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Virginia Tech Supercomputer Up To 12.25 Teraflops

Posted by timothy on from the changing-blacksburg's-climate dept.

gonknet writes "According to CNET news and various other news outlets, the 1150-node Hokie supercomputer rebuilt with new 2.3 GHz Xserves now runs at 12.25 Teraflops. The computer, the fastest computer owned by an academic institution, should still be in the top 5 when the new rankings come out in November."

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  1. hrm by gutterandthestars · · Score: 5, Funny

    6.40tflops should be enough for anybody

    1. Re:hrm by hackstraw · · Score: 3, Funny

      Hans Moravec's book "Robot" suggests that 100 teraflops is about the level required for human intelligence.

      Yeah. I've been waiting for years for those dumbasses to make a computer that can outperform my ability to perform 100 trillion double precision floating point operations a second flawlessly.

    2. Re:hrm by Randy+Wang · · Score: 5, Funny

      I, for one, welcome our new Beowulf overlord...

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      --- Egads, I glow in the dark!
  2. and yet... by BobWeiner · · Score: 3, Funny
    ...it still doesn't come with a floppy disk drive.

    /sarcasm

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    The PC Weenies: 11 Years of Online Tech 'Too
  3. Thank you VT by Alcimedes · · Score: 4, Funny

    I have it on good insider knowledge, that this entire cluster is going to be put to the best possible usage.

    Not disease solving, not genetic mapping, not calculating weather patterns.

    No, what they're going to do is remaster the Original Star Wars series, right from the laser disc versions!!!!

    Imagine, a digitallly remastered bar scene where Han shoots first!!@$!@#!one!@

    /kidding

  4. Hm.. with this much compute power.. by elemur · · Score: 4, Funny

    If you add in VirtualPC... presumably the clustered version.. you should start to get to the level of compute power that was recommended by Microsoft for Longhorn... though it still wouldn't be the high end. Expect some sluggishness..

  5. Rankings by thopkins · · Score: 3, Funny

    should still be in the top 5 when the new rankings come out in November.

    Wow, ranked higher than the Virginia Tech football team this year.