What's the fastest computer you've used?

[Geffy]

we have a quad cpu fedora server machine at uni, not sure about the make of cpu or the amount of ram though

 

[Henyman]

Dell server, school has 6
1) Server 1
2) Server 2
3) File server
4) intranet
5) squid (proxy)
6) censor net (web filter)

aprox 200 connections, they all have realvnc running - goes to a maaasive 30" screen in server room to admins can spy at random on people (screen refreshes every 5 seconds to bring up 4 more pc desktops

duel Xeon processors 3.4GHz
20Gb ddr
~3TB total server storage

 

[NetRyder]

Dell server, school has 6
1) Server 1
2) Server 2
3) File server
4) intranet
5) squid (proxy)
6) censor net (web filter)

aprox 200 connections, they all have realvnc running - goes to a maaasive 30" screen in server room to admins can spy at random on people (screen refreshes every 5 seconds to bring up 4 more pc desktops

duel Xeon processors 3.4GHz
20Gb ddr
~3TB total server storage

Holy crap...now that's something.

 

[Henyman]

upgraded it all last year

ordered 6X brand new servers......as well as an 8mb line

had a new server room custom built, it is dam sweet. pity i finished 6th form as they just put it in

 

[SPeedY_B]

My PowerMac

 

[Mainframeguy]

IBM z990 here

As of today I telnet through to my account on this brand new box -

in addition to 64 GB memory this beast had 32 MB cache! it is fast enough to support all the corporate useage, weighs in at a few thousand pounds weight and costs about $125,000 at entry level

 

[ming]

P4 2.8 @ uni....
hoping to get meself an AMD3500+ (winchester) in xmas.

 

[leencaci]

I just built mine. P4 550 3.4Ghz HT, Intel 915PBLL MB, 1GB OCZ DDR2 533Mhz, 2 160GB Maxtor Sata's RAID 0, 2 200GB ATA133, 2 160GB ATA133, Radeon XT 600 PCI-Express Video Card, Hauppauge PVR-250 TV Tuner, Sony 16X DVD-ROM, Sony Dual Layer DVD Burner. So this is the fastest I have used. I want to put another 1GB of DDR2 533Mhz in it.

leencaci

 

[Zedric]

I've used a cray!!!
For real I have...

I've sat on a Cray! Makes a nice sofa.

Not the one in the picture, very similar, but red color.
http://www.ucar.edu/educ_outreach/vtour/cray.jpg

 

[Tittles]

Amd 64bit 3200+ i think i know its a low 3000

 

[Mainframeguy]

I've sat on a Cray! Makes a nice sofa.

Not the one in the picture, very similar, but red color.
http://www.ucar.edu/educ_outreach/vtour/cray.jpg

I think SITTING on it is not quite USING it?!!

 

[NetRyder]

As of today I telnet through to my account on this brand new box -

in addition to 64 GB memory this beast had 32 MB cache! it is fast enough to support all the corporate useage, weighs in at a few thousand pounds weight and costs about $125,000 at entry level

I knew someone would come and kick everybody else's ass. I think that's going to be hard to beat now.

 

[onimkron]

I've sat on a Cray! Makes a nice sofa.

Not the one in the picture, very similar, but red color.
http://www.ucar.edu/educ_outreach/vtour/cray.jpg

That just looks beautiful

The fastest I've used is, sadly, probably mine. Never actually 'seen' the unviersity's server setup.

 

[Mainframeguy]

I knew someone would come and kick everybody else's ass. I think that's going to be hard to beat now.

awww... yeah, but I only have access to about five of the O/S'es it is simultaneously hosting So since it hosts like about twenty you could score me at 25% of the machine?

Anyway I honestly want someone else to show something better.... we must have ONE OSNN member from CERN? Or NASA??!! .... /me waits and dreams of massively parallel computers!

 

[Zedric]

I think SITTING on it is not quite USING it?!!

Yes it is. Just not for computing...

The new Sun servers are much faster anyway, I don't have the specs but most of them are quad cpu with 4GB ram. Sadly any user process is only allowed 25% of one cpu at a time.

 

[Grandmaster]

I haven't used a machine anywhere near the speed's some have posted here...

 

[NetRyder]

we must have ONE OSNN member from CERN? Or NASA??!! .... /me waits and dreams of massively parallel computers!

Man, can you imagine the power of the NASA SGI supercomputer? 10,240 Intel Itanium 2 processors!

 

[funky dredd]

Currently running:
26 Dell 2650's dual xeaon 3.2 (with fiber channel QLogic cards)
1 6650 (web application server)
1 CX500 SAN with 3 tb of space
2 Brocade switches (for SAN)
2 gigs of ram in each server...

All of this for one application

 

[ElementalDragon]

Mainframeguy: Zedric is right. he wasn't computing with it, but he was USING it as a sofa.

 

[Ohzopants]

netryder:
the cray I used was at environment canada (my dad works there). They rent their supercomputers so when they were replacing the cray they kept it while getting the new one up and running so it had a LOT of idle time. My dad brought me into to his office one night and I got to play a flight sim on a cray. It was fun as hell!!!