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839 teraflops per second. Beat that IBM!

smh.com.au — Japan's NEC Corp has announced the launch of what it called the world's most powerful supercomputer on the market, meant for advanced use in the sciences.

Who dugg this? Made popular Oct 26, 2007

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  • chingy1788, on 10/29/2007, -10/+56teraflops per second?
    so this thing is increasing its power every second?
    wow
    soon it will surpass the processing capacity of every living thing on the planet combined
  • Terra21, on 10/29/2007, -0/+36Hmm, wonder if it can run Crysis.
  • cjhanks, on 10/27/2007, -1/+19Is that a unit of computational acceleration? Floating Point Operations per second per second?

    So that means it's 0 to 10,000 Terflops in about 11.91 seconds.
  • alciadanet, on 10/29/2007, -0/+17Teraflop: A trillion floating point operations per second
    Teraflops per second: A trillion floating point operations per second^2
  • Ramble, on 10/28/2007, -1/+16It's power is accelerating every second?
    Now, that is impressive.
  • xirtap, on 10/28/2007, -1/+14Um.. Folding@Home has currently over 1000 tflops.
  • Araxen, on 10/26/2007, -2/+12imagine a beowulf cluster of those!
  • shifty2, on 10/26/2007, -0/+9teraflops = 1 trillion floating point operations per second

    so in this case "teraflops per second" = 1 trillion floating point operations per second per second
    either the writer doesn't know what a "flops" is or perhaps we should take the writing literally... if so, holy dog ***** thats fast!
  • drizzlelicious, on 10/27/2007, -0/+8PS3 = 2.18 tflops. 839/2.18 = 385. So a room full of PS3s is pretty much this thing
  • robphillips, on 10/26/2007, -1/+8the "ps" in "flops" stands for "per second" .. so thats per second per second?
  • Beerduck, on 10/26/2007, -0/+7quoting wikipedia: "Another distributed computing project, Folding@home, reported nearly 1.3 PFLOPS of processing power in late September 2007."
  • inactive, on 11/13/2007, -3/+10Cant they like stick a room full of PS3 and be done with it.
  • loneBoat, on 10/27/2007, -0/+5839 flops per SECOND? I remember when it was flops per HOUR! Yup, the good ol' FLOPH.
  • Error601, on 10/27/2007, -0/+5Funny thing too is they made the classic mistake that "teraflops" is plural because of the "s" and actually used the word "teraflop".
  • misterB1138, on 10/26/2007, -0/+5Its growing at an exponential rate, pretty soon it will launch the nukes
  • t1m0j5, on 10/27/2007, -0/+5PORN!!!! power
  • catfish182, on 10/26/2007, -0/+5this computer is nice but it does not stand a chance up against my gibson
  • PBerger, on 10/28/2007, -2/+7"...when they are completed." Until then.
  • veriix, on 10/26/2007, -3/+8Open office would still take 5min to load.
  • Damian91, on 10/28/2007, -0/+4So you're telling me.....I never have to do math homework again?
  • armo, on 10/27/2007, -0/+4It probably will, if it's anything like the rest of the worlds supercomputers
    http://www.top500.org/stats/list/29/osfam
  • 80hd, on 10/27/2007, -0/+4Who else remembers in the nineties when a gigaflop meant business?
  • fLUx1337, on 10/26/2007, -0/+4Well not exactly......A room full of PS3s would be let down by the cabling....so yeh, you could do distributed computing at home, but you wouldn't get enough power to run anything like a space shuttle, which needs all the power to be aimed at doing just a few precise calculations.

    Still, I guess projects which can use distributed computing are still very important, so it would be £75k ($140k) well spent I guess.....
  • ronin691, on 10/26/2007, -1/+5No, not yet.
  • guestaccount, on 10/27/2007, -0/+3Does it have SLI?
  • cawpin, on 10/27/2007, -1/+4No, because it got stuck on a broom handle.
  • armo, on 10/26/2007, -0/+3Just timed mine and it took 2 seconds...
  • griz, on 10/26/2007, -0/+3You mean the submitter. The Article is clearly written.
  • Firehed, on 10/26/2007, -0/+3Anything blends with a sufficiently large blender. Now can we drop this meme already?
  • MacEnvy, on 10/27/2007, -0/+3From what I can find, about 4 flops per clock cycle per core. So a new Core2 Extreme E6850 at 3 GHz should put out about 24 gigaflops (4 flops x 2 cores x 3 billion cycles=.024 teraflops).

    Does this sound right, anyone?
  • badassninja, on 10/26/2007, -0/+2... bought by the U.S. governement for wiretaps and internet taps the next day.
  • floejoe, on 10/27/2007, -1/+3The singularity is near(er).
  • Error601, on 10/26/2007, -0/+2It's one of those new accelerating performance computers.
  • frostbyt, on 10/27/2007, -5/+7Now we have a computer that can run Visa.
  • alciadanet, on 10/26/2007, -1/+3That's the time it needs to boot the system to full speed.
  • inactive, on 10/27/2007, -0/+2Seriously. The last thing any guy want is that his dick to be associated with the word Flop.
  • datastorageguy, on 10/27/2007, -1/+3Now if it could only run American Express I would be impressed.
  • theOster, on 10/26/2007, -0/+2nm i see araxen did it
  • OneLess, on 10/28/2007, -0/+2Quoth Wikipedia: "Alternatively, the singular FLOP (or flop) is used as an abbreviation for "FLoating-point OPeration", and a flop count is a count of these operations (e.g., required by a given algorithm or computer program). In this context, "flops" is simply the plural rather than a rate."

    Therefore, the usage in the article title could be taken to mean 839 tera(floating point operation)s per second. Gotta love people taking any opportunity they can to bash others and inflate their egos, though. Calm the hell down.
  • theOster, on 10/27/2007, -2/+4can't believe there are no beowolf cluster jokes...oh wait, this is digg, not /.
  • arjie, on 10/26/2007, -0/+2I read that it runs a Unix System V like OS.
  • thomashauk, on 10/27/2007, -0/+2Umm given a space shuttle runs on 1970's tech...
  • Hickeroar, on 11/01/2007, -1/+3To clarify for those who are idiots: A flop is a calculation per second. a teraflop is a trillion calculations per second. When you say "teraflops per second" that's like saying trillions of operations per second per second.....which doesn't make a bit of sense.
  • KMartSheriff, on 10/26/2007, -0/+2Forgive my lack of knowledge, but how many flops/s does say a new Intel Core2Duo put out?
  • slayerab, on 10/26/2007, -0/+2Eventually...
  • thomashauk, on 10/27/2007, -0/+2It does.. it means its accelerating...
  • cawpin, on 10/26/2007, -0/+2To really get the effect of that you just need to imagine Timmahhhhhh from Southpark saying it. Flopphhhhhhh.
  • cawpin, on 10/27/2007, -1/+3"anything useful to say"..."wan't"

    You are no longer allowed to call anybody lame.
  • uberlaff, on 10/26/2007, -0/+2Sooo... What's in it? x86 Cluster (Intel or AMD), IBM processors (doubt it), or an NEC processor? Interesting but really not much info there...
  • dbalaski, on 10/26/2007, -0/+2you mean that the meantime to crashing is faster ?
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