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Japan's Petaflop Supercomputer

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the renders-a-million-tentacles-a-minute dept.

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."

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  1. First post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    FP 231 Did I get it?

  2. Re:Imagine... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    In the vein of your post's moderation score, that would be redundant.

  3. Re:Efficiency by NewbieProgrammerMan · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Well, in the case of SETI@Home, it wouldn't be cheaper to run on the supercomputer - SETI isn't paying for the power to run all those CPUs out there in people's homes and offices.

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  4. Apparent source page for device data by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    http://mdgrape.gsc.riken.jp/modules/tinyd0/index.p hp ...MDGRAPE-3 (aka `Protein Explorer'), a petaflops special-purpose computer system for molecular dynamics simulations of proteins and the other biomolecules/complexes. It will become the first Petaflops machine in the world when it will be finished in 2006. This project is a part of `Protein 3000 project', supported by Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan.

  5. Re:Imagine... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I, for one, welcome our new low slashdot ID humorless forum-nazi overlords.