Roadrunner Supercomputer to be Decomissioned

[CFDFEAGURU]

I have always wanted to work with a supercomputer. My CFD (computational fluid dynamics) analyst has 128 paralleled processors at his office and that is as close as I have come so far.

Maybe I could buy this one? :)

http://phys.org/news/2013-03-line-roadrunner-supercomputer.html

Thanks
Matt

 

[syrf3763]

there are some people doing some weird things with ARM chips.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/adapteva/parallella-a-supercomputer-for-everyone?ref=category

multi-threading, multi-cores, parallel, those concepts can be confusing. you could either make it multi-seats while more people sharing the same computer or one person using more than one computer.

I think I would just build my own computer with dual xeon e5 with 64gb of ram, add one of these if it's not enough:
http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/high-performance-computing/high-performance-xeon-phi-coprocessor-brief.html

if the software it's related to cuda, then Nvidia , opencl then AMD.