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World's Most Powerful x