Installation of Blue Waters Petaflop Supercomputer Begins

An anonymous reader writes "The National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois is finally getting the troubled Blue Waters supercomputer installed. After IBM walked away from the project after 3 years of planning, Cray stepped in to pick up the $188 million contract. Now, in around 9 months time, Blue Waters should be fully operational and achieve performance of 1 petaflop or more. As for the hardware... who wouldn't want access to 235 Cray XE6 cabinets using AMD 16 core Opteron 2600 processors with access to 1.5 petabytes of memory (4GB per chip) and 500 petabytes of local storage."

Comments

Re:who wouldn't want access?

[Forbman]

well, it can run Crysis at about 42 fps...

Re:there is nothing flop about it you idiot.

[CajunArson]

Ahh Unity100 just waiting for your moronic comments about how the entire world just isn't "worthy" enough to be blessed by AMD's God-Like perfection. P.S. --> You are full of crap with those numbers, go a real site like.. uh.. AMD's own marketing blogs and they'll quote you 1 - 2%. You're 28% is pulled from your backside, which does not count.

Please do tell us all about miracle software patches for Windows in an article about supercomputers that will never see a single Windows installation. Please tell us all about what you've learned from AMD marketing now that they've fired all they're employees. Please tell us more about how you ripped off PHP software from legitimate open source projects, resell it as close sourced software in violation of the licenses, and then prattle on about how you know more than anyone else about supercomputing.... AGAIN.

With fans like you, AMD doesn't need enemies.