AppleSeed: I need one of these...

[themacko]

UCLA went a little nuts with a bunch of Power Macs. They achieved "over 100 Gigaflops on 16 Dual-Processor
800-MHz G4s, our team's software has proved the computational potential of
the underlying PowerPC hardware."

The professors that did this are giving a lecture and possibly a presentation on my campus tomorrow .. so if I have time I'll check it out. I don't have any idea what the purpose was, but their site looks rather interesting. Not to mention, if you have four or five Power Macs sitting around they give instructions on how to setup your own AppleSeed Cluster.

http://exodus.physics.ucla.edu/appleseed/appleseed.html

 

[AdmiralAK]

Can I have one of those systems ?
Preferable with a great audio systems an 5 cinematic touch screens

 

[gkhanna]

If you use your G4 for numerical computation, this may be of interest to you. I've had a page with computing tools for OS X for some time now .. I just added some information and analysis on how one could the full power of a dual G4 for numerical work.

The page is about, using AltiVec and using both processors in parallel for C and Fortran codes. The speed gain upon using both parallelization and vectorization is huge. On my tests .. it varied between <b>4-10</b>!

For more details visit: <a href="http://floyd.liunet.edu/~gkhanna/hpc.html">http://floyd.liunet.edu/~gkhanna/hpc.html</a>.

 

[vanguard]

Gaurav,

Nice web page. I've been wonder exactly what it takes to take advantage of the Altivec engine.

I wonder any of the JVM implementations can do it?

Anyway, I have a pet interest in HPC and I enjoyed your site.

 

[sjb2016]

You know what I hate most about cool things like this, I have no real need for them, other than to say that I created a parallel cluster. I've got enough computers and a hub (I'd borrow 1 computer and the hub from my work). I just have no need for such processing power. Oh well, maybe some rainy afternoon I'll set one up and do some of the fractal things you can download from the website. What am I talking about? Anyway, it's this kind of cool stuff we need on this board. Excellent work.

 

[ksv]

Cool, I set up a triple-parallell computer (iBook/500, PowerMacG3/400, iMac/333), and got a total of... 585 MegaFlops!

Whee, I seriously need a G4 or two