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1.4 million now buys more power than all members of wcg

Here is a link to a new super computer that could probably do more results than all the members of wcg and only cost 1.4 million dollars http://www.eng.vt.edu/news/virginia-tech-s-wu...rful-supercomputer-masses. Marist college leads wcg in all categories and has 7820 devices. Even at the extremely low price of $500 a device that is $3,910,000 for those devices alone. So I am sure that all the devices that are being used for wcg would amount to over a billion dollars. At the new low cost for a super computer which will probably go lower in the future, there will be a time in the very near future when IBM will decide that it is cheaper to buy a super computer than it is to buy all the servers and pay for all the broadband it needs today. Remember that a computer under IBM's control would not need to do each result at least twice so that super computer could be only a half as powerful as all of wcg and still produce the same number of unique results.
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Re: 1.4 million now buys more power than all members of wcg

The power of this supercomputer is based on GPUs. WCG devices crunch with CPUs.
Imagine now all the devices running on WCG with GPUs. You cannot compare apples (CPU) and oranges (GPU). wink
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Re: 1.4 million now buys more power than all members of wcg

Remember that a computer under IBM's control would not need to do each result at least twice so that super computer could be only a half as powerful as all of wcg and still produce the same number of unique results.


first, IBM has very little to do with the results, they are providing the servers to distribute wu and passing the results back. Any "hits" will still need to be verified
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Rather than think of one as possibly supplanting the other, think of one as definitely complementing the other. More to the point: WCG may use several of those supercomputers to add to its roster of nodes. Mathematically, that would be: WCGpower = WCGcruncherPower + N*supercomputer. Where N is greater than or equal to 1. Apples or oranges? No, apples and oranges ! wink
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Re: 1.4 million now buys more power than all members of wcg

I remember Watson and how they want computers to help doctors.
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Would be wonderful to be able to play with such hardware.

btw, Marist College doesn't lead in ANY category according to the WCG stats pages.
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Even if we compare "corporation posing as an individual" type members

http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/stat/viewStatsByMemberY.do?sort=points

Marist isn't no1 in everything, and at that rate won't be holding the rest for too much longer.
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