 1085615 - Posted: 10 Mar 2011, 7:20:11 UTC can you post a link to the Host's page? ID: 1085615 ·

Pappa Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 9 Jan 00 Posts: 2562 Credit: 12,301,681 RAC: 0	Message 1085619 - Posted: 10 Mar 2011, 7:30:08 UTC - in response to Message 1085600. Well running Seti@Home blows the purpose of that server out of the water, "high availability" lol. Currently they are highly available to run S@H it would seem. IA-64 is dead beyond service packs so while validating SP1 I figured we try to get one last horah out of her.... :) I look at this and wonder... IF arragnements could be made to get the correct ferdora core installed, the Seti Staff flies in with a duplicate of the Master Science Database (With NITPCKR). IN about a Month, analysis of ALL the returned results could be almost complete... Along with some analysis of the best reobservation candidates. Heck, it might even find ET.... That would be one Hell of a Horah!!!! Pappa Please consider a Donation to the Seti Project. ID: 1085619 ·

Todd Hebert Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 16 Jun 00 Posts: 648 Credit: 228,292,957 RAC: 0	Message 1085623 - Posted: 10 Mar 2011, 7:40:45 UTC Looks like my 64 thread machine is done now with its 4 sockets and Octocore processors. Might be able to breath new life into it with the new deca-core processors that are coming shortly. 80 threads is by no means 256 but its something you don't need to win the lottery to have. Todd ID: 1085623 ·

peak Send message Joined: 6 Mar 11 Posts: 31 Credit: 39,440 RAC: 0	Message 1085642 - Posted: 10 Mar 2011, 12:26:42 UTC I look at this and wonder... IF arragnements could be made to get the correct ferdora core installed, the Seti Staff flies in with a duplicate of the Master Science Database (With NITPCKR). IN about a Month, analysis of ALL the returned results could be almost complete... Along with some analysis of the best reobservation candidates. Heck, it might even find ET.... That would be one Hell of a Horah!!!! Pappa Why should be one single computer so much better? Its 'just' 64 Intel-Itanium-Processors with 256 cores. The Top25-Computers have 258 Cores (just the CPUs). ID: 1085642 ·

ML1 Volunteer moderator Volunteer tester Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 20291 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20	Message 1085674 - Posted: 10 Mar 2011, 14:02:34 UTC - in response to Message 1085642. Last modified: 10 Mar 2011, 14:03:44 UTC I look at this and wonder... IF arragnements could be made to get the correct ferdora core installed, the Seti Staff flies in with a duplicate of the Master Science Database (With NITPCKR). IN about a Month, analysis of ALL the returned results could be almost complete... Along with some analysis of the best reobservation candidates. Heck, it might even find ET.... That would be one Hell of a Horah!!!! Pappa Why should be one single computer so much better? Its 'just' 64 Intel-Itanium-Processors with 256 cores. The Top25-Computers have 258 Cores (just the CPUs). It's not necessarily just the 'compute' capability. Hopefully, for that price, that system also comes with some phenomenally high bandwidth IO and big disks so that you can quickly run through PetaBytes of data relatively quickly... s@h is spread across multiple machines... At the moment, everything that s@h does is hung off one 1Gbit/s LAN switch and all database interactions are limited to the speed of the disk IO for the system database log... Note that you buy multi-processor systems/clusters for their high speed IO. Otherwise, you may as well just by a roomful of cheap PCs! Keep searchin', Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) ID: 1085674 ·

Aker Send message Joined: 2 Nov 01 Posts: 24 Credit: 2,030,727 RAC: 0	Message 1085874 - Posted: 10 Mar 2011, 23:54:44 UTC Kinda interesting/sad to see such a beast running windows. ID: 1085874 ·

eaglescouter Send message Joined: 28 Dec 02 Posts: 162 Credit: 42,012,553 RAC: 0	Message 1085882 - Posted: 11 Mar 2011, 0:21:23 UTC Where is the photo of the actual machine? It's not too many computers, it's a lack of circuit breakers for this room. But we can fix it :) ID: 1085882 ·

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