United Devices claims 75 Tflop/s supercomputer platformAustin 01 October 2001 United Devices' network has reached a sustained operating capacity of 65 teraflops, approximately five times more powerful than the world's most powerful supercomputer, the company says. More than 560,000 members and 960,000 devices have joined the United Devices Member Community since its inception last year. Currently, the Member Community is working with the University of Oxford to find treatments for cancer and with Exodus Communications to test Internet performance.
"This achievement represents an important milestone in the field of distributed
computing," said Dr. Jack Dongarra, Distinguished Professor at the University of
Tennessee. "The United Devices Global MetaProcessor represents a virtual
supercomputer resource with greater raw computational power than the world's top
ten supercomputers combined. While this technology is not applicable to all
computational problems, it can provide a very efficient solution for a range of
applications in life sciences, industrial engineering, and other sectors."
In a corporate environment, the United Devices MetaProcessor platform turns
desktop PCs into a tool for solving computational problems. Enterprises
can use this computational power to expand the scope of research and accelerate
the delivery of results that directly impact their business. Studies show that
enterprise desktop PC processors are mostly idle when performing typical
business tasks, such as e-mail and word processing. If the average desktop PC
has a 500Mhz processor, a thousand average desktops have 400 gigaflops of idle
computational power, the equivalent of a 500-node server farm.
Ad Emmen |
 |