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"Intrepid" Supercomputer Fastest In the World

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the bravely-and-quickly dept.

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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  1. So ... let met be the first to ask ... by YeeHaW_Jelte · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... will it run Vista with everything on?

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    1. Re:So ... let met be the first to ask ... by cp.tar · · Score: 5, Funny

      ... will it run Vista with everything on?

      Sure it will.

      As long as you don't run any programs.

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    2. Re:So ... let met be the first to ask ... by Conspiracy_Of_Doves · · Score: 4, Funny

      Please, be realistic. These guys are computer engineers, not miracle workers.

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  2. Re:what? where? by cp.tar · · Score: 3, Funny

    What happened to Blue Gene M, N and O?

    I'm more concerned about A, C, G and T.

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  3. Supercomputer by sm62704 · · Score: 4, Funny

    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!"

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  4. Re:what? where? by rnaiguy · · Score: 3, Funny

    No, you'd only find "I" in RNA computing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inosine

  5. Re:Cliche by Gewalt · · Score: 3, Funny
    You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

    gDefine: Intrepid

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  6. Re:Linpack? So does it run Linux? by ZephyrXero · · Score: 3, Funny

    Better question: Does Intrepid run Intrepid?

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