Big Mac Benchmark Drops to 7.4 TFlops 417
coolmacdude writes "Well it seems that the early estimates were a bit overzealous. According to preliminary test results (in postscript format) on the full range of CPUs at Virginia Tech, the Rmax score on Linpack comes in at around 7.4 TFlops. This puts it at number four on the Top 500 List. It also represents an efficiency of about 44 percent, down from the previous result of 80 achieved on a subset of the computers. Perhaps in light of this, apparantly VT is now planning to devote an additional two months to improve the stability and efficiency of the system before any research can begin. While these numbers will no doubt come as a disappointment for Mac zealots who wanted to blow away all the Intel machines, it should still be noted that this is the best price/performance ratio ever achieved on a supercomputer. In addition, the project was successful at meeting VT's goal of developing an inexpensive top 5 machine. The results have also been posted at Ars Technica's openforum."
snazzy new G5 logo too! (Score:4, Funny)
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the REAL reason to build a top-5 supercomputer (Score:5, Funny)
Big mac cluster.. (Score:5, Funny)
Does anyone else have trouble reconciling... (Score:5, Funny)
Catch Phrase (Score:4, Funny)
"Virginia Tech: Home of the Poor Man's Supercomputer and Michael Vick."
My computer is SUPER!!! (Score:2, Funny)
Big Mac? How does that compare with a WOPR? (Score:5, Funny)
I am sick and tired... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Big mac cluster.. (Score:2, Funny)
Um, yeah, could I get some fries with that?
Re:A supercomputer by Any Other Name.... (Score:4, Funny)
Super computers cost more than 5 million dollars
Mainframes cost more than 1 million dollars
Mini-Super computers cost more than 1/4 million dollars
Everything else is by definition a Plain Jane (TM) computer
btw, I've worked on all 4 kinds ;-)
Re:Big mac cluster.. (Score:3, Funny)
which brings up a totally off topic question.... a can of coke is 350 ml. it contains 300 calories.
now, let's say i drink this coke. it is really cold - say 4 degrees. my body temperature is a nice, mamallish 37 degrees. by drinking this coke i am warming up 350 g of what is essentially water from the temperature of the can to that of my body - a difference of 33 degress.
33c * 350ml = 11550 calories.
since the coke is only 300ish calories in the first place...
why don't i lose weight drinking ice cold coke?
Thats nothing (Score:4, Funny)
to manually clock the CPU's.
So far i've managed ONE whole flop.
My record is for the slowest supercomputer
on the planet.
Re:Big mac cluster.. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Thats nothing (Score:3, Funny)
Attach a hall-effect sensor to a hamster wheel to drive the clock.
Go out and buy a hamster.
Re:Thats nothing (Score:2, Funny)
Do they byte ?
This also makes the Big Mac... (Score:2, Funny)
(hides/ducks - I ain't an anonymous coward for nothing!)
Re:snazzy new G5 logo too! (Score:2, Funny)
Way to go there; lets just keep encouraging their terrorism.
Re:A supercomputer by Any Other Name.... (Score:3, Funny)
n.
A mainframe computer that, as the result of birth on an alien planet, is impervious to bullets, is capable of flight, has x-ray vision, can run faster than a speeding train, etc.
"Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No it's a Cray XM-P!"
- Seymour Fights The Demon World, Action Comics, 1932
Source: The American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
new updated troll (Score:3, Funny)