Successful Monday
Monday, 8:00 a.m. - the race is on. Torsten and I are banned from the booth from now on and Jens is taking command to guide our ship through the HPCC waters. First results are right where they should be and the team is now dividing up so that the night shift (Timo and Jens) can get some sleep and are back again for the begin of the application race at 6:45 p.m.
In the meantime Val, Jupp, and Chris are discussing and optimizing our screen usage:
and Ray looks impressed if not even dazed by our performance
Things are calming down a little over the day as the HPCC score is submitted and only minor things are left to be prepared.
In the meantime I have taken refuge next to the ATM machine across the hall (there is a power outlet right next to it!)
At 6:30 Ricky Kendall announced the teams and their HPL scores (from today's run) to the present SC08 attendees:
- Purdue with a SiCortex - 694 GFLOPs
- Alberta with an SGI Altix XE cluster - 430 GFLOPs
- IU/TUD (us) with our IBM/Myricom system - 526 GFLOPs
- Tsing Hua (Taiwan) with an HP/Intel system - 703 GFLOPs
- Arizona State with an Cray CX1 and Microsoft - 404 GFLOPs
- Colorado with an nondisclosed Aspen system - 499 GFLOPs
- MIT with a Dell system - 16.8 (!) GFLOPs
At 6:45 the application race was started by the SC08 organizers and our students are doing really well. We are twittering our results as they come so stay tuned and we promise to keep you on the edges of your seats!
