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- McMultiverse, on 10/12/2007, -3/+39From the article: "All we did was paint these bitchin' flames on the side of the cabinet, and the supercomputer went twice as fast!"
- nmckinlay, on 10/12/2007, -1/+21Finally, a computer that will run Vista the way it was designed to run!
- Cougaboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+161/10 the speed, but half the price...
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16And the scary thing is? It ordered the pieces itself.
Bwahaha - cranium, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12Great. I'll throw a few more bits on the encryption key.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Old Dirty doesn't understand about Sarcasm apparently.
- yaosio, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13Still only 1/10 the speed of the Playstation 3.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+13I thought you were joking, but they really did say that in the article!!
(Maybe this will convince some people to RTFA instead of just commenting based on the content of the Digg headline) - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12What have 54 teraflop Cray XT3 supercomputers ever done for ME?
- wistar, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12Throw one out of an airplane.
- daldredge, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9why?
- daldredge, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Because we know nothing computer related every comes out of DoD research...
- nodong, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9It allowed the government to predict hurricane patterns and save thousands of lives.... Oh, no, they didn't. I guess they used it instead to develop more powerful secret deathrays.
- newton64, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I was hoping this would be about the Atari Jaguar. :(
...although doubling zero still gives you zero. - TruthElixirX, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4It will run HL2, but I don't know if it will be able to run Crysis.
- olddirtycr, on 10/12/2007, -4/+8uhh benloven it says it right in the article, RTFA next time.
- Wootery, on 10/12/2007, -1/+41/20th would be more accurate.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/5287254.stm - nmckinlay, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4And on a side note, how come I no longer need to enter random chars to convince digg I'm a human?
- WaterDragon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4We don't need such supercomputers.
We already know the answer is forty two! - BlackCow, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Ohhh man I would love to run HL2 on that baby *touches self* ohh yea
- PaulOwen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@Rayonic
I'll bet you're thinking that the "Top 500" actually mean the Top 500 fastest supercomputers?
If you're unfamiliar with supercomputer projects, you might think that all supercomputers are built the same. That's the assumption of the Top 500 list, and it fits the US purpose of claiming dominance very well, because almost all of the supercomputers in the US are built with general purpose leased usage in mind (which also helps to get them on the Top 500 list, but that's another story).
Supercomputer projects actually fall into two usage categories - general use (where the services of the processor are leased on a time-sharing basis) and specific purpose, where the computer is built for a specific computing task, after which task the computer will be dismantled.
All of the supercomputers on the Top 500 list are for general purpose computing, and they run the general purpose LINPACK set of libraries. In the real world there are some tasks that require more specialized hardware and although that means they can't run LINPACK, they are still, nonetheless, much much faster than the Top 500 list.
The question should perhaps be not if I'm a Japanophile, but more
"What makes you so attached to the increasingly meaningless Top 500 List?"
(Perhaps it's the US-centric "build it first, find a use later" nature of lesser general purpose systems?) - wistar, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Actually, on this machine it is UNICOS/lc a two piece lashup designed for scaling that has a microkernel called Catamount and Linux on the service PE (processing elements).
- Rayonic, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3@PaulOwen :
You've made two posts about the MDGRAPE-3 in this thread. In the lower one, you complained that the Top500 supercomputer list is biased against non-U.S. machines.
What drives you to make such claims? Are you that much of a Japanophile?
No, the Top500 project is not biased. Their benchmarking procedures are clearly laid out, and the MDGRAPE-3 simply isn't general-purpose enough to qualify. Should they switch to a benchmark specifically tailored to one supercomputer's strong points? It'd make the list meaningless. It's easy to get super fast computations if you trim down the problem set. (3d graphics cards are a good example of this.) - dbalaski, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Off Topic ---
I'm actually waiting to see a computer using the CELL processor(s) -- not just PS3 ...
I think it would interesting if they overcome some of the programming challenges and harness that "theoretical horsepower" in that chip... - SirGrant, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The folding@home and BOINC distributed computing projects both outstrip this.
Folding:http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=osstats is at 162 Tflops
and
Boinc:http://www.boincstats.com/stats/project_graph.php?pr=bo is at 400 Tflops - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2W.O.P.R.?
