Paper showing Linpack scalability of mainstream clusters

[Roger L. Smith]

On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, Scott Shealy wrote:

> >From reading the paper I was particularly impressed with the 50W power
> consumption of each node.  We have an Athlon Cluster(1.33 GHZ) and those
> things are very power hungry.  We underestimated how much they draw and had
> to install an extra circuit in addition to the ones we had planned for...
>
> Perhaps there is yet another efficiency measure - MFlops/kwatt or something
> like that.
>
> So for the I-cluster that would have been
>
> 75 Gflops/(210 * 50 W/1000) = 7.14GFlops/kW
>
> Roger, out of curiosity could you do a similar calculation?


I checked our UPS before and after powering up the first 128 nodes (256
PIII 1GHz, 1GB, 20GB IDE), and came up with around 20kVA of power draw.
I haven't converted that to Wattage (they are running at 208V,
if anyone wants to do the math).


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