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Sandia Wants To Build Exaflop Computer
Dan100 brings us an announcement that Sandia and Oak Ridge National Laboratories are setting their sights on an exaflop supercomputer. Researchers from the two laboratories jointly launched the Institute for Advanced Architectures to facilitate development. One of the problems they hope to solve is how to provide each core of each processor with enough data so that cycles aren't going to waste.
"The idea behind the institute — under consideration for a year and a half prior to its opening — is 'to close critical gaps between theoretical peak performance and actual performance on current supercomputers,' says Sandia project lead Sudip Dosanjh. 'We believe this can be done by developing novel and innovative computer architectures.' The institute is funded in FY08 by congressional mandate at $7.4 million."
How long does it typically take for memory and sotrage advances to make to end consumers? For example, when we first heard about "gigabytes" back in the day, how long did it take to get there once it was being done in the laboratory?
OK, here's the truth. I'm just wondering since I need more memory to carrying around the entire internet in my pocket. Right now, I can only fit Ron Paul fanatic postings on my USB stick. They are taking up a lot of room. (Nothing against Ron Paul, mind you.)
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it said Santa was building a super computer :)
No cycles wasted there!
What program would you run on this?
Vista, with Aero enabled.
I am a flopped hex, you insensitive clod!
(or did you mean exaflops, as in 10^18 FLoating point Operations Per Second?)
... they will be the best prepared for duke nukem forever that's for sure.
And if a Democrat it would be: "Who would Marx tax?"
...following the principles of Heisenburger's Uncertain Cat...