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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:From the press release... by Daniel+Boisvert · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The closest I've heard of is the Cray X1E, but even that only claims 147 TFLOPS.

  2. Re:hmmmmm... by a1cypher · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Just for a point of reference, does anybody know how many floating point operations a 3.2ghz processor can do per seccond?

    I know its not 3.2billion because most micro operations take at least 3 or 4 clock cycles.

  3. Re:Human Intelligence? by Kethinov · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Isn't the human brain supposed to be equivalent to a supercomputer running at about ~100 teraflops? And if so, shouldn't this computer be smarter than us?
    In Star Trek TNG 2x09 Data was quoted at having a total memory capacity of somewhere around 90 petabytes with a total linear computational speed of 60 trillian operations per second.

    One would say this supercomputer is already more than twice as smart as Data!
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