Top 500 Supercomputers Ranked

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?"

Comments

isn't the answer obvious?

[sweeney37]

I wonder how many teraflops Deep Thought could have done?

42.

Mike

Sigh

[Qweezle]

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

Apple Macs

[rebeka thomas]

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

Re:Apple Macs

[stoolpigeon]

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.

Not hosted on one...

[Anonymous Coward]

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

How dare you!

[JVert]

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

Re:They would go back in time

[infinite9]

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

Alternate site

[Dynamoo]

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".

I must be looking at too many porn/warez sites

[zapp]

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

The answer to Deep Thoughts speed!

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

I need a sticker...

[EverDense]

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.

Re:Tflops/s

[TeknoHog]

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.

SETI@HOME is actually #2, with 27TFLOPS

[billstewart]

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.