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Former Member
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I'm a new member (came in with the /. boom
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Former Member
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If you go over to http://www.ud.com/solutions/outsource/ you will find a link to The Power Calculator on that page for estimating the power of a grid. You can try entering in figures from the Global Statistics pages to make rough (very rough) estimates. Incidentally, you might want to look at the statistics for the Human Proteome Folding Project on http://www.grid.org/about/ while computing this.
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Former Member
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2GHz Intel Pentium 4 has theoretical power of 2400mflops, so if every user here would have that kind of processor the total power of our machines would be 2400mflops * 55 000 = 130tflops. At this time the most "powerfull" supercomputer in the world is IBM's BlueGene with power of 70tflops. It only has about 33 000 processors
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Last time I checked there were roughly 55k devices connected. I don't have any idea on what kind of machines people have nowadays, but this is what I inserted into the calculator:
10000 Intel P4 2GHz 10000 AMD Athlon 2GHz 10000 Intel Celeron 2GHz 10000 Intel P3 1.5GHz 10000 AMD Duron 1GHz Also, utilization for every CPU was 50%. This is what I got: 55 Teraflops That's quite impressive, considering it is only second to IBM's BlueGene/L @ 70.72 Teraflops (http://www.top500.org)! |
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David Autumns
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Just to back up arlehdon calculations
----------------------------------------The "average" PC on the WCG is a Athlon XP 2700+ going on the average points per hour calculation on the global stats. Yesterday together we did 51 years 320 days of processing which is the equivalent of 18935 average PC's on for the full 24 hours. A 2700+ atlon will benchmark at around 2.9Gflops so with 18935 of them I too make that 55 Teraflops of raw number crunching power which only Blue Gene /L can beat at 70.72 Teraflops. It has to be pointed out that due to nature of grid computing there is some redundancy in the task as the results have be verified as correct - this is medical science we are carrying out here - I believe that each work unit is allocated to a different PC on 5 occasions. So apart from the other work carried out by your PC which might take a max of ~5% and the time each PC takes to return the results when it is not crunching at that time. The real power of the grid - at the moment - is about 10Teraflops which is nothing to be sniffed at. Keep on crunching it won't be long until we match BlueGene/L  Dave  |
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