Booting the COSMOS VIII Supercomputer (SGI Altix UV 1000)
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- Опубліковано 14 жов 2024
- This is the latest supercomputer in the Jim Austin Computer Collection at the Computer Sheds. It is the newer part of the COSMOS VIII Supercomputer from the University of Cambridge - an SGI Altix UV 1000.
More information about the machine: www.damtp.cam.a...
A video of Stephen Hawking introducing the machine: • Video
The journey to the sheds: / 930077186937192448
www.computermus...
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The interfering hex door pattern is a beautiful piece of industrial design.
Lovely! I have two IRUs from an altix 450/4700. It's lovely to see this beast live. Wish I could come play, but my piece of supercomputer will have to do :-) thanks for sharing
Thanks for adding this video. Let me know if you need some repairs to bring back things to life
5:00
love the sound of this monster reving up.
...but why are SGIs even obso ones are so still expensive, they went from >rare niche usage for 3d and architecture to >rare collector items
That must be cool to tell people you work on super computers
x7542 cpus, quad core xeons, each has a passmark score of over 8000. With all 4 cabinets running, a theoretical max passmark score of 1.5 million.
Are they doing somekind of dummy load test on the server(s)?
As I understand it, it runs a stock standard Linux kernel. So you should be able to install your choice of Linux distros on it.
That's a long list of installed CPU's.....shoul have done a '|grep processor |wc -l'
Or why not just collapse that down to “grep -c processor”.
lscpu
are x7542 vintage yet? God, I'm old...
far from it but for the usage of that machine, i guess they upgraded to ryzens/epycs. but you wouldn't mind having a xeon of this generation right now. I wouldn't. for sure.
Just imagine how many threads show in htop
Anyone know how that hexagonal "mesh on mesh" design (the black and green) that gives the cool visual effect is called? I would like to look into it and reproduce it for a project/pc case
The cooling system on those machines sound like a high by-pass jet engine. A sweet sound compared to the annoying high pitch of other systems.
0:35 Back in the day when cables were real cables, connectors were real connectors, and small furry--never mind.
how long does it take to boot
wouawww ...but its just for collection or use for other utility ? 10 year is not too old for museum only ? sorry for my english
It's out of use, not only because it's not powerfule enough, but because its power consumption. This machine takes 2-3 times more power than a modern one for the same calculation
@@varkokonyi The best Nehalem-EX CPUs equippable in this machine, the Xeon X7560, which was fabricated on a 45 nm lithographic node process, is capable of performing approximately half the IPC of a first-generation AMD Zen architecture (i.e. Ryzen, Threadripper, EPYC) processor when compared at roughly the same clock frequency; the TDP is 130 W for 8-core/16-thread processor with four DDR3-1066 memory controllers (34.133 GB/sec), three 6.4 GT/sec (6.4 GB/sec full-duplex) bidirectional QPI links, and 32 PCI-E 2.0 bidirectional lanes (16 GB/sec full-duplex); and you would need 8 to match the compute performance of a 32-core/64-thread EPYC 7601 CPU, which has a 180 W TDP rating, 64 PCI-E 3.0 lanes (64 GB/sec bidirectional), and eight DDR4-2666 memory channels (170.66 GB/sec). The EPYC 7601 would have 5.77 times lower TDP rating than the combined 1,040 TDP rating of eight Xeon X7560 CPUs, which would be required to match it in computational performance.
>tfw maintaining AS/400 machines that are almost as old as me and in prod
>10yo HPC is a museum thing
>posted from a 2011 thinkpad W520 that turned 10yo
Holy Crap... I'd love to play around with that beauty... I can only imagine what kinds of fun I'd have provisioning that for... everything.. PXE boot targets for ALL the other computers there on campus, personal roaming VMs for staff... hnnng me wanty
1:17 SLES! ’Cos 26 drive letters would never be enough for this baby...
It is unbelievable how fast those machines end up in a computer museum (or on the scrapyard).
Also unbelievable is, why someone would configure 13GB swap on a machine with half a TB of ram. If you run out of memory on such a machine you want the offending process to die fast without harming other processes. The 13GB swap would only extend the time it takes to die but it would die nonetheless, but now with a slow and horrible death that affects the whole system (thrashing). So disable swap and plan memory usage in advance. Follow those rules especially in a museum because much more people will look at these machines and they should learn the right thing to do. ;)
2:50 wc -l /proc/cpuinfo
Also worth a try:
ls -l /sys/devices/system/cpu/
2:57 Yeah, OK, 192 CPUs!
Given that my /proc/cpuinfo contains 27 lines per (virtual) CPU, that must mean your total listing would have been about 5184 lines.
How old is it?
But can it max out crysis?
But can it play Saints Row 2?
Can it fuckery...
5:01 - 5:05 why do those fans sound like the THX thing
Hehe
Wow! 192 CPU´s! i need this.
Can you handle Linux? That’s what it runs.
Blender www.blender.org/ can do multi-threaded rendering, and I don’t think it has a limit on the number of CPUs it can handle.
Though it would be a waste to run it on a super. A renderfarm would be cheaper. Unless, of course, you already had a machine going spare...
192 cores. x7542 has 6 cores per CPU. So 32 CPUs.
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Can it run Crysis on low?
with about 192 xeons and 400 gigs, if it can not run crysis on 4k and raytracing with software emulation, blame the system administrator.
in theory if it could run Windows Server with a license for unlimited CPUs (enterprise) pretty sure it could even run natively, I need to test this hypothesis.
I would like to see a lstopo image of this machine.
xD
"Phaser on overload!!!!!"
And just to think that the GeForce GTX 1050 in my laptop is more than 10x as powerful (FLOPS wise) as that supercomputer.
I don't think your math works. This system is 1.8 Tflops. Your laptop graphics is 58 Gflops, 64-bit double precision. That's about 30 times slower.
@@lookoutforchris not only that but the gigaflop output of a Geforce are operations designed for graphics rendering, with the help of APIs and defined instructions.
on this HPC, this is literally any operation you want, hecne the issue with the term "gigaflops".
OMG... please, next time just lscpu... :)))))))
Cable management is a bit messy....
I love in supercomputer sgi and suse linux wwww
dislike for using window$
seriously what is up with you?
calm down man it's win7, on a glorious Toughbook! it's «tolerable».
Would hate to think I was footing the electricity bill...