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."

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Is there?

[elgee]

Is there such a thing as a "Metaflop?"

Inquiring idiots want to know!

To put 10 Petaflops in perspective

[hongree]

"The supercomputer has a performing capacity equivalent to 500,000 high-functioning computers, the business daily said." Forbes, June 22, 2005 Haha ha.

Re:136.8 teaflops

[hackwrench]

What I want to know is how do you boil a kettle and pour a little bit of it into a teapot, how does boiling make the tea any stronger than simply leaving the teabag in for a long while? Also, whether the tea goes into the milk or the milk into the tea, shouldn't the result be the same?

No no, you misunderstand.

[game kid]

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

You fail to see the point. That means it's very fast. Still, Japan's computer will take over with its ten 500 GB Hitach Desktstars. Speaking of typos...

(from the story) Current fastest supercomputer is the partially finished Blue Gene is capable of 136.8 teaflops and the target when finished is 360 teraflops.

That makes the Zero Wing intro look like a proper MLA paper. ;)

Re:136.8 teaflops

[brer_rabbit]

I don't know, 136.8 tea baggings per second is a lot. How much gay porn is that?

Serious Note: Japanese Fighter Aircraft

[reporter]

On a more serious note, Tokyo should focus its future supercomputer development on projects of national importance. One area which is in vital need of improvement is fighter aircraft.

The best fighter that Tokyo has built so far is the F-2. It is based on decades-old technology called the American F-16. The F-2, ironically, is even more expensive than the F-15, another decades-old technology.

Beijing poses a grave threat to Australia, Japan, and other Western nations. In any conflict with Beijing, Tokyo must achieve air superiority. Frankly, the F-2 is unlikely to be adequate for the job even though the F-2 is the pride of the Japanese Self-Defense Force.

Tokyo should apply its incredible arsenal of home-grown computing power to designing the very best all-Japanese fighter. The key is air superiority against any Chinese or Korean threat. Further, the new Japanese jet fighter must be fast enough to intercept any Chinese strike against Australia. A new Japanese aircraft carrier (armed with these new Japanese fighters) patrolling near Australia should do the trick.

1 petaflop = 1 brainsec

[iendedi]

A computer that fast could nearly think!

Considering that 1 petaflop roughly= 1 brainsec (the amount of information processing that a typical human brain performs in one second), not only would this computer be fast enough to think, but it should be capable of simulating the brains of 9 human beings, or almost 73 slashdotters with a little bit of idle time on the side.