Jay and the guys at TACC have finally gotten Ranger online.
I guess IBM will continue with their stunt supercomputing and push Blue Gene to stay as the fastest machine on the planet, wrt Top-500, but this box will probably deliver more usable and useful TFlops than any other machine on the planet, which means it will be used to do more meaningful science. And that is the point of all this.
Ranger delivers 1/2 Petaflop of AMD Barcelona power in what is basically a huge cluster. And they did it at about 1/4 of the price of Blue Gene.
The Big Iron vs. Cluster argument is now, to all intents and purposes, over. Killer Micros rule the Earth.
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