Tokyo University's Grape-DR supercomputer is a tangled green powerhouse

We live in an ecologically minded era, where Ford spends more time talking up the new Mustang's mpg rating than its 0 - 60 times. Appropriate, then, that supercomputers are now being rated not on ultimate speed but on speed relative to power consumption. Top of the Green500 supercomputer list is the Grape-DR, a Japanese cluster at the University of Tokyo powered by a combination of 128 Intel Core i7-920 processors and four bespoke accelerator chips. That combination enables the system to manage 815.43 megaflops per watt, a good bit higher than the 773.38 rating an IBM-based machine in Germany managed. That's quite a bit lower than the team hopes to achieve, indicating they can boost that rating by 50 percent by the end of the year. Hopefully by then they invest in some cable management. Two of our staff network engineers passed out after just glancing at the picture above. The third... well, he didn't fare so well.

[benjgvps Posted Jul 13th 2010 5:18PM]

@DizWhiz *Cringe* Makes me want to break a door down during the night and attack it with some zip ties.

[benjgvps Posted Jul 13th 2010 5:20PM]

Imagine the power if it was filled with GTX 480s... Though at that point it would no longer green, it would be considered the largest waste of the ozone layer ever created... Right after a Justin Bieber concert.

[montusama Posted Jul 13th 2010 5:42PM]

Looks like my type of wiring...

[raggywow Posted Jul 13th 2010 5:59PM]

OH wow, never really thought about it that way before.

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[johnnylin0924 Posted Jul 13th 2010 9:49PM]

It looks like the monster in RE5, I guess they are building a monster..play too much games.

[theRumble Posted Jul 14th 2010 2:42AM]

If it aint broke dont fix it! I think it looks cool.

[amayes Posted Jul 22nd 2010 7:59AM]

Next step cable racks and ties!