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Software to Make Blue Gene Top 200 Teraflops

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the crunching-rather-than-taste dept.

An anonymous reader writes "New Scientist has a story about the most intensive computer program ever created. It runs on IBM's big beast, Blue Gene/L, at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California and carries out 207.3 teraflops (trillion cacluations per second). The program, called Qbox, performs very complex quantum calculations to simulate the behaviour of thousands of atoms in three dimensions. Wow."

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  1. Slight clarification by LiquidCoooled · · Score: 4, Funny

    It does not perform very complex quantum calculations, instead
    It simulates interactions between 1000 molybdenum atoms under high pressure using equations that take the quantum behaviour of electrons into account.

    Also, when its not being used to dynamically model atomic structures, the IRS uses it to calculate Bill gates's taxes.

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    1. Re:Slight clarification by rolfwind · · Score: 4, Funny

      And it almost makes the requirements for Vista!

  2. Only the most intensive USEFUL program by stratjakt · · Score: 5, Funny

    I mean, I'm sure I could use up more than 200 teraflops with my "while (1);" program.

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  3. Molest me not by Weaselmancer · · Score: 4, Funny

    The program, called Qbox, performs very complex quantum calculations to simulate the behaviour of thousands of atoms in three dimensions.

    "Molest me not with this pocket calcualtor stuff."

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    Weaselmancer
    rediculous.
  4. Smart, sure. But is it happy? by fred_sanford · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oblig. H2G2. "Here I am, brain the size of a planet and they ask me to take you down to the bridge. Call that job satisfaction? 'Cos I don't." - Marvin

  5. I suspect the answer ends up by jhw539 · · Score: 4, Funny

    42.

  6. Re:Yeah, but... by elrous0 · · Score: 5, Funny
    It's so powerful, it can beat Kasparov in chess and monitor millions of phone calls for the NSA *at the same time*!

    -Eric

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  7. Re:Yeah, but... by elrous0 · · Score: 4, Funny
    Geez, I am sick of getting modded down for this. Can /. please stop giving the White House unlimited mod points?

    -Eric

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    SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.