Can you make a supercomputer comprised of DSPs?

[Flux]

Can you make a supercomputer consisting of 1,000 overclocked and shrunk down to 65nm (refridgerated)3.2GHz DSPs(TigerSHARC)(19.9GFLOPs*1000 cores).All I am running on the supercomputer is a physics program.

I know I am a noob at designing supercomputers but bear with me.

[3dilettante]

Systems have been designed with large numbers of specialized processors, including DSPs. It helps if there's just one problem the system has to be working on, so the design can be specifically tailored to getting good performance. Because this is so specific, it's not generally done these days.

There would most likely be other standard CPU cores used for system tasks and code not suited for the DSPs.

In Japan, a lineage of systems based on thousands of simple physics processors has been used for astrophysics simulations.

That being said, the heat output and other limitations of an OCed system would probably make it more worthwhile to have 2000 cores running at a standard clock speed.

Forcing chips to the margins of their clock envelope is risking unreliable behavior, like cooling failures, bad work units, and data corruption. A slight uptick in errors can make some simulation types unworkable on such a system.

[Davros]

I know I am a noob at designing supercomputers but bear with me.


dont worry one day you will be as experienced as the rest of us :D

[Flux]

dont worry one day you will be as experienced as the rest of us :D


What about a super computer comprised of 1,000 Radeon 9800 PRO GPUs?

[Nick]

What about a super computer comprised of 1,000 Radeon 9800 PRO GPUs?
Better use a handful of Radeon X2800 XTX's. ;)

[Flux]

Better use a handful of Radeon X2800 XTX's. ;)

X2800 doesn't exist yet....

[MipMap]

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