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NNSA Supercomputer Breaks Computing Record

Posted by timothy on from the we're-simulating-a-stockpile dept.

Lecutis writes "National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Administrator Linton F. Brooks announced that on March 23, 2005, a supercomputer developed through the Advanced Simulation and Computing program for NNSAs Stockpile Stewardship efforts has performed 135.3 trillion floating point operations per second (teraFLOP/s) on the industry standard LINPACK benchmark, making it the fastest supercomputer in the world."

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  1. Re:Neat by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    I think they were waiting for final specs on Doom3.

  2. imagine by dario_moreno · · Score: 3, Funny

    a Beowulf cluster of these !

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  3. Wow! by FlyByPC · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just imagine running Fractint on this puppy!

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  4. Steroids by tiktok · · Score: 4, Funny

    There was another machine that had already beaten that record, but unfortunately failed a diagnostic test for banned substances...

  5. It's so fast... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    that it almost meets the minimum requirements for Longhorn.

  6. Wow. by TsukasaZero · · Score: 2, Funny

    Slap an X850 in there and you've got some serious Doom 3 action.

  7. Yeah, but... by Black+Jack+Hyde · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...will it run NetHack?

  8. Re:Human Intelligence? by trippy · · Score: 2, Funny

    Maybe so, but this thing is HUGE compared to Data. If Data were as large as this, the Enterprise would need a trailer to lug around his fat ass.

  9. 135.3 trillion floating point operations per seco by alex4u2nv · · Score: 4, Funny

    135.3 trillion floating point operations per second

    Does this mean we can't slashdot it?

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  10. You of course know what this means. by Allnighterking · · Score: 2, Funny

    You can now open a Mozilla session in under a minute!

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  11. Re:and its only half the machine too! by Profane+MuthaFucka · · Score: 4, Funny

    Easy cowboy, before you start proclaiming that we could wipe out all the leadership of an arbitrary country, let's just get Osama first. OK?

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  12. You Gotta Love This... by Nom+du+Keyboard · · Score: 2, Funny
    Scientists at LLNL for the first time have performed 16-million-atom molecular dynamics simulations with the highest accuracy inter-atomic potentials necessary to resolve the key physical effects to successfully model pressure induced rapid resolidification in Tantalum.

    You just gotta love a sentence like that!

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