Japan Wants to Build 10 Petaflop Supercomputer

deepexplorer writes "Japan wants to gain the fastest supercomputer spot back. Japan wants to develop a supercomputer that can operate at 10 petaflops, or 10 quadrillion calculations per second, which is 73 times faster than the Blue Gene. Current fastest supercomputer is the partially finished Blue Gene is capable of 136.8 teraflops and the target when finished is 360 teraflops."

Comments

I want! I want!

[Anonymous Coward]

Well I want a Stargate, but that doesn't mean I'm gonna get one. I bet OpenOffice.org will still take 5 minutes to start on it.

Re:I want! I want!

[Saeed al-Sahaf]

Well I want a Stargate, but that doesn't mean I'm gonna get one. I bet OpenOffice.org will still take 5 minutes to start on it.

I didn't realize that Stargates ran Linux...

Re:I want! I want!

[maotx]

Thats Field Programable Gate Arrays, not Female Pro Golfers Associtation.

Yes, but which one is more attractive?
Better yet, which one will I have a better shot at?

Re:I want! I want!

[goneutt]

Considering your on /. I'd say the Field Programmable Gate Array is the one you have a better shot at, (following comment refraind from because I'm not that drunk, but I think the general idea about the membership of the Female PGA is self evident of where this joke was going)

Re:I want! I want!

[RRRussian]

Alas, your mythical FPGA is known as the LPGA. Because I guess the females prefer to be called ladies...

Re:I want! I want!

[16K Ram Pack]

That's the L word I was thinking of...

What the article doesn't say

[Anonymous Coward]

The supercomputer will be pocket-sized and ran on two AA batteries.

Re:What the article doesn't say

[Anonymous Coward]

Will it look kind of like this?

Re:What the article doesn't say

[Em Adespoton]

TeaFLOPS - Tea FLoating Operations Per Second -- it's how many bits escape from the teabag/strainer/ball and float to the surface per second, of course. The delightful thing about this computer is that instead of only having two states, and a fixed size of 32 bits per bite, you can have an infinitely scalable states, and slurps can be of a variable size. Thermal cooling is done via Milk.

Ahh

[pHatidic]

I see they are upgrading to get ready for Longhorn.

Re:Ahh

[Savatte]

they still won't be able to run doom3, though

Re:Ahh

[__aaclcg7560]

Yeah. It's a Windows Longhorn test system that can determine all the sercurity and system vulnerabilities in a matter of seconds instead of weeks. Windows still crashes but now you don't have to wait. ;)

Re:Ahh

[WhiteBandit]

What's incredible is that Doom 3 is the first graphics engine to bring a computer to its knees by simply rendering darkness. It's amazing!

136.8 teaflops

[Anonymous Coward]

These 136.8 teaflops could have been avoided if the proper specifications were used before hardware development and programming began. Essential tea technical info.

Re:136.8 teaflops

[Anonymous Coward]

Actually, this is a key component of the infinite improbability drive when combined with not teaflops.

If the project fails

[Neo-Rio-101]

If funding runs out for this one, they'll end up with a 1 Belly-flop supercomputer

*ba-dum-dum ching!*

Japan wants a 10 petaflop supercomputer...

[daveschroeder]

...and I want a pony.

Guess which two things aren't happening anytime soon?

Re:Japan wants a 10 petaflop supercomputer...

[mr_tenor]

No, you can't have a pony.

Re:Japan wants a 10 petaflop supercomputer...

[daveschroeder]

Oops, I'm getting married!

So I'd say you're definitely wrong, and I guess I might get a pony after all!

But Japan still won't get a 10Pflop supercomputer.

But thanks for your concern!

Re:Eh?

[Transcendent]

What the hell is "Wot"?

Getting a little ahead of themselves?

[Valarauk]

I mean seriously... Doom 4 isn't even out yet.

Re:Getting a little ahead of themselves?

[inu_maru]

Of course is not meant for Doom 4... is for a date Simulator!

Re:Getting a little ahead of themselves?

[techno-vampire]

I thought they were planning to have it run Duke Nukem Forever.

