A Windows HPC Server installation is ranked as the 23rd fastest supercomputer in the world according to the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. The machine, which has over 9,472 nodes, hit 68.5 teraflops in trials.
Similarly, computer scientists at Umea University in northern Sweden, also working with the beta version of Windows HPC Server 2008 on their supercluster, achieved 46 teraflops and 85.5 percent efficiency on 5,376 cores, making their system the second-largest Windows cluster ever deployed and the fastest academic cluster in Sweden. Umea University will run the new supercomputer at its facility known as HPC2N. The university’s cluster employs 672 IBM blade servers, and also marks the first time that Windows HPC Server 2008 has been run publicly on IBM hardware.
This is some serious iron here, people. The little thing where you make all the open windows appear on the screen when you hit windows-tab? Windows Flip 3-D? It’s like buttah.
And it still can’t run Crysis at full speed
dundun-tsssh!!
All that power specs and no word on how long does it take to reboot after a BSoD or how long would it take for hackers to get into it?
TACC Ranger has “only” 3,936 nodes and is #4 on the list. It runs Centos.