CSC organizes a Cray CX1 programming competition at Alternative Party
category: general [glöplog]
Ever found the craving to make demos for a supercomputing platform?
http://www.csc.fi/english/csc/news/customerinfo/alternative_party
http://www.csc.fi/english/csc/news/customerinfo/alternative_party
That's awesome!
SDK? :) There's no information on the Altparty site.
preacher, I think it comes with windows it's an overkill x86_64 in the end, and cray provides windows bundled cx1:s :)
Looking forward to the flood of confused "runs at 0.1fps my machine" thumbdowns when these demos go up on Pouet :-)
Sounds fun.
At least you don't have to bother with optimization ;)
and what does it use for realtime graphics output?
http://www.cray.com/Products/CX1/Product/Specifications.aspx
http://www.cray.com/Products/CX1/Product/Specifications.aspx
gasman: realtime raymarching of non euclidean geometry ftw! that's needed, and I too am looking forward to those comments.
sounds interesting..
How much drystone-mips can it crunch, and how many threads do I need to reach the theoretical perfomance?
How much drystone-mips can it crunch, and how many threads do I need to reach the theoretical perfomance?
yeti: go for raytracing or other kinds of non-hw rendering
!ntel (xeon) processors, so not for me...
The mips will depend on the number of processors installed, but it'll probably be pretty high.
The mips will depend on the number of processors installed, but it'll probably be pretty high.
macaw: software rendering also needs an output device?
make yourself useful, calculate the cure for cancer
only if it looks good.
Now they do have more info available: http://www.altparty.org/2009/competition-rules.html#csc-compo. It seems to be a Linux box with 12 quadcore Xeons, Red Hat, OpenMP and MPI 2.
