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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."
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 see they are upgrading to get ready for Longhorn.
These 136.8 teaflops could have been avoided if the proper specifications were used before hardware development and programming began. Essential tea technical info.
BlueGene/L is the fastest super computer at the moment; however, BlueGene/C (which, for the record, I'm working on as part of my PhD) will be finished very soon (it was supposed to be out of the foundry by the end of August, but the project is running slightly behind schedule). I'm told there are, as yet, no plans to publish any performance benchmarks.
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If funding runs out for this one, they'll end up with a 1 Belly-flop supercomputer
*ba-dum-dum ching!*
READY.
PRINT ""+-0
...and I want a pony.
Guess which two things aren't happening anytime soon?
I mean seriously... Doom 4 isn't even out yet.
**insert favorite profound quotation here**
Big deal, the white mice have had this beat for years...
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.
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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?
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!?
No animals will be harmed in the production of this computer.
I guess you could say they're Peta-philes.
The wording of the article is terrible. "Japan Wants to Build 10 Petaflop Supercomputer", I want to build a 10 petaflop computer, too, does that mean I am capable of that? No. The difference is Japan set forth the process of creating a 10 petaflop computer. The article should read something like "Japan Building 10 Petaflop Supercomputer".
Why don't they ever mention the real world stats or operational supercomputers? /C which is falling behind, but at least they're not reporting any numbers until it actually works.
They keep saying BlueGene/L when it's not even completed (maybe it finally is). There's also
The fastest operational (like anything else matters) supercomputer is Columbia at NASA. And guess what? It's doing a ton of usefull work, like helping make sure the Space Shuttle launches without a hitch by computing all the Thermal Protection System problems and various other analyses.
Look at the number of processors it uses and it's performance compared to the others. It's one of the more efficient of the bunch.
Just wait until they upgrade it..
Top500 should include different rankings, like efficiency or measurable areas other than projected TFlops. In the end it's not how many you got, but how well you can use them.
-- Robi