Chapter 6
Research and summarize your findings on a computer model with exceptoinal parallel processing ability. Identify the manufacturer, the maximum nuber os processors the computer uses, ow fast the machine can perform calculations, and typical applications for it.
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Upon my findings in my research, I've found that Linux has adapted the parallel processing ability. The manufacturer is SMP Pentium and the maximum number of processors they use is 32. It can preform calculations 130,000 times fast. Attached processors are a tyical application for it.
http://cobweb.ecn.purdue.edu/~pplinux/pphowto.html
Im my research I fould Dell's Alienware M11x that can be built for dual-core processing. Dual-Processors in the same system, as we learned in class has the potiential to be configured using multiprocessing configurations(Master/slave, Loosely/coupled etc.) This CPU uses Window 64-bit OS. Its built for gaming and has to be built for mult-processing of several jobs at the same time.
RDAckerson
http://www.dell.com/us/p/alienware-m11x/pd?refid=alienware-m11x&~ck=mn
Tianhe-1A is the nu,ber one supercomputer in the world from China. It uses Linux for its operating sysytem and can perform. It performs 2.5 times 10 to the 15th power mathematical operations per second. The software system consists of operating system, compiling system, resource management subsystem and the development kit for parallel programming.http://www.nscc-tj.gov.cn/en/show.asp?id=191
Gregory Wagner
In researching the specifications for the processor in my laptop (Dell Inspiron 1526) I found that it has a dual-core processor. The ADM Athlon 64 x 2 TK-75 has two cores and two processors,it performs 4.5 calculations per second. This processor is mainly for home use. It is really good because you can run anti-virus software while performing other tasks without the system slowing down. Some of the information I was able to find in the system itself.
http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/K8/AMD-Athlon%2064%20X2%20TK-57%20-%20AMDTK57HAX4DM.html
Susan Cain
The 10-petaflop IBM Blue Gene/Q supercomputer, declared “Mira”, will be operational in 2012 as well as done accessible to scientists from attention, academia and government research comforts around the universe.
“Computation as well as supercomputing are vicious to solving some of the biggest systematic hurdles, like more advanced purify energy and understanding a Earth’s climate,” pronounced Rick Stevens, join forces with laboratory director for computing, surroundings and life sciences during Argonne National Laboratory. “Argonne’s brand new IBM supercomputer will assistance residence a critical direct for formidable modeling as well as make-believe capabilities, which have been essential to mending the mercantile wealth as well as global competitiveness.”
Argonne’s stream supercomputer, Intrepid, is an IBM Blue Gene/P machine able of producing over 500 trillion calculations a second. Mira will be 20 times faster, running programs during 10 quadrillion calculations a second. If each male, lady and child in a United States performed one calculation any second, it would take them almost a year to do as many calculations as Mira will do in one second.
http://www.laptopdrv.net/2011/02/09/ibms-mira-supercomputer-does-10-petaflops-with-palliate-inches-us-closer-to-exascale-class-computing/
Rafael Riera
The NVIDIA Tesla is a personal super computer capable of producing over 500 gigaflops at double precision and more than 1 teraflop at single precision. The Tesla C2050/C2070 utilizes 448 CUDA cores to provide up to 515 gigaflops per GPU at double precision yielding more than 1 teraflop overall. At single precision this machine delivers over 1 teraflop per GPU. Typical applications include high-level scientific and engineering calculations requiring extreme speed and precision.
http://www.nvidia.com/docs/IO/43395/NV_DS_Tesla_C2050_C2070_jul10_lores.pdf
-Josh Tryon
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The Cray XT5 is an updated version of the Cray XT4 supercomputer, launched on November 6, 2007. The Cray delivered a 1.3 petaflops XT5 system to National Center for Computational Sciences at Oak Ridge National Laboratories. This system, with over 150,000 processing cores, was dubbed "Jaguar" and was the second fastest system in the world for the LINPACK benchmark, the fastest system available for open science and the first system to exceed a petaflops sustained performance on a 64-bit scientific application.
http://www.nccs.gov/jaguar/
Today's scientific and industrial problems require enormous computing power. Since circuit switching speeds are reaching fundamental limits, avenues to speed up computations other than that using faster components are being explored. One such avenue is the use of parallelism. PASM is a dynamically reconfigurable SIMD/MIMD parallel processing system with up to 1,024 processing elements (PEs).
http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA208699
Rob Jones
"The simultaneous use of more than one CPU to execute a program. Ideally, parallel processing makes a program run faster because there are more engines (CPUs) running it. In practice, it is often difficult to divide a program in such a way that separate CPUs can execute different portions without interfering with each other.
Most computers have just one CPU, but some models have several. There are even computers with thousands of CPUs. With single-CPU computers, it is possible to perform parallel processing by connecting the computers in a network. However, this type of parallel processing requires very sophisticated software called distributed processing software." Webopedia
Based on that that definition, the Folding@home project at Stanford University would qualify as parallel computing. The project is classified under distributed computing and is used for protein folding research. It use the PlayStation 3 console and connects via PSN to connect to Stanford. It is also available for download on PC. The project has over one million ps3 user connected and was recognized in 2007 as the most powerful distributed computing network in the world.
(edit) my sources
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/P/parallel_processing.html
http://www.scei.co.jp/folding/en/index.html
http://folding.stanford.edu/English/Main
HP
ProLiant DL 580 G7
4 x Intel Xeon (10-core, 2.0GHz)
used for Corporate Data Centers
use applications like database or servers
www.hp.com
www.newegg.com
The ASUS ET2400IGTS-B008E is an All-in-One PC designed for business or home multimedia use. It has a 64 bit Quad-Core Processor running at 2.50GHz.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883220062
Ben Ayers
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