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- ZeroOrDie, on 06/09/2008, -8/+207Maybe running Crysis on high IS possible...
- drake77, on 06/09/2008, -20/+185People are worried that the United States isn't "keeping up" anymore. We no longer have the tallest building in the world, or the largest shopping mall.
Those are twentieth century status symbols and are no longer relevant.
Some of today's status symbols include super computers and space programs, both of which we have the best of. - mark076h, on 06/09/2008, -2/+106this part from the article is really fascinating "To put the performance of the machine in perspective, Thomas P. D’Agostino, the administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration, said that if all six billion people on earth used hand calculators and performed calculations 24 hours a day and seven days a week, it would take them 46 years to do what the Roadrunner can in one day."
- thebassmaster, on 06/09/2008, -1/+78no. nothing can run crysis.
- Omek, on 06/08/2008, -14/+88Skynet is on the rise.
- Comp1demon, on 06/09/2008, -11/+72"Shall we Play a Game?"
Sure how about thermoglobalnuclearwar
"How about a nice Game of Chess?"
not now how about thermoglobalnuclearwar
"Fine, but perhaps you prefer Gran theft Auto 4?" - Berserk87, on 06/09/2008, -12/+71Crysis jokes are gay.
- Elamen, on 06/09/2008, -4/+61"...assembled from components originally designed for video game machines..."
I'm guessing it could run crysis. - inactive, on 06/09/2008, -21/+77Classical American dick-waving. Way to go.
- sockpuppets, on 06/09/2008, -3/+56It dreams about GTA 4 when they shut it off at night.
- thickdrummer, on 06/09/2008, -2/+41A comma after 'Connor' would have really helped. For a second I wondered why I was calling her "Military Supercomputer Sets Record" as thats not really offensive. If I was going to call her anything I would just call her a psychotic bitch.
- jhshukla, on 06/09/2008, -0/+35on high, anything is possible.
- sockpuppets, on 06/09/2008, -5/+39except the chip they're using is from the PS3.
- sleepyjjk, on 06/09/2008, -2/+34"It will be used principally to solve classified military problems to ensure that the nation’s stockpile of nuclear weapons will continue to work correctly as they age. The Roadrunner will simulate the behavior of the weapons in the first fraction of a second during an explosion."
Man, I really hope we never need to use nuclear weapons.
It's sad how so much technology and so much manpower is used for such destructive purposes.
However, I guess this machine will also be used for other things too, "Roadrunner have the potential to fundamentally alter science and engineering, supercomputer experts say. Researchers can ask questions and receive answers virtually interactively and can perform experiments that would previously have been impractical."
Though, I wonder what the government finds more important. Making sure we can abolish the enemy if needed or answering important questions about our world. The latter sounds more appealing to me. - Abomonog, on 06/09/2008, -0/+32Well I once knew a girl that could qualify as a large hardon collider.
She was also a crisis on high. - darthbob, on 06/09/2008, -1/+32No *****; what has a mall done for me lately?
- castleking, on 06/09/2008, -5/+35It was jointly developed by Sony, Toshiba, and IBM. I'm willing to bet that Toshiba and Sony's development part was mostly monetary, and most of the actual development occurred within IBM (American company).
- 0tis, on 06/09/2008, -1/+30Mine can...
- OpCzar, on 06/09/2008, -16/+43"Some of today's status symbols include super computers and space programs, both of which we have the best of."
Except that the cell processor is Japanese... - Mohan, on 06/09/2008, -0/+26Then, just as the frightened technicians felt they could hold their breath no longer, there was a sudden springing to life of the teletype attached to that portion of Roadrunner. Five words were printed: INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR MEANINGFUL ANSWER.
- theboozer, on 06/09/2008, -2/+27"Bzzzt..... the answer is 42..... bzzzt"
- fenris6644, on 06/09/2008, -1/+25"...improving a thousandfold in processing power in 11 years."
Nice job, fellas. - dahuf, on 06/09/2008, -5/+26Except that the core of the Cell is the PowerPC architecture, designed by who? Oh yea IBM. Sure a collaboration between Toshiba, Sony and IBM, but i doubt it's Japanese (Nor American for that matter). Oh right, except for the fact that it was conceived and designed in the good old heartland of Texas. So yea... Research helps prevent ignorance...
