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"Intrepid" Supercomputer Fastest In the World
Stony Stevenson writes "The US Department of Energy's (DoE) high performance computing system is now the fastest supercomputer in the world for open science, according to the Top 500 list of the world's fastest computers.
The list was announced this week during the International Supercomputing Conference in Dresden, Germany.
IBM's Blue Gene/P, known as 'Intrepid,' is located at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility and is also ranked third fastest overall.
The supercomputer has a peak performance of 557 teraflops and achieved a speed of 450.3 teraflops on the Linpack application used to measure speed for the Top 500 rankings. According to the list, 74.8 percent of the world's supercomputers (some 374 systems) use Intel processors, a rise of 4 percent in six months. This represents the biggest slice of the supercomputer cake for the firm ever."
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Apparently, not necessarily. It's just some Fortran routines.
So much for that joke.
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I'm more concerned about A, C, G and T.
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And that's the unclassified speed. Just imagine how fast it can really go! Just like the SR-71!
Computer scientists building the monstrosity admit that it still isn't powerful enough to run VISTA with all the bells and whistles turned on.
George Broussard says that when the next generation of this machine reaches the desktop, Duke Nukem 4ever will be released. "Really", he said, "The game's been finished for over five years now. We're just waiting for a powerful enough computer to play it on."
Sources say that besides computitng power, DNF is waiting for the holographic display. The The US Department of Energy's (DoE) high performance computing system lacks a holographic display.
Gamers were reportedly disappointed in the news, although most said the price of the DoE's new computer wouldn't faze them. "After all" one said, "you have to have a decent machine to play any modern game!"
mcgrew's razor: Never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by greedy self-interest
No, you'd only find "I" in RNA computing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inosine
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This raises another question: how much porn can fit into one DNA molecule?
And should we store it in female DNA, just to be on the safe side?
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Intrepid can refer to:
- Chevrolet Intrepid, the International Motor Sports Association GT Championship car, which raced from 1991 to 1993
- William Stephenson, the Canadian World War II spymaster whose code name was Intrepid
- Dodge Intrepid, the automobile
- Intrepid Games, a satellite company of the computer game developer Lionhead Studios, now disbanded
- The Lunar module of the 1969 Apollo 12 lunar landing mission
- Several real and fictional ships named USS Intrepid
- USS Intrepid (1798), was an armed ketch captured as a prize by the US Navy on 23 December 1803 and later exploded in the harbor of Tripoli 4 September 1804
- USS Intrepid (1874), was an experimental steam torpedo ram commissioned 31 July 1874 and sold 9 May 1892
- USS Intrepid (1904), was a training and receiving ship launched 8 October 1904 and sold 20 December 1921
- USS Intrepid (CV-11), was an aircraft carrier launched 26 April 1943 and decommissioned 15 March 1974. Intrepid opened as a museum in New York City during August 1982 and is designated as a National Historic Landmark
- The fictional Star Trek Starfleet includes a line of Intrepid-class starships
- USS Bellerophon (NCC-74705) Transports Vice Admiral William Ross, Dr. Julian Bashir and Section 31 operative Luther Sloan from Deep Space Nine to Romulus in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges".
- USS Voyager (NCC-74656)
- Several ships named HMS Intrepid
- The first Intrepid was a third rate ship of the line captured from the French in 1747.
- The second Intrepid was a third rate ship of the line built in 1770.
- The sixth Intrepid was an Apollo class cruiser which was sunk as a blockship in the Zeebrugge raid.
- The seventh Intrepid, was an I class destroyer launched in 1936, that served in World War II and was sunk by air attack in 1943.
- The eighth Intrepid (L11), launched 1964, was a landing platform dock that served in the Falklands War.
- An American Civil War military balloon aircraft named Intrepid (balloon aircraft)
- Union of Border Worlds ship BWS Intrepid in Wing Commander IV: The Price of Freedom
- US-22 America's Cup Intrepid (yacht)
- The Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum in Manhattan
- Intrepid Ibex, the codename for the 8.10 (October 2008) in-development release of the Ubuntu Linux operating system
- Intrepid Travel, Australia based small group adventure company.
- Intrepid Kart, an Italian kart chassis manufacturer
I guess they could have called it the "dauntless", but I'm not sure why anyone would give a supercomputer either name. A ship, sure, but you would think they would use a name that was a synonym for "speedy" for a supercomputer, not "fearless".mcgrew's razor: Never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by greedy self-interest
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