100 000 times more powerful than a home PC

hope it is not so fast it makes it too hard to shoot the Saucers in Space Invaders - anyone notice they had the word COP on the side
 
They neglect to mention in the article that the supercomputer uses multiples of the Cell processor found in the PS3.....
 
psynapt1k said:
They neglect to mention in the article that the supercomputer uses multiples of the Cell processor found in the PS3.....
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Glad they found a use for all the surplus chips.

Any idea how many it uses?
 
bwana said:
Glad they found a use for all the surplus chips.

Any idea how many it uses?
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Many systems on the newest Top500 ranking, set to be released Wednesday at the International Supercomputing Conference in Dresden, Germany, weren't on the list at all when the last one was released in November 2006.

But one familiar supercomputer, IBM's BlueGene/L at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, again topped the Top500 List of Supercomputers with 131,072 processors, staying far ahead of its closest competitors by achieving speeds of 280.6 teraflops. The big change is Cray's Jaguar system, which leapfrogged from the No. 10 to the No. 2 position. The only two other systems to surpass 100 teraflops were also made by Cray: Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Jaguar, at 101.7 teraflops, and Sandia National Laboratory's Red Storm, at 101.4 teraflops.
 
56kMan said:
I hope the thing doesn't develop consciousness. :eek:
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I hope it does :D

Put an end to all this religious goobly de gook we hear every day.
Well, probably not, but will make the goobly de gook more interesting anyways.
 
The Blue Gene/P supercomputer can be configured to reach speeds in excess of three petaflops, a performance level that many thought unattainable only a few short years ago.
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Well I think many people are idiots if they still think limits can be placed on technology.
 
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