World's Most Powerful x86 Supercomputer Boots Up in Germany

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World's Most Powerful x86 Supercomputer Boots Up in Germany

Posted by timothy on Thursday July 26, 2012 @07:23AM from the wherever-it-wants-to dept.

Nerval's Lobster writes "Europe's most powerful supercomputer — and the fourth most powerful in the world — has been officially inaugurated. The SuperMUC, ranked fourth in the June TOP500 supercomputing listing, contains 147,456 cores using Intel Xeon 2.7-GHz, 8-core E5-2680 chips. IBM, which built the supercomputer, stated in a recent press release that the supercomputer actually includes more than 155,000 processor cores. It is located at the Leibniz-Rechenzentrum (Leibniz Supercomputing Centre) in Garching, Germany, near Munich. According to the TOP500 list, the SuperMUC is the world's most powerful X86-based supercomputer. The Department of Energy's 'Sequoia' supercomputer at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, Calif., the world's [overall] most powerful, relies on 16-core, 1.6-GHz POWER BQC chips."

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DID SOMEONE SAY BBQ? by Rinikusu · 2012-07-26 07:26 · Score: 4, Funny

My fatass almost got excited for a second.. a supercomputer fueled by BBQ... :(

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1. Re:DID SOMEONE SAY BBQ? by Megahard · 2012-07-26 08:04 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  No, it just runs hot enough to also work as a BBQ.
  
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Re:I need that... by Anonymous Coward · 2012-07-26 07:27 · Score: 3, Funny

Or check tpyos.
Re:I need that... by Qubit · 2012-07-26 07:28 · Score: 5, Funny

...so I can first post mote quickly!
let's fix you're spelling frist, then work on the spead of you're posting.

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Power BBQ Chips by j.+andrew+rogers · 2012-07-26 07:29 · Score: 3, Funny

I need to find myself some of these Power BBQ Chips mentioned in the summary. Fast and tangy without the downside of Cheetoh fingers.
the real question by slashmydots · 2012-07-26 07:31 · Score: 4, Funny

But the real question is, can it run bitcoin mining software? See, you thought I was going to say Linux or Crysis, didn't you? lol.

P.S. most miners are run on Linux btw ;-)
Re:I need that... by damn_registrars · 2012-07-26 07:34 · Score: 3, Funny

...so I can first post mote quickly!
let's fix you're spelling frist, then work on the spead of you're posting.
You head two many correctly sppeled wurds you must be a bot.

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Slashdot Grab Bag by Roachie · 2012-07-26 07:42 · Score: 3, Funny

1) Does it run Linux?
2) I for one, would like to welcome our new register constrained overlord.
3) Can you imagine a Beowulf cluster of these?
4) In Soviet Russia supercomputer run YOU!
5) There is no God, I reject your fairytales.

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1. Re:Slashdot Grab Bag by slew · 2012-07-26 09:42 · Score: 1, Funny
  
  1) Does it run Linux?
  2) I for one, would like to welcome our new register constrained overlord.
  3) Can you imagine a Beowulf cluster of these?
  4) In Soviet Russia supercomputer run YOU!
  5) There is no God, I reject your fairytales.
  6) ???
  7) Profit!
What about CE? by Impy+the+Impiuos+Imp · 2012-07-26 07:47 · Score: 5, Funny

> actually includes more than 155,000 processor cores
Scientists and engineers toyed with putting Windows 8 on it, but Windows 8 with 150,000-200,000 core support was over $73 trillion.

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I can hear the chants ... by jxander · 2012-07-26 07:55 · Score: 4, Funny

We're number four!!
We're number four!!
We're number four!!

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Re:Someone had to say it... by cephus440 · 2012-07-26 08:40 · Score: 3, Funny

I'm glad they didn't use Cyrix CPUs.