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Japan's Petaflop Supercomputer
slashthedot writes "Japan has built the fastest supercomputer in the world. While the BlueGene/L contains 130,000 processors, Japan has managed to create the first Petaflop supercomputer, called MDGrape-3, with just 4808 chips, and it cost just $9 million to develop."
Making that computer must have been harder than getting a story from MSN posted on the main page of Slashdot!
Not unless that is what they are going to use to render the tentacle porn; it IS a Japanese Supercomputer, after all.
Y'know, I have a feeling I should really post this as anonymous coward.
Why, yes, I AM a Pagan Libertarian.
Will this run Vista at a decent speed, or should I wait for the Rev B and SP1?
NOT what the VP of Marketing wants to hear:
"Not just a flop, but a flop a million billion times over."
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...its Geforce MX 420.
but I thought Japan already had a lot of studys on protein?
I've seen the videos of it a few times and stumbled across entire collections of them! they call it something like bukkake.
>Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these!
/know/ that you're going to get modded down.
With a side order of hot grits!
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I remember back when that comment would have gotten +5 "Whoa duuuuude" mods.
Yet you can still get good mods if you say:
"A petaflop that fits in a closet for just $9M for the first one? You could make more for a couple million, at least by the time you got your [impressive knowlegeable-sounding ultra-tech adjectives] cluster interconnect together - why not spend a quarter of a billion and push the limits of computing out another couple orders of magnitude? This thing can do protein folding, so it can likely do bomb physics and a bunch of other big-money problems that can be represented in similar math."
Which translates to:
"Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these!"
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