Re:Getting a little ahead of themselves?

[Shazow]

The universe doesn't have enough atoms to construct a computer capable of running Doom 4.

All they want to do is just be able to run Doom 3 on max settings.

- shazow

I've seen better

[Anonymous Coward]

Big deal, the white mice have had this beat for years...

Mommy, mommy

[icepick72]

Japan wants to gain the fastest supercomputer spot back.
Japan wants to develop ...

Japan wants a lot of things now doesn't it. Well, Japan will just have to be a good little country and maybe Santa will come.

This just in:

[GuitarNeophyte]

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Re:WTF is a Teaflop??

[forrestt]

Seven, but the last one doesn't count.

japan's new hotbox

[medep]

japan is thinking "but we just bought this computer, it's obsolete already? shit a brick!" anyone in the market for a slightly used supercomputer?

Man...

[Lobster Cowboy]

The Japanese are really sensitive about the whole "small penis" thing.

wow...

[idiotdevel]

yeah... um... so I'm guessing OpenOffice would at least startup semi-fast on that machine

Fast enough to do proper spellchecking

[IoN_PuLse]

If only there was a supercomputer that could revise news posts before they go live? It could be in the form of *gasp* an editor!?

Go go Godzilla!

[Duncan3]

That much heat in one place has got to wake up something doesn't it?

Re:teaflops

[ian rogers]

If your brain was operating at 10 petaflops, it would have only taken a few seconds to realize.

PETA

[ndansmith]

No animals will be harmed in the production of this computer.

Re:PETA

[iendedi]

The engineers working on this project will be very upset when they are told they are being put on a vegitarian diet.

Deserving of the pun...

[EvilLile]

I guess you could say they're Peta-philes.

10 Petaflops?

[mswope]

How many BogoMips is that?

Re:teaflops

[Anonymous Coward]

Actually a peaflop is: missing the urinal.
Not to be confused with the p34fl0ppy which requires v14gr4.

Okay, some other observations

[suitepotato]

First, it seems almost powerful enough that it might start and run Adobe Premiere within four or five hours instead of six or seven.

Second, Kingdom of Loathing would finally have zero lag on the server side.

Third, it might be slightly more resistant to Slashdoting and building a router out of one of these might complete the defense.

Fourth, by the time this ends up on my desktop, Duke Nukem Forever will be in beta.

Other than that, should make wonderful blurb filler regarding chess matches with Russians for kids' science news periodicals.

Re:BlueGene/C will be finished soon

[Raul654]

The C in BlueGene/C stands for "Cyclops64", which is the name of the architecture. (It's usually shortened to C64)

Re:Bad Wording

[coma_bug]

The wording of the article is terrible.

You must be new here.

Fastest supercomputer

[Neo-Rio-101]

I thought the fastest supercomputer was the flux capacitor. You know, at the calculated moment, you start off from down the street driving toward the cable accelerating to 88 miles per hour. According to the flyer, at 10.04pm lightning will strike the clocktower sending 1.21 gigawatts into the flux-capacitor, sending you back to 1985.

Re:WTF is a Teaflop??

[LordEd]

A teaflop is a unit of computation speed in reference to the computer in the Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy book that got bogged down trying to create a cup of tea.

A computer with a 500 teaflop capacity is able to produce a perfect cup of tea with just a hint of honey and milk in it in under 2 minutes, while still evading a Vogon fleet.

Unfortunately, it cannot run Linux.

BlueGene/C uses C64 architecture?

[iendedi]

The C in BlueGene/C stands for "Cyclops64", which is the name of the architecture. (It's usually shortened to C64)

When you read this, are you thinking what I am thinking?

Re:BlueGene/C uses C64 architecture?

[Raul654]

I swear I had to stare at my comment for a solid 10 seconds to figure out why I got modded as funny before it dawned on me. It honestly never occured to me before that C64 could refer to something else.

Re:BlueGene/C uses C64 architecture?

[deathy_epl ccs]

I think so, Brain, but where are we going to get a hot tub filled with gelatin, a ping pong ball and a rubber hose at this time of night? NARF!

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[Black Copter Control]

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