RoadRunner- Worlds Fastest Computer

guntakeda · 06-10-2008, 06:56 AM

BBC NEWS | Technology | Fastest supercomputer to be built

The new machine will be able to achieve "petaflop speeds," said IBM. One petaflop is the equivalent of 1,000 trillion calculations per second.

Running at peak speed, it will be able to crunch through 1.6 thousand trillion calculations per second.

TOP FIVE SUPERCOMPUTERS
Blue Gene/L, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, California. (131,072 processors)
BGW Blue Gene, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, New York (40,960 processors)
ASC Purple, Department of Energy, USA (12,208 processors)
Columbia, NASA Ames Research Center, USA (10,160 processors)
Tera-10, Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique (CEA), France (8,704 processors)
Source: Top 500 Supercomputers

Liquidfox · 06-10-2008, 06:58 AM

The amount of porn you can watch on that must be amazing!

Colby · 06-10-2008, 07:06 AM

Holy crap, I'll bet that could run crysis on medium quality! Also, Liquid Fox! CHANGE UR AVATARRRRRRR

goodboy5 · 07-30-2008, 08:35 AM

Oh my goodness!!!!!!!!!!NO MORE LAGZ.!

StarStarMoon · 07-30-2008, 08:46 AM

it'll be outdated in a year

Liquidfox · 07-30-2008, 08:59 AM

I think with this it might be possible to play comfortably with gameguard.

SoniK · 07-30-2008, 09:39 AM

Notice the top 4 are form the US.

Atlakai · 07-30-2008, 10:24 AM

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Originally Posted by SoniK

Notice the top 4 are form the US.

Notice that your just another pawn like millions of others in the US.

NöôB · 07-30-2008, 12:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SoniK

Notice the top 4 are form the US.

developed in US but made in China

Covernant · 07-30-2008, 12:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Liquidfox

I think with this it might be possible to play comfortably with gameguard.

There is nothing in the world that would provide comfortable play with gameguard.

Kaya · 07-30-2008, 04:05 PM

What is a super computer l0lz?
In my eyes my computer is super enough <3 my pc

Religion · 07-30-2008, 04:07 PM

wow this is sick

Kaya · 07-30-2008, 04:08 PM

Can you play games and open limewire n use a super computer just like a normal computer ?

fgjk · 07-30-2008, 07:13 PM

Uses 1.5 mega watts... Lol....

death song · 07-30-2008, 08:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Kaya

Can you play games and open limewire n use a super computer just like a normal computer ?

All the ones at our school either run unix / linux or some homebrewed OS made just to run 1 program. I doubt they even have graphics cards or monitors. You just use ssh to log in and run your programs. Assuming you could penetrate the insane firewalls and security they build around these computers, you could probably run the unix versions of gnutella & bittorent clients quite well.

It would be nice for brute-forcing encryption or analyzing chess games I guess.

06-10-2008, 06:56 AM	#1 (permalink)
guntakeda Gunzfactorian Soldier Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Ireland Posts: 890 guntakeda's GamerBio	RoadRunner- Worlds Fastest Computer BBC NEWS \| Technology \| Fastest supercomputer to be built The new machine will be able to achieve "petaflop speeds," said IBM. One petaflop is the equivalent of 1,000 trillion calculations per second. Running at peak speed, it will be able to crunch through 1.6 thousand trillion calculations per second. TOP FIVE SUPERCOMPUTERS Blue Gene/L, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, California. (131,072 processors) BGW Blue Gene, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, New York (40,960 processors) ASC Purple, Department of Energy, USA (12,208 processors) Columbia, NASA Ames Research Center, USA (10,160 processors) Tera-10, Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique (CEA), France (8,704 processors) Source: Top 500 Supercomputers __________________ Got my Account back IGunZ - Katsatori IJJI - Guntak Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.

06-10-2008, 06:58 AM	#2 (permalink)
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