zdnetasia.com — Sun Microsystems on Monday revealed the Constellation System, a high-performance computing platform that company executives claim will vault the company back into the top ranks of supercomputer manufacturers.
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jonathono2000Jun 28, 2007
Oh the irony.
mrassmanJun 28, 2007
Well those are two different situations. The PCs aren't "faster" than what you want because we're just pushing the limits of what can be mass-produced cheaply to consumers.. it's actually still leading Moore's law, so nothing is slowing down.As for the internet connection speed.. that's just due to lack of government initiative, and the monopolized telecom industry in general. It could really all change with a government that paid more attention to these matters. Here's hoping for 2009.
noseemeJun 28, 2007
Yet another digger that doesn't seem to know how Java and the JRE work...
alpha754293Jun 29, 2007
Simply put: 2 PFLOPS = the world's fastest supercomputer. :oD (a little less than 10 times faster than the current fastest supercomputer)
Closed AccountJun 29, 2007
Today's graphics do just that.. graphics: they have great GFLOPS numbers (350 on NVIDIA's G80 ) due to the large amount of ALU space working in parallel.Data that passes gfx processors is rarely reused and it represented in many pixels; this leads to massively parallel opportunities like having a lot of simple (read FAST) units for computation (float and integer, hell both!)Since data is not reused often, fat ass pipelines can be created with no worries with branches. The last thing I can remember is that gfx (and scientific code) has few data dependencies which again leads to fast chips with fat pipes. Contrary to gfx, general code is all the opposite to this: lots of code jumping, code and data reuse, and not to fail to mention I/O ( It doesn't belong here really except in respect of how the CPU responds to a call ).Moore's law HAS slowed, took a right hand turn years ago. The "power wall" stops _single_ CPUs from getting any faster/watt and the "memory wall" has also crippled the computation potential due to such slow access.well is this long enough? should I go on?