[Beowulf] Roadrunner picture

[Peter St. John]

Bernard,

I'm  looking  forward to hearing from our  resident  experts, but
meanwhile:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Roadrunner exlains the
architecture some. The buzzword is "triblade",  which is 3 blades  (with an
extension)  employing two types of processors (AMD Opteron and  IBM Cell) in
a hybrid subsystem.  I have  no idea what a single Triblade looks like. The
overallmachine is  then composed of zillions of triblades.
Wow,imagine a Beowulf of those  (jk :-)

Peter (designing a Beowulf of abaci to fit his current budget)

On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 3:45 PM, Bernard Li <bernard at vanhpc.org> wrote:

> Hi all:
>
> I am sure most people have seen the following picture for Roadrunner
> circulating the Net:
>
>
> http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/06/09/fastest.computer.ap/index.html?iref=newssearch
>
> However, they don't look likes blades to me, more like 2U IBM x series
> servers.  Perhaps those are the I/O nodes?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Bernard
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