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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:Perhaps even more importantly by clem.dickey · · Score: 5, Informative

    Or 0.557 petaflops, but who's counting?

    You were misled by a terrible headline. The 0.557 petaflop computer is the fastest *for open science.* Roadrunner, at Los Alamos, tops the list. It does 1 petaflop.

  3. The actual list by Hyppy · · Score: 5, Informative

    Top500 has the actual list. Would have been nice to have this in TFA or TFS.