- ssulistyo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This puts it at #4 of the Top 500 Supercomputers:
http://www.top500.org/list/2006/06/100 - peregrine, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I'm interested in the Ray Tracing studies by DreamWorks and weather or not DreamWorks is going to release this information to all current rendering software. Such as MentalRay,Sunflow, Yafray etc etc.
Cause information like that could really help companies with big pocketbooks like AutoDesk(Maya, 3D Studio Max) and hurt the open source companies without the big pocketbooks like Blender( http://www.blender3d.org ).
FOSS. - DeusMachinae, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I bet NSA is all over this.
- dbalaski, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'll bet the NSA has something better -- they are not waving flags and press releases about it -- it would be a really stupid thing if they did.
Can you imagine the NSA saying:
Hey world -- we have the fastest computer. It achieves Petaflop speeds -- man can it pump the data... Opps -- we shouldn't have told you that..... - karmakanic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Does anyone know what the underlying PE topology and interconnect technology are?
Having lots of processors is all well and good - we could have built this thing from 8080's back in the 70's. But they don't do you much good if the ratio of compute power to data-set size is out of whack, or moving data from one PE to another takes more time than the actual computations. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1That applies more to computer games than Vista, actually. How many games released a whole year ago can be run with all settings maxed out even on today's most powerful hardware? My guess is not all of them.
- WaterDragon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@nmckinlay
"And on a side note, how come I no longer need to enter random chars to convince digg I'm a human?"
So....what you are telling us is that you may not be human. I had suspected as much!
Alt response: Shhhhh! Don't remind them, or they'll bring back that dreaded 'capitcha' thing! - Goosemaster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1heh..so true
- PaulOwen, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Oh, and in case you were wondering, the RIKEN labs dominance in this area is now well documented, and MDGrape-3 is recognized (at SC2003 which was held in Arizona (in America, yes)) as _70 times faster_ than Blue Gene/L.
http://www.petaflop.info/
http://www.sc-conference.org/sc2003/paperpdfs/pap168.pdf
http://www.informationweek.com/industries/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=EGTM31Y33J1W4QSNDLPSKHSCJUNN2JVN?articleID=22100641&pgno=2
So please don't tell me it's wrong just because you don't like it. - squenix1221, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1System X- Supercomputer built out of 1,100 Powermac G5s running at 12.25 teraflops
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_X_%28computing%29 - tomvendetta, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1and apparently you dont understand 'about' grammar ;p
jay kay. - PaulOwen, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2That list is actually inaccurate, with a heavy bias towards US-built general purpose supercomputers. For example the RIKEN MDGRAPE-3 supercomputer is three times faster than even the Blue Gene/L supercomputer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDGrape-3
And it doesn't even have flame decals. - karmakanic, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1It's probably used for Military Intelligence. Let's let George Carlin ponder that one for a bit.
- nerd05, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3Military intelligence.
Sounds kind of like oxymoron to me. - wistar, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1I think its COS (Cray OS) but I have read that COS may now be a variant of SuSE.
- trunkster, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Wow the fastest computer in the world is used for National Defense. Don't even get me started on that..
- PaulOwen, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2Petaflop computer in Japan is 3x faster than the US Blue Gene/L:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDGrape-3 - Fhqwhgadss, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0@nodong
So THAT must be why the government did such a wonderful job during the 2005 hurricane season!
BTW: The deathrays aren't so secret, but here in the real world we call them nukes. - godsfshrmn, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0This place is 20 minutes from my house. I would love to see this in person! It would be nice to rig up a few processors for graphics and play a fps game like UT
- zodiac101, on 10/12/2007, -5/+0The PS3 Comparisan has already been done by Cougaboy.
- ziki, on 10/12/2007, -8/+2i hope its running linux
- kevogod, on 10/12/2007, -6/+0It looks like they have finally caught up to PS3's specs.
- wagthesam, on 10/12/2007, -11/+3from the article: this thing was so sexy I just had to take it for a ride. Afterwards I sodomized it up the disc drive while screeming its name. Wow does this thing go!
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