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Nerd Vacation to the Earth Simulator
eecue writes "Earlier this year I went on vacation to japan. At the end of my trip I was lucky enough to receive a tour of the Earth Simulator, which is the world's fastest super computer. I took pictures and wrote about it."
Well that would, of course, depend on how much bandwith is running to said server now wouldn't it? =)
Found some nice info (good old google) on said Supercomputer though since the sites linked article didn't have much.
A Time Article on The Earth Simulator
Top 500 page on Earth Simulator
NEC page on the Earth Simulator
Google Translated Powerpoint presentation on the Earth Simulator
A snippet(s) of info:
"Based on the NEC SX architecture, 640 nodes, each node with 8 vector processors (8 Gflop/s peak per processor), 2 ns cycle time, 16GB shared memory. Total of 5120 total processors, 40 TFlop/s peak, and 10 TB memory. "
"Earth Simulator's processors are one-chip LSIs fabricated with 0.15 micron CMOS process and copper wiring. Highly optimized software and high-speed networks that pump massive amounts of data through 7.8TB/s bandwidth connecting the 640 processing nodes are key to the amazing efficiency of Earth Simulator."