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Inside The World's Most Advanced Computer
Junky191 writes: "Just came across an informational page for the Earth Simulator computer, which provides nice graphics of the layout of the machine and its support structure, as well as details about exactly what types of problems it solves. Fascinating for the engineering problems tackled- how would you organize a 5,120 processor system capable of 40Tflops, and of course don't forget about the 10TB of shared memory." Take note -- donour writes: "well, the new list of supercomputer rankings is up today. I have to say that the Earth Simulator is quite impressive, from both a performance and architectural standpoint."
You don't say.
But, can it figure out why Cowboy Neal always wins the polls? Hmm... Ya know... Some things are probably best left unsolved.
It's funny because windows is slow!
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
the big red eyeballs on the cabinets.
As long as we can keep making such strides in Red Eyeball technology, HAL can't be very far off.
No, really...there is a new lead dog...
The amazing "Q" (built by CompaQ, go figure)
ASCI Q, named to follow LANL's tradition of alphabeticalnames for computers, will have 11,968 processors, 12terabytes of memory and 600 terabytes of disk storage. It willbe about two and one-half times as powerful as today's mostpowerful supercomputer, ASCI White at Lawrence LivermoreNational Laboratory in Livermore, California. It wouldrequire approximately 20,000 of today's state-of-the-art PCs,which are capable of about 1.5 gigaOPS, working veryclosely together to match the peak performance of ASCI Q.
or read more here/a?
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