- gfail, on 06/09/2008, -0/+21the only way to win is not to play
- kravex, on 06/09/2008, -1/+22Skynet is real:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7419751.stm - darienphoenix, on 06/09/2008, -6/+26And yet it still can't recognise a face as well as my 4 year old cousin.
- B3000, on 06/09/2008, -1/+19*global thermonuclear war
- cjh24, on 06/09/2008, -0/+16I think it's scarier that it dreams about the moment a nuke goes off
- McMaster88, on 06/09/2008, -0/+15Gave you a parking ticket because you parked in an unmarked "Employee Parking" space.
- Lunarbunny, on 06/09/2008, -1/+15I thought Cell was created for high-bandwidth supercomputing in the first place and Sony co-opted it for the PS3.
- plinstrot, on 06/09/2008, -2/+16A colon after "Connor" would have saved me a few seconds of confusion, but thanks for the article.
- cubbiesx, on 06/09/2008, -0/+14N-bombs are gay.
- valkyries, on 06/09/2008, -3/+15yeah IBM still did most of the work.
- AzureRise, on 06/09/2008, -0/+12I watched. I really, really watched.
- guardsman85, on 06/09/2008, -0/+12Tip-top nukes on the one hand, and global warming on the other...man, this machine has the potential to really piss off a lot of people!
- PabloIV, on 06/09/2008, -7/+18Wasn't this the premise for half of the first season of the Sarah Connor Chronicles?
Not... that... I watched or anything - S1ngular1ty1, on 06/09/2008, -1/+12The cell processor is a number crunching beast. That is why it is being used for these types of problems. You can't use it in a conventional PC though. That is why they had to use regular CPUs along with the cell processor. The cell processor doesn't lend itself well to the tasks you expect a CPU to be able to do. But if all you want is number crunching, and fast, then the cell is what you want.
- solidus636, on 06/09/2008, -0/+10Holy *****.
- 0tis, on 06/09/2008, -4/+14I'm with Weejay here. Status symbols? Who gives a ***** about how tall your buildings are? We care what you DO.
(Note: I'm not criticising what America does, that's for another discussion. Every country in the world does this, even mine)
Remember how sports cars = penis extensions? Yeah. Now take another look at your skyscrapers. - killerbob2323, on 06/09/2008, -2/+12There is no way its faster then my Pentium 4 running at 2Ghz.
- nstanosheck, on 06/09/2008, -0/+10No Lenovo bought rights to their home PC division is all.
- cjh24, on 06/09/2008, -8/+1713,000 PS3 GPUs (?)
- sanman, on 06/09/2008, -1/+10So the gigaflop barrier was broken 22 yrs ago
And the teraflop barrier was broken 11 yrs ago
So does that mean the Exaflop barrier will be broken in 5 yrs?
And then the Zettaflop barrier will be broken a couple of yrs later?
What happens when these 1000x barriers start falling every month?
Aren't we going to run out of Greek prefixes? - keeperofkeys, on 06/09/2008, -0/+9Is no-one else worried that they're putting something called "The Roadrunner" in charge of a stockpile of nukes? I have a mental picture of that bloody bird zooming ahead of a shockwave saying "meep meep", while Wile E. Coyote gets blown to smithereens (along with half the human race)
- gregatron, on 06/09/2008, -9/+18It runs Crysis on Ultra at a solid 25 fps.
- drgreenberg, on 06/09/2008, -1/+10IBM is in 170 countries, but the headquarters are still in the US (Armonk, NY). Much of the semiconductor R&D and processor design is done in the US as well (in NY, VT, TX and MN), although there is a great deal of contribution from the international facilities.
- inactive, on 06/09/2008, -0/+8Where are you going with this Joshua?
- Lockhart, on 06/09/2008, -0/+8This can run 10 copies of Crysis on high settings while downloading the whole internetz and still not lag.
- digg1520, on 06/09/2008, -0/+8Good point actually, don't understand why you're getting dugg down. You can't solve tough AI problems by throwing hardware at them. Even if you have 1000s of these computers there are many tasks that a dumb human can do better.
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