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Inside The World's Most Advanced Computer

Posted by timothy on from the preview-of-2026-ipaq dept.

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."

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  1. beats this by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    beats my laptop by far

  2. mod parent up!!!!!!!!!111 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    frist post

    i luv cowboyneal

    U R HOT

  3. You know what i think? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Rockets Rock

  4. huh? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Just came acroos an informational page

    Really, stuff like this just makes Slashdot look dumb. I mean dumber.

  5. Dammmmmm you some fast mudda fukas by perthstyle · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ..first thing I thought of was the old "imagine a Beo.." joke (yep, that old chestnut). Oh well.

  6. Re:Why? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "Hello, my name is MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM, and I have a moldy cock superglued to my tongue. This is why I am such a whiney idiot."

  7. Just came "ACROOS"? by reynolds_john · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You don't say.

  8. Dammit! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Missed fr0st pist while receiving oral pleasure from the mothers of all CLITs.

  9. Ahh.. by KarmaBitch · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    But, can it figure out why Cowboy Neal always wins the polls? Hmm... Ya know... Some things are probably best left unsolved.

  10. Re:The Birth of the CUNT! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I love nice wide cunts.

  11. Re:You AC's have no hope of winning. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You're my only hope.
  12. Re:We already know the answer by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    42

    No, the answer is not 42. The question is, "Is saphena a moron for repeating idiotic jokes?" and the correct answer is "Yes".

  13. Sad news - Stephen King, dead at 54 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    www.stephenking.com

    1. Re:Sad news - Stephen King, dead at 54 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Wow ... you knew it would have to be true one day :-(

      Truly an american icon.

    2. Re:Sad news - Stephen King, dead at 54 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Can't see any news of this anywhere...I hope it's not true...his books are amazing. If it's not true you are a sick fuck

    3. Re:Sad news - Stephen King, dead at 54 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      He's a sick fuck. It can't be true. Nothing on his site, nothing in Google, nothing nowhere. If it turns out to be true, I think I know the directions to a neat little place in Maine, out in the woods, just past an old graveyard for pets. HE MUST FINISH THE DARK TOWER!!!

  14. HAHAHA by autopr0n · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It's funny because windows is slow!

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    autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
  15. Mirror by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    here
    -F1F2F3

  16. The real advance is... by CHUD-Wretch · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    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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    "Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them."
  17. Re:I'm in luck. by ObitMan · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    thanks for the link bro, you rule!
    somebody mod this fuckin troll up!!

    --
    Who run Barter Town?
  18. super? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    They don't seem so super after being /.'ed