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World's Fastest Supercomputer To Be Built At ORNL

Posted by timothy on from the right-near-dollywood dept.

Homey R writes "As I'll be joining the staff there in a few months, I'm very excited to see that Oak Ridge National Lab has won a competition within the DOE's Office of Science to build the world's fastest supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Lab in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. It will be based on the promising Cray X1 vector architecture. Unlike many of the other DOE machines that have at some point occupied #1 on the Top 500 supercomputer list, this machine will be dedicated exclusively to non-classified scientific research (i.e., not bombs)." Cowards Anonymous adds that the system "will be funded over two years by federal grants totaling $50 million. The project involves private companies like Cray, IBM, and SGI, and when complete it will be capable of sustaining 50 trillion calculations per second."

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  1. Wow... by nother_nix_hacker · · Score: 3, Funny
    The project involves private companies like Cray, IBM, and SGI, and when complete it will be capable of sustaining 50 trillion calculations per second."
    Outlook with no slowdown!
    1. Re:Wow... by FenwayFrank · · Score: 5, Funny

      It's so fast, the blue screen shifts to red!

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

      Actually it went to plaid

  2. Re:50 trillion by Roger+Keith+Barrett · · Score: 2, Funny

    Build me a real time simulation of Morgan Webb PLEASE!

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  3. Hmm by LaserLyte · · Score: 5, Funny

    > ...capable of sustaining 50 trillion calculations per second.

    Hmm...I wonder if I could borrow it for a few days to give my dnet stats a boost :D

    1. Re:Hmm by scotch · · Score: 2, Funny
      Will you be here all week?

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  4. Shamelessly plagerized by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Wow, 50 trillion calculations per second. Thats almost fast enough to finish an infinite loop in under ten hours.

  5. It must be said: by Recoil_42 · · Score: 0, Funny

    Imagine a beowulf cluster of those.

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    1. Re:It must be said: by stephenisu · · Score: 2, Funny

      Wow, that's the first Beowulf cluster comment I would mod as interesting.

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  6. Doom III by MrRuslan · · Score: 4, Funny

    at an Impresive 67fps on this baby...

  7. But the computer's record will be short-lived... by BrentRJones · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...because a day later Palm users will massively interconnect to form the World Fastest Clustered Computer Environment. The OS? Linux, of course. .}

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  8. It's Longhorn compatible then ? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny


    or it certainly seems like it (reading the specs of the thing)

  9. Re:3D torus topology by PetoskeyGuy · · Score: 2, Funny

    So each node is directly connected to six ajacent nodes.

    Excellent. We can finally solve the Optimal Dungeon Theorem on hex tile games.

  10. Actually, after auditing, it looks like you owe us by pastafazou · · Score: 2, Funny
    As a direct percentage of total taxpayers, your time would be equal to under one second. However, when calculated as a percentage of your tax contributions in relation to all tax revenues collected, it looks like you still owe us 23 days, 17 hours, and 54 minutes of processing time on your computer. You can drop your computer off at the closest IRS office to you.
    Thank you for your understanding in this matter,

    Your friendly neighbourhood IRS agent.