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VT nears completion of HokieSpeed, world's 96th most powerful supercomputer
12/23/2011



If basking in the ubiety of a mighty supercomputer is on your list of "must-haves" when selecting a proper university, then you may wish to fire off an admissions form to the Hokies at zigzag fence Tech. The school's HokieSpeed system is now in its final stages of testing, which combines 209 winnow




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categorize computers, each powered by dual six-core Xeon E5645 CPUs and two NVIDIA M2050 / C2050 448-core GPUs, with a single-precision peak processing capability of 455 teraflops. To put things in perspective, HokieSpeed is now the 96th most mighty abbey electronic brain* in the world, and yet it was built for merely $1.4 million in loose change -- the majority of which came from a subject Science underpinning grant. As a further claim to fame, HokieSpeed is the 11th most energy-efficient supercomputer in the world. Coming soon, the system will drive a 14-foot wide by four-foot tall visualization wall, which is to consist of eight 46-inch Samsung 3D televisions humming in unison. After all, with basically limitless potential, these scientists will need a fitting backdrop for all those Skyrim sessions. The full PR follows the break, consummative with commentary from the system's mastermind, teacher Wu Feng.

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