Thanks Joe, BTW, after getting our software stack to run on Haswell, I managed to get 385 GFLOPS (HPL, double precision, CPU only) on the entry level Limulus. That is approximately $15.6/GFLOP More information: http://limulus.basement-supercomputing.com/wiki/LimulusBenchmarks
I'll be publishing more HPC benchmarks as I run them. And, I'll have more Hadoop benchmarks as well. -- Doug > [Disclosure: we do have a business relationship with Basement > Supercomputing. ] > > I have to say, that one of the most popular aspects of the show for us, > was the Limulus system that Doug Eadline had set up in our booth. This > is a terrific system. > > I really like the concept of a personal supercomputer, one where, as > Doug puts it, you own the reset switch. We tried, and did not succeed, > in building interest in "muscular desktops" with huge amounts of > processors, IO, and graphics. It cost way to much to build these. > > Doug comes along and in very beowulf-ish fashion, says "hey, lets build > a very low electrical power many core distributed system from lower cost > parts". It took a few years from project inception, but the concept is > sound. Far more sound than the "muscular desktop" strategy. > > He ran hadoop on it, and was showing off running the overall system. I > think the configs for hadoop might be slightly different than whats on > the product page: > http://www.basement-supercomputing.com/index.php/products/hikashop-menu-for-products-listing > , but its similar enough that you can get the concept. > > I was simply blown away by this. The response came anywhere from "thats > exactly what we need" to "this is very cool" with everything in between. > They are awesome boxes, and it looks like it could fill a very nice > niche for a number of folks. > > If you've not checked out the Limulus project in the past > (http://limulus.basement-supercomputing.com/ and twtr @LimulusProject) , > definitely have a look at it. Returning to our core value proposition, > of power at lower cost, with creative designs, is deeply gratifying to > me. Have a gander at the benchmark page: > http://limulus.basement-supercomputing.com/wiki/LimulusBenchmarks > > It needs to be emphasized that this is not a toy system. You can do > real work on it, and its trivial to setup and get going. > > Bravo to Doug! > > > -- > Joseph Landman, Ph.D > Founder and CEO > Scalable Informatics, Inc. > email: [email protected] > web : http://scalableinformatics.com > twtr : @scalableinfo > phone: +1 734 786 8423 x121 > cell : +1 734 612 4615 > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] sponsored by Penguin Computing > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > > -- > Mailscanner: Clean > -- Doug -- Mailscanner: Clean _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
