http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=11&articleid=20120622_11_0_Toploc736657
New Tulsa supercomputer announced
By KEVIN CANFIELD World Staff Writer
Published: 6/22/2012 2:40 PM
Last Modified: 6/22/2012 4:45 PM
Top local officials from academia, health care and business gathered Friday at City Hall to announce the new Tulsa Community Supercomputer.
The dense memory supercomputer is projected to be a top 20 academic supercomputer and the top community supercomputer in the country.
The computer, which is being built, will be housed on the third floor of City Hall. It will be used for research by area medical facilities, universities and businesses.
The communitywide effort to build the supercomputer was led by the nonprofit Oklahoma Innovation Institute.
Friday's press conference was attended by Mayor Dewey Bartlett; Steadman Upham, president of the University of Tulsa; Dr. Gerard Clancy, president University of Oklahoma-Tulsa; Tom McKeon, president of Tulsa Community College; and Leigh Goodson, Oklahoma State University-Tulsa vice president of research.
Read more on this story in Saturday's Tulsa World.
i just found an older article about it when i was searching for additional info. i guess it has been in the works for awhile.
http://www.tulsaworld.com/business/article.aspx?subjectid=32&articleid=20110910_32_E1_Apower102071#
Supercomputer being built to serve Tulsa
By ROBERT EVATT World Staff Writer
Published: 9/10/2011 1:56 AM
Last Modified: 9/10/2011 6:01 AM
A powerful supercomputer system is being set up in Tulsa, and multiple organizations will be able to benefit.
The Tulsa Community Supercomputer is being built as a $6.7 million partnership between the University of Tulsa, the University of Oklahoma-Tulsa, Oklahoma State University-Tulsa and Tulsa Community College, although other research centers, businesses and independent enterprises could potentially access the system and help it expand.
David Greer, executive director of TU's Institute for Information Security, said the collaboration isn't just helping to get the project off the ground, it has the potential to build out one of the nation's top 25 supercomputers with academic ties.
"If we combine our resources, we can build a much better computer than we could do individually," he said.
Greer said the supercomputer - projected to be up and running early next year - will speed academic research, assist corporations with massive projects and attract more technology jobs to the area.
The group is in the middle of fundraising for the project and has already accumulated half of the $6.7 million needed, thanks in part to a donation of $800,000 by the not-for-profit Oklahoma Innovation Institute from money it received from the U.S. Economic Development Administration.
Additionally, the city of Tulsa has committed space at One Technology Center, home to City Hall, for the supercomputer.
Greer said the single location not only focuses resources but also addresses the massive amount of infrastructure such a project needs.
"Supercomputing is high-process computing," he said. "It requires a lot of power and a lot of cooling. We estimated that if the University of Tulsa was to build their own facility from scratch, upwards of 60 percent of the budget would be to just to get the room ready."
Rather than being a single-unit in a box, Greer said the supercomputer will be a series of individual nodes linked together and sharing the processing power.
Each node will be more powerful than the average corporate server, and Greer estimated the project group will have 80 to 100 linked up when the supercomputer becomes operational.
And that's just the start. The group is inviting other academic centers, businesses and assorted entities to buy into the partnership and add nodes. Potentially, the supercomputer could have hundreds of them because the system is being built with expansion in mind.
Greer said the partnership structure will ensure that the supercomputer is used as much as possible.
Each partner will use its contributed nodes at any time, but partners also will be able to borrow other nodes that aren't being used at a given time, giving their projects a significant boost. The supercomputer will be able to handle multiple processes simultaneously.
"Members can grow their capabilities on demand, as needed," Greer said.
The results could be dramatic. Greer said he has talked with energy companies that compute gigantic models for exploration planning, and they've told him their processing often takes months. The supercomputer has the potential to cut that time to just a week or two, he said.
Quote from: dioscorides on June 22, 2012, 05:04:06 PM
http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=11&articleid=20120622_11_0_Toploc736657
New Tulsa supercomputer announced
By KEVIN CANFIELD World Staff Writer
Published: 6/22/2012 2:40 PM
Last Modified: 6/22/2012 4:45 PM
Top local officials from academia, health care and business gathered Friday at City Hall to announce the new Tulsa Community Supercomputer.
The dense memory supercomputer is projected to be a top 20 academic supercomputer and the top community supercomputer in the country.
The computer, which is being built, will be housed on the third floor of City Hall. It will be used for research by area medical facilities, universities and businesses.
The communitywide effort to build the supercomputer was led by the nonprofit Oklahoma Innovation Institute.
Friday's press conference was attended by Mayor Dewey Bartlett; Steadman Upham, president of the University of Tulsa; Dr. Gerard Clancy, president University of Oklahoma-Tulsa; Tom McKeon, president of Tulsa Community College; and Leigh Goodson, Oklahoma State University-Tulsa vice president of research.
Read more on this story in Saturday's Tulsa World.
Pink gas reference from Shadows in 3....2....1
Here's the picture they showed Dewey as they were pitching the project.
(http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/images/old-stock-computer.jpg)
"It'll look like this but with some color."
It takes the same amount of power to operate as an entire city neighborhood. Interesting.
