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[Zenob]

The computational speed of Saguaro 2 is especially critical to the work of TGen. "In 2009, more genome sequence data will be generated than all the words spoken by humans in all of history. Teasing meaningful understanding from this avalanche of data is also the role of HPC (high performance computing)," Stanzione said.

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[Shoe]

That's about 1/20 the capacity of Blue Gene/P.

Edited by Shoe, 31 October 2008 - 03:45 PM.

[Zenob]

That's about 1/20 the capacity of Blue Gene/P.

I think it's about 1/8th actually. The top Blue Gene is 478 terraflops I think. The top supercomputer broke a petaflop. The important thing is that it's one more super computer dedicated to bio research on the genome. Every one that comes online doing research into the genome puts us one step closer to our goal.

This supercomputer would be about rank 38-40 on the Top 500 list.
Top 500 Supercomputers

[Shoe]

I think it's about 1/8th actually. The top Blue Gene is 478 terraflops I think.

Yeah, you're right. I only read the two first sentences of the Wikipedia entry on Blue Gene/P. I got the impression that they would run at 1 petaflops, but it doesn't seem like any BGP supercomputer has reached that speed yet.

The top supercomputer broke a petaflop. The important thing is that it's one more super computer dedicated to bio research on the genome. Every one that comes online doing research into the genome puts us one step closer to our goal.

Yes, I agree. I was mainly reacting on (to?) the thread title.

[Mind]

As far as total computing power, folding@home does over 3 petaflops as a distributed system.

Our team and the F@H prize are helping out.

[Zenob]

As far as total computing power, folding@home does over 3 petaflops as a distributed system.

Our team and the F@H prize are helping out.

Speaking of F@H, does anyone know of a client that plays nice with Win XP pro 64bit? It crashes all the time on my system.

[lucid]

I ran it on my xp64 system for a couple weeks with no problems. I stopped when I realized that my G-card was starting to get some overheating damage and making lots of noise; no crashes though.

[Zenob]

I ran it on my xp64 system for a couple weeks with no problems. I stopped when I realized that my G-card was starting to get some overheating damage and making lots of noise; no crashes though.

Mine ran fine for a couple of weeks as well and now it just crashes everytime it starts. Re-installing it has had no affect. I'm unsure what is causing it. If I wasn't stuck using Verizon Wireless as my primary internet access I would just convert my main desktop over to Ubuntu. That would solve it. ;-)