A Petaflop machine in 20 racks?

[Eric Kuhnke]

Quoting from the article:
An ordinary desktop PC outfitted with six PCI cards, each containing four of the chips, would perform at about 600 gigaflops (or more than half a teraflop). 

Assuming you were to build cluster systems with six PCI cards each, it would require 4U rack cases...  Unless these floating point cards come as low-profile PCI (MD2 form factor)?  

20 racks * 42U per rack = 840U / 4 = 210 nodes, not counting switching equipment.  Petaflop with 210 compute nodes?


At 04:15 PM 10/16/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>        Check out this article over at wired:
>
>http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,60791,00.html
>
>  It makes all sorts of wild claims, but what do you guys think?  
>Obviously, there's memory bandwidth limitations due to PCI.  Does anyone 
>know anything else about these guys?
>
>Cheers,
>Bryce
>
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