SC08..wow !!!

This year again I got an opportunity to go to SC08: the most happening conference in SuperComputing. Came on Saturday to Austin, Texas and was busy with all the assignments, workshops, tutorials, speaker sessions in the morning and the excellent parties in the evening hosted by different companies. As a student volunteer, I got to attend some really interesting sessions (nVIDIA's GPU tutorial, Patterson's invited talk, etc.) Whoever thinks that iPhone cannot find a market should come to SC, majority of the people had iPhones (students, professors, professionals, etc).

India has 8 supercomputers in the TOP500 list:

In November 2008, 8 systems appeared in the TOP500 list.

Rank	System	Procs	Memory(GB)	Rmax (GFlops)	Rpeak (GFlops)	Vendor
13	EKA Cluster Platform 3000 BL460c, Xeon 53xx 3GHz, Infiniband	14384	N/A	132800	172608	HP
69	PARAMcluster, Xeon 73xx 2.93 Ghz, Infiniband	4608	N/A	37804	54005.8	HP
214	eServer Blue Gene Solution	8192	N/A	18665	22937.6	IBM
335	BL460c, Xeon 54xx 3 GHz, Infiniband	1728	N/A	15966.7	20736	HP
429	BL460c, Xeon E54xx 2.83 GHz, GigEthernet	2208	N/A	14002.3	24994.6	HP
437	Cluster Platform 3000 DL160, Xeon 54xx 3.0 GHz, GigE	2048	N/A	13917	24576	HP
479	BL460c, Xeon 54xx 3.0GHz, GigEthernet	1920	N/A	13159.1	23040	HP
482	BladeCenter HS21 Cluster, Xeon quad core 2.66 GHz, GigEthernet	2400	N/A	13080.1	25603.2	IBM

Virginia Tech's System X is out of the TOP500, but we have a new Apple cluster System G (System Green) ranked 280. System X was ranked 4 in 2005 and was the only man-made self-assembled MacOS cluster in the rankings then.

280

Center for High-End Computer Systems, Virginia Tech United States

SystemG - Apple Mac Pro Cluster, E54xx 2.8 Ghz, Infiniband / 2008 Self-made

2048

16.87

22.94

Today's the last day of the conference, I haven't won anything in the raffles. But it's been an interesting conference meeting with lots and lots of people, making friends, all a part of networking. And tomorrow I get back to work, which is very interesting as well (Ahem .....)