Europe's most powerful computer unveiled

[rpm]

http://www.mybroadband.co.za/nephp/?m=show&id=2124

 

[Glipsie]

Seems slow when you compare it to the US BlueGene/L sc running at 280 teraflops ...
http://www.top500.org/lists/2005/11/basic

 

[bwana]

Seems slow when you compare it to the US BlueGene/L sc running at 280 teraflops ...
http://www.top500.org/lists/2005/11/basic

Seems even slower when compared to the one mentioned at the end of the article

The world's most powerful computer is a more advanced version of the Blue Gene, based at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, a US Department of Energy laboratory in California. It is capable of 367 teraflops a second.

 

[Moederloos]

IBM says possible applications are forecasting the weather or predicting the movements of stock markets.

Weather is one thing, the stock market another. Imagine a world in five years time when the average high end desktop is that fast. Now, imagine everyone with stock market analysing software trading on the stock market. The market would react differently to what the analysis was, simply by the changes brought about by people acting on the original analysis (if that makes sense!). Unless of course the software factored in the changes brought about by its own analysis - which seems infinitly recursive....

 

[andres101]

Weather is one thing, the stock market another. Imagine a world in five years time when the average high end desktop is that fast. Now, imagine everyone with stock market analysing software trading on the stock market. The market would react differently to what the analysis was, simply by the changes brought about by people acting on the original analysis (if that makes sense!). Unless of course the software factored in the changes brought about by its own analysis - which seems infinitly recursive....

lol, are you a programmer?

 

[mancombseepgood]

Sounds slow

When you compare it to the Japanese Playstation 3

 

[Sneeky]

Imagine that with a 192 ADSL 3gig cap connection Wooohooooo

 

[mancombseepgood]

Have you ever wondered why it's not Africa's fastest computer... But then don't complain... you can download a picture of it in South Africa in minutes.!

 

[Farquaon]

So, would 3dMark05 = 75000000? (5000 x 1500), and SuperPI = 0.00?

 

[Necuno]

can it play doom ?

 

[dualmeister]

Last time I checked Telkom actually had one of the top Super Computers in the world .... they probably use it to work out their fat phone bills.

Telkom # 462
http://www.top500.org/site/2111

 

[Bona Botse]

imagine playing bf2 on that baby *drool*

 

[antowan]

Anybody seen the movie pi?

 

[Darth Garth]

Last time I checked Telkom actually had one of the top Super Computers in the world .... they probably use it to work out their fat phone bills.

Correct .
http://top500.org/sublist/System.php?id=7211

 

[mancombseepgood]

Haaaa!

Correct .
http://top500.org/sublist/System.php?id=7211

So... do we have someone on the inside willing to share any secrets?

Just a thought?

 

[Darth Garth]

So... do we have someone on the inside willing to share any secrets?

Not really .

 

[mancombseepgood]

Aah

Not really .

Not really on the inside...
or
Not really willing to share secrets? ;-)