looks like they've done did it, ya'll!
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http://www.lanl.gov/orgs/hpc/roadrunner/index.shtml In a test run on May 27, the Roadrunner supercomputer, built by IBM with funding from the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) for Los Alamos National Laboratory, achieved a long-sought supercomputing goal: performing more than a thousand trillion operations per second, or petaflop/s.
A “flops” is an acronym meaning floating-point operations per second. One petaflop/s is 1,000 trillion operations per second. To put this into perspective, if each of the 6 billion people on earth had a hand calculator and worked together on a calculation 24 hours per day, 365 days a year, it would take 46 years to do what Roadrunner would do in one day.
Roadrunner is the first supercomputer to use a hybrid processor architecture, which is based on both Opteron X64 processors from Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and the IBM Cell Broadband Engine™ (Cell BE) processing elements.
Roadrunner will be housed at NNSA’s Los Alamos National Laboratory. The laboratory worked collaboratively with IBM, the manufacturer, for six years to deliver a novel computer architecture that can meet the nation’s evolving national security needs. The result has redefined the frontier of supercomputing, not only by crossing the one petaflop threshold, but also by introducing a new paradigm for the future.
Roadrunner is also rated as very energy efficient (green) (performance/watt).
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syncronsays...Hook enough gaming consoles together, and you've got a supercomputer. Didn't the military build one using PS2s?
Arsenault185says...See the blog about it here
Arsenault185says...>> ^syncron:
Hook enough gaming consoles together, and you've got a supercomputer. Didn't the military build one using PS2s?
Hook enough Tandy 1000s together and you can get a super computer. Its just a question of how many. Around 2,052,000,000,000,000 is how many. Your welcome.
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lucky760says...Neat stuff.
Congrats on losing your "P" vairetube.
Hexsays...a bit old, they are talking about the ps3 not being released for a few months
moodoniasays...But does it play Crysis?
deathcowsays...I bet it has enough power to model simulated people playing simulated Crysis on simulated computers with simulated GeForce cards.
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