Is this socialist? Just curious. ;)
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_60A8zsWp2jY/TMkXoFZpQmI/AAAAAAAAAho/C2AYHgYGMLE/s1600/Colossus_message.JPG)
Quote from: Vashta Narada on June 22, 2012, 07:26:43 PM
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One of my favorite movies! "Colossus:The Forbin Project"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064177/ (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064177/)
(http://images.cheezburger.com/completestore/2010/8/11/92dbe767-e0cf-4349-9be3-10d0f1d7c413.jpg)
(http://meatfighter.com/superman3/part4/computer.jpg)
(http://www.11points.com/images/cyoa/supercomputer.jpg)(http://www.vintagecomputing.com/wp-content/images/retroscan/supercomputer_back_small.jpg)
Quote from: TulsaRufnex on June 24, 2012, 01:48:36 PM
(http://www.11points.com/images/cyoa/supercomputer.jpg)(http://www.vintagecomputing.com/wp-content/images/retroscan/supercomputer_back_small.jpg)
I had every one of those books I think
Is it one of these? If so, it may be time to move.
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The carbon footprint of a processing system like that is enormous. Someone call Al Gore!
Gotta love Supercomputers!!
Got to play on a Cray XMP-48 (shows how old I am...) and a Denelcor HEP for a while. Very cool for the time.
(http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20090609192149/en.futurama/images/4/44/Femputer.png)
I hope it talks.
Oh great, now Oklahoma City will have to get one and call it "OKC's Super Supercomputer."
Quote from: DTowner on June 26, 2012, 03:16:18 PM
Oh great, now Oklahoma City will have to get one and call it "OKC's Super Supercomputer."
It will need a beard.
Quote from: heironymouspasparagus on June 26, 2012, 02:24:34 PM
Gotta love Supercomputers!!
Got to play on a Cray XMP-48 (shows how old I am...) and a Denelcor HEP for a while. Very cool for the time.
I have a watch more powerful than that now.
I had a friend with a Silicon Graphics box that we used to use for rendering and video production. Used to think that was as fast as you could get!
Quote from: Gaspar on June 26, 2012, 03:42:07 PM
I have a watch more powerful than that now.
I had a friend with a Silicon Graphics box that we used to use for rendering and video production. Used to think that was as fast as you could get!
Apparently there is still a market out there for old Cray's for sale. Some people are even trying to get them running. Some of the smaller EL systems only use 10kwatts of power or so, making them into just the coolest household heater you could imagine. But when you get it into the front room, there is no longer room for anything else....
My dad was a research scientist at NIST in Maryland in the 70s and they had a huge old mothballed "super" computer. If I recall correctly it was a Univac from the 50s and it was housed in a single story building. Or it looked single story at ground level, when you walked in it was a huge room where the bottom of the floor was a basement a couple of stories down. The building was next to my dad's lab and I used to be able to wander around it when I was a kid if I could get him to take me over there. The computer filled the room with banks of tape decks and punchcard readers. It looked like something out of Star Trek even though it was by then hopelessly out of date and unused. When I was six or seven it was awesome. I'm sure 100 of those computers couldn't touch my iPhone today.
Quote from: swake on June 26, 2012, 04:44:19 PM
My dad was a research scientist at NIST in Maryland in the 70s and they had a huge old mothballed "super" computer. If I recall correctly it was a Univac from the 50s and it was housed in a single story building. Or it looked single story at ground level, when you walked in it was a huge room where the bottom of the floor was a basement a couple of stories down. The building was next to my dad's lab and I used to be able to wander around it when I was a kid if I could get him to take me over there. The computer filled the room with banks of tape decks and punchcard readers. It looked like something out of Star Trek even though it was by then hopelessly out of date and unused. When I was six or seven it was awesome. I'm sure 100 of those computers couldn't touch my iPhone today.
Line up 100 of those and they would reach around the earth 3 times.....
Big Iron.
Quote from: carltonplace on June 26, 2012, 02:47:02 PM
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I hope it talks.
The body is willing but the flesh is spongy and bruised
Quote from: sgrizzle on June 27, 2012, 01:00:22 PM
The body is willing but the flesh is spongy and bruised
Snoo snoo
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You guys are all wrong.
Here is the real supercomputer. Apparently it likes to play chess.
(http://img.tgdaily.net/sites/default/files/stock/article_images/misc/wopr.jpg)
Just read an article saying that since Tulsa was getting a super computer that OKC investors were looking into getting a super-duper computer.
Here is a sneak preview:
(http://www.kidstechreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/Super-Why-Touch-Learn-Super-Duper-Computer.JPG)
Quote from: Gaspar on June 26, 2012, 02:05:37 PM
The carbon footprint of a processing system like that is enormous. Someone call Al Gore!
Being a time-shared system, it should spend much less time idling and wasting power. ;)
Quote from: Weatherdemon on June 28, 2012, 11:58:01 AM
Just read an article saying that since Tulsa was getting a super computer that OKC investors were looking into getting a super-duper computer.
Here is a sneak preview:
(http://www.kidstechreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/Super-Why-Touch-Learn-Super-Duper-Computer.JPG)
That Super-duper computer is rocking an Alphabetical non-QWRTY keyboard.
Quote from: carltonplace on June 28, 2012, 01:22:40 PM
That Super-duper computer is rocking an Alphabetical non-QWRTY keyboard.
Starting your kids off with a non-qwerty keyboard? That's almost as bad as starting them off with Episode 1.
Quote from: sgrizzle on June 29, 2012, 09:58:22 AM
Starting your kids off with a non-qwerty keyboard? That's almost as bad as starting them off with Episode 1.
I disagree. They can still learn a qwerty. They can't unlearn the suck.
Quote from: sgrizzle on June 29, 2012, 09:58:22 AM
Starting your kids off with a non-qwerty keyboard? That's almost as bad as starting them off with Episode 1.
Non-qwerty keyboard vs Jar Jar Binks? Please.
Jar Jar wins every time. He is the center of all evil.