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Subject: Building supercomputers
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plzgvhug 29.04.13 - 03:47am
Has anyone here tried to build a supercomputer that has many cpu's networked together? * +

trollulz 29.04.13 - 03:54am
I doubt it... * +

edit.or 29.04.13 - 09:10am
i was once interested in writting an operating system.. but it proved to be a complicated task, mainly because manufactors produce hardware and drivers, it would be difficult to control the experience and id end up bound by its rules? i still think i ve got better chance to build my own hardware, maybe one day i ll try with a monitor and a processor determining current and position of lights to lit. i was interested in asm too but again, hardware limits, i suspect it would be * +

banbury 29.04.13 - 09:21am
you need a lot of processors lol probably a few thousand if you want true supercomputer performance. time to open the wallet big time lol. I mean you could save some dosh and buy around 5 million intel atom cpus that might be equivalent to around 3 thousand core i5s lol?! food for thought eh? * +

edit.or 29.04.13 - 09:44am
much useful as access to the graphic card would be a hell and it likely would be hardware dependent.. the cpu is simply not the best solution today.. so a casual user is simply bound away from any low level creation. id likely have to write drivers for all the hardware on the world to enable my code to work universally.. and frankly, im not crazy about that. maybe 1 day i make my hardware and then i wouldnt care about world standards and to support all that. it could be fun * +

plzgvhug 29.04.13 - 07:46pm
At Southampton university they made a machine out of 64 raspberry pi boards. That would be enough for me to get started I think. * +

norega 29.04.13 - 07:51pm
You can build a supercomputer at home for about 5000 pounds . * +

norega 29.04.13 - 07:52pm
A hi end x79 board and a 6 core cpu ,a quadro gpu and a tesla card * +

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