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SGI & NASA Build World's Fastest Supercomputer
GarethSwan writes "SGI and NASA have just rolled-out the new world number one fastest supercomputer. Its performance test (LINPACK) result of 42.7 teraflops easily outclasses the previous mark set by Japan's Earth Simulator of 35.86 teraflops AND that set by IBM's new BlueGene/L experiment of 36.01 teraflops. What's even more awesome is that each of the 20 512-processor systems run a single Linux image, AND Columbia was installed in only 15 weeks. Imagine having your own 20-machine cluster?"
Let's see them predict the weather.....
...when they hit the "TURBO" button on the front of the boxes they'll really scream.
I have one of those... in a spare room!
Who cares about a 20 system cluster, I want a one 512 processor machine!
or 20, I'm not that picky
Just what I need to model my next H-bom... uhh... umm.... I mean render my next feature film. I call it "Kaboom."
The World Serires outcome!
Call me and my voicemail! 914-713-6795. (wow, I have the balls to post my voip number on
I bet gentoo wouldn't be such a b**ch to get running with all of that compiling power behind it :)
...they were *almost* able to get Longhorn to boot.
If the same software is used, its not going to make weather predictions more accurate. Its just going to give them the wrong answer, faster.
SGI & NASA now have developed a computer that will be able to run Longhorn.
Yes! I listen to NYC Speedcore and do math at 3AM. I suggest you try it too.
...single node of these...
:-)
oh wait, sorry, Cray deja-vu
Seti@Home. They'll be in the Top 10 in no time!
Prof. Jack Dongarra of UTK is the keeper of the official list in the interim between the twice-yearly Top 500 lists:
http://www.netlib.org/benchmark/performance.pdf See page 54.
And here's the current top 20 as of 10/26/04...
Wow, I didn't know the NewAdvancedSearchAgent had such an interest or budget for super computing. I'd think they'd be able to afford their own web server though instead of being parked at domainspa.com and having to fill their entire page with advertisments.
Try NASA.GOV.
RAEM (redundant array of expensive machines) just doesn't ring right - to close to REAM.
This issue is a bit more complicated than you think.
Yes what is the point? We all know the resulting answer is going to be 42.
A Beowolf cluster of Beowolf clusters....
ARRRGGGHHHH PEOPLE'S HEADS ARE EXPLODING!!!
Now you know that there's some engineer with acces to this thing thinking how he can jump to the front of SETI@HOME.
..........FULL STOP.
Computer superclusters don't even have O-rings
so it's not water-cooled?
[didn't RTFA]
Seriously, am I on candid camera?
Emulating a Centris 650 running Mac OS X at 2.5 Ghz.
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They tried, but they ran out of blue.
It's a small world and it smells funny; I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money; Take back what I paid (SoM)
You'd think with all that super-computing power they'd be able to figure out the zipping JPEGs is retarted.
"Karma can only be portioned out by the cosmos." -Homer Simpson
Does it run CherryOS?
...rubbing his hands whilst sitting in a dark corner amongst an ever-dwindling pile of Microsoft-donated cash, salivating at this.
"512 processors, 20 machines, $699 per processor. All that intellectual property, yes! No free lunch no, Linux mine, MIIIINE, BWAAAAHAHAHAHA!!!"
*dials*
"Hello, NASA? About that $7,157,760 you owe me...
I'm sorry, where do you want me to jump?"
"Nine times out of ten, starting a fire is not the best way to solve the problem." - my wife
All those teraflops and still no aliens? How many freaking teraflops do we need? Come on, folks, I just want one goddamned spaceman!!
Maybe they want to run PearPC at a decent speed.
...oh never mind.
CBV@#$)(*?>M
free ipod and free gmail!
It was great. I needed to build the kernel so I typed
# make -j 10534 bzImag
and even before I could hit the e and enter, it was done.
I was gonna build X but on this box the possible outcomes of "build World" scared me!
"Its performance test (LINPACK) result of 42.7 teraflops easily outclasses the previous mark set by Japan's Earth Simulator of 35.86 teraflops"
Yes, but what is that in bogomips?
Well, I think I speak for all of us when I say: Thank &ran(diety;1,100) it isn't running windows.
Sig
Wow, I'm glad I'm not the one installing 10240 heatsinks..
> What will be in the atmosphere 24 hours from now?
Where?
> Everywhere.
And what sort of things were you interested in?
> Everything.
Mostly a bunch of airplanes and some water.
1. I bet CIA has something in order of 10-100x more powerfull, I mean if you can afford to wire up 5 full office floors of computers, say 20*512 * 5 per floor * 5 , thats a hell lot more. CIA can afford to spend 200m on it, and have 10 super clusters of 1000 tf each.
2. I bet the CIA also can change the weather, go read HARP etc... if the russians can do it in the 80s then the CIA can do anything.
Liberty freedom are no1, not dicks in suits.
I installed Windows XP* on my 1ghz p3** in just 2.5*** hours!
And they call it a super computer!
* Just kidding, SuSE 9.0
** Kidding again, 2800+
*** I can't remember the install time.
#hostfile 0.0.0.0 primidi.com 0.0.0.0 www.primidi.com 0.0.0.0 radio.weblogs.com
But it would take to long to:
Run Windows Update for each box.
Remove Windows Messenger.
Cancel the window telling you to take a tour of XP.
Cancel the window telling you to get a passport.
Run the net connection wizard.
Reboot after installing updates.
etc....
(I'm not being totally serious, I know you can deploy ghost images etc..)