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Open House Day – Science CampusGarching 15.10.2006

Inform yourself about the latest
progress on different science projects at the Science Campus Garching on sunday, october 15th 2006.
At this event you have the chance to talk to scientist about their
work, get things explained and make your own suggestions or simply
ask them questions you wanna know.
Science Campus Garching consists of several Max Planck Institutes
(MPI), the European
Southern Observatory (ESO)
, Ludwig Maximillians University
Munich (LMU), Leibnitz Rechenzentrum (LRZ) and more.
Further the subway construction to Science Campus Garching is
finished and will open the day before.
LRZ will present one of Germany’s top supercomputer SGI Altix 4700 with 27 TFlops (doubled next
year).
garching_kl
You can take a look at the latest fusion reactor experiments, reach
for the stars at ESO‘s
remote controlled Very Large Telescope(VLT) in Chile, or or or…

Open House Day – Science Campus Garching 15.10.2006

Inform yourself about the latest
progress on different science projects at the Science Campus Garching on sunday, october 15th 2006.
At this event you have the chance to talk to scientist about their
work, get things explained and make your own suggestions or simply
ask them questions you wanna know.
Science Campus Garching consists of several Max Planck Institutes
(MPI), the European
Southern Observatory (ESO)
, Ludwig Maximillians University
Munich (LMU), Leibnitz Rechenzentrum (LRZ) and more.
Further the subway construction to Science Campus Garching is
finished and will open the day before.
LRZ will present one of Germany’s top supercomputer SGI Altix 4700 with 27 TFlops (doubled next
year).
garching_kl
You can take a look at the latest fusion reactor experiments, reach
for the stars at ESO‘s
remote controlled Very Large Telescope(VLT) in Chile, or or or…

GPU Power outperforming CPU Power

According to the latest
F@H statistics
, graphics cards processors are pretty much
outperforming traditional CPU’s.
The current factor is about 75 GFlops on GPU against an average of
1GFlops on a CPU. (this varies because of very old processors and
modern processors with about 14 GFlops).

Anyway at the moment we see 370 GPUs doing the same amount of work
as 29000 CPUs. This is really great for the F@H project, although the GPU
cores at the moment are only capable of doing basic calculations
with the gromacs application. Other applications have to be heavily
rewritten, and/or are not able to run every calculation on GPUs and
therefore have to use the main CPU for those parts of the
calculation.