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Top 500 Supercomputer List Released

Posted by Hemos on from the ibm-moves-ahead dept.

sundling writes "The heavily anticipated Top 500 Supercomputer list has been released. There is a Sevenfold increase in AMD Opteron processors on the list. Two sections of an IBM prototype took spots in the top 10 and the famous Apple cluster didn't make the list, because it was out of service for hardware upgrades. When complete, the new IBM cluster is sure to take the top spot from the Earth Simulator."

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  1. Why the fuss about Earth Simulator? by Moblaster · · Score: 5, Funny

    IBM's new supercomputer will calculate "42" before the Japanese. America can feel good again.

  2. Evidently.... by dkone · · Score: 5, Funny

    they are not running their site on one of the top 500.

  3. How do they measure? by -noefordeg- · · Score: 5, Funny

    So how do they measure?

    The link didn't work right now so I'll make a guess...

    Test must at least include Q3, UT-2004 and 3DMark03, but since these are pretty powerful computers I guess they also use some sort of advanced custom built MineSweeper with like 10.000x10.000 grid playing field or something wild crazy stuff like that.
    Maybe 400+ pages Word documents?
    Final test is probably Halo for pc. Any fps score above 20 will result in a spot > 100 on the list.