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Top 500 Supercomputers Ranked

Posted by simoniker on from the my-zx-80-came-in-501st dept.

Shadow Wrought writes "The Register is reporting on (alternate ZDNet article) the latest list of the top 500 supercomputers in the world. Top of the list is the Earth Simulator Center in Yokohama, Japan, with a benchmark performance of 35.86 Tflop/s. HP and IBM claim 159 and 158 of the systems respectively. I wonder how many teraflops Deep Thought could have done?"

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  1. isn't the answer obvious? by sweeney37 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I wonder how many teraflops Deep Thought could have done?

    42.

    Mike

  2. atari by chimpo13 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Where does the Atari 2600 rank? First or second?

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    1. Re:atari by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      I want a cluster of 2600's running a high-res version of ET.

  3. Sigh by Qweezle · · Score: 5, Funny

    I guess for the third straight year my ultrafast 17 kiloflop TI-83 calculator didn't make the list... :sigh:

  4. Apple Macs by rebeka+thomas · · Score: 4, Funny

    I wonder when the first mac user will claim a G5 should be on the list Typical bigoted zealots.

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    1. Re:Apple Macs by stoolpigeon · · Score: 4, Funny

      First- here is the answer.

      second: being modded down is the confirmation of your post- if they hadn't you would have been wrong. It was worth it. If I hadn't just burned my last point i'd have modded you back up.

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    2. Re:Apple Macs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Typical bigoted zealots.

      Kindly look in the mirror, sir.

  5. Not hosted on one... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    My thinking is that the list of top 500 supercomputers isn't hosted on such a machine...

  6. How dare you! by JVert · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm posting from a duron right now you insensitive clod!

  7. Deep Thought by nother_nix_hacker · · Score: 3, Funny

    I wonder how many teraflops Deep Thought could have done?"

    Who cares, I wonder what the fps in quake 3 would be! :)

    1. Re:Deep Thought by gnovos · · Score: 3, Funny

      I wonder how many teraflops Deep Thought could have done?"

      Who cares, I wonder what the fps in quake 3 would be! :)

      You wouldn't like the result...

      Deep thought, I want to play qua....

      Done! You would have gotten 32 frags and your friend would have gotten 38. You would lose. Would you like to play again? No, don't answer that, I already know. DONE! This time you would have beaten your friend by 4 frags.

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  8. Imagine a beow. . . . by romec · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well someone was going to say it. . .
    I think that they should add their web server as an honorable mention because I can still connect to it (it took a while) despite the /. effect

  9. Re:They would go back in time by infinite9 · · Score: 5, Funny

    What if there were a beowulf cluster of the top 500 supercomputers?
    You'd still be modded down.

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  10. Alternate site by Dynamoo · · Score: 4, Funny
    A similar presentation of the data can be found here cuz the main one has just gotten Slashdotted.

    Never mind Teraflops, we should have a measure of web server load called "Slashdots".

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  11. I just bought a Macintosh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Why isn't it listed as a supercomputer? Jobs lied to me!

  12. I must be looking at too many porn/warez sites by zapp · · Score: 4, Funny

    Anyone else get the instant urge to close the window (thinking it was a popup) when they saw the host www.top500.org?

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  13. My Rig by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Sheesh, I wonder why my rig didn't make it into the top 500 either?

    I've spend a lot on a window, neon lights, fancy cooling systems, and STICKERS.. so many that I should rank atleast 354 out of 500!! It even sounds fast from all the chassis fans!

    Maybe I need to go for the rear mounted spoiler to break onto the list??

  14. The answer to Deep Thoughts speed! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Given:
    Deep Thought spent 6,500,000 yrs designing the earth, which then failed to produce the desired results. ( Admittedly not due to design flaws but still a failure. )

    Conclusion:
    1.53846153e-6 Terra Flops per Year.

  15. Re:Nebraska doesn't suck by TheViffer · · Score: 1, Funny

    No .. generally it blows, it is Iowa that sucks.

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  16. I need a sticker... by EverDense · · Score: 4, Funny

    I need a sticker for my PC case that says "My OTHER computer is the Earth Simulator".
    Once I've got that I'll be beating the girls off with a stick.
    As apposed to my current "beating off" activities.

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    1. Re:I need a sticker... by sean23007 · · Score: 2, Funny

      I sincerely hope the guys in Japan put a sticker on the side of the Earth Simulator that says "My other computer is also the Earth Simulator". Jerks.

      (Hitchhikers Guide)

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    2. Re:I need a sticker... by Andrewkov · · Score: 2, Funny

      Nah, it probably says "Powered by Honda" followed by a VTEC sticker.

  17. Deep thoughts... by gnovos · · Score: 2, Funny

    I wonder what exactly defines a "supercomputer". Wouldn't SETI@Home count? Or in a more abstract sense, all of Slashdot... Except, I suppose, where normal supercomputers are designed to model the destruction of the universe, the "Slashdot machine" is designed to cause it.

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  18. Re:American Dominance in Supercomputers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Including being humble.

  19. Re:Tflops/s by TeknoHog · · Score: 4, Funny
    A trillion floating point operations per second per second?

    It's called hardware acceleration.

    Or perhaps it's the rate at which computers need to speed up constantly in order to run Office.

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  20. SETI@HOME is actually #2, with 27TFLOPS by billstewart · · Score: 4, Funny
    The second-fastest supercomputer in the world is SETI@HOME, which averages about 27 TFLOPS these days. That's still slower than Japan's Earth Simulator, which is 35 TFLOPS, but it's twice as fast as the Weapons Of Mass Destruction Labs's fastest machine (13.8 TFLOPS), which is about double the speed of Another Weapons of Mass Desctuction Lab's Evil Linux Cluster. So
    1. The World's Fastest Computer is trying to figure out this planet,
    2. The World's Second-Fastest Computer is a volunteer effort to figure out if anybody's on other planets, cure cancer, and do other good things on this planet, and
    3. The Next Fastest Four Computers are trying to figure out how to blow up this planet.
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