SiCortex has launched the first high-performance computer – SC648, which is powered solely by a team of bicyclists. With this, SiCortex is the first company to engineer a Linux cluster from the silicon up.
In order to make this computer to work, the team conducted a complex genomics analysis at billions of calculations per second at the same time when the computer was powered by a team of 8-10 bicyclists riding generator-equipped bicycles.
“Ten years ago, this analysis was impossible on even the biggest computers, and now it’s being done on a bicycle powered machine,” said Dr. John Mucci, SiCortex CEO, “Ten years from now, we’ll probably be doing it right down at the docks as they unload the ships. But these tools will only proliferate if we learn to design them to be sustainable.” The computer used in the demo was powered by cyclists from the Jax Racing team using eight special Trek bicycles putting out 260W each.
SiCortex has demonstrated the Super-computer powered by Bicycle at Wired NextFest. As high-end computers have major heating issues and the subsequent cooling ones too that manufacturers and end-users face, the super-computer requires tremendous amount of power for the computer to run as well as keep it cool. The company has proved its system has been designed to provide extremely fast calculations and reduce power consumption.
