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NAP2614
Master Cruncher Joined: Mar 27, 2007 Post Count: 2546 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Milky Way 2 has 16,000 nodes, each with two Intel Xeon IvyBridge processors and three Xeon Phi processors, for a combined total of 3,120,000 computing cores.
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Former Member
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That's a big number, so much so, that they maybe have to consider to disconnect from the public grid so the volunteer efforts can be relocated to other researches... down to earth, WCG sciences for instance ;>)
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Sgt.Joe
Ace Cruncher USA Joined: Jul 4, 2006 Post Count: 7846 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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It may have the world's top spot for compute power, but it also probably has the world's top spot for power consumption - 24 megawatts.
----------------------------------------The TH-2 system will have a peak power consumption under load for the system of 17.8 megawatts. If cooling is added, the total power consumption 24 megawatts. Glad I am not paying that electric bill.  Cheers
Sgt. Joe
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ryan222h
Senior Cruncher Joined: Sep 4, 2006 Post Count: 425 Status: Offline |
To realize how much electricity that is, I looked at my electric bill.
----------------------------------------My electric rate (Xcel energy) is about 7 cents per KWH. A system using 24MW would cost $1.2 million per month in electricity cost alone, assuming it is run 24/7. 0.07 X 24,000 kwh (24 megawatts) = $1680 per hour X 24 hours per day X 30 days per month = $1.2 million! Edit: Added calulation  [Edit 1 times, last edit by ryan222h at Jun 17, 2013 5:47:36 PM] |
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David Autumns
Ace Cruncher UK Joined: Nov 16, 2004 Post Count: 11062 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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.and then there's keeping it cool
----------------------------------------Each of those Xeon's is ~£1500 list retail in the UK I make the bill for the processors alone £368 million LOL http://www.top500.org/system/177999 Probably get a discount from Intel for more than a 1/4 Million CPU's Grid computing has to be the future Don't mention the Electricity Bill if it ran in the UK !! Don't get me started  Dave  |
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alged
Master Cruncher FRANCE Joined: Jun 12, 2009 Post Count: 2369 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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and all of this has been conceived by human brain working on low
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Former Member
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Aha, nothing to do with the BOINC project Milkyway. Another thread popped up on the topic: http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread_thread,35264
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BladeD
Ace Cruncher USA Joined: Nov 17, 2004 Post Count: 28976 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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That's a big number, so much so, that they maybe have to consider to disconnect from the public grid so the volunteer efforts can be relocated to other researches... down to earth, WCG sciences for instance ;>) Most of the power of the BOINC Milkyway project come from GPUs, so they can't be used on WCG at the moment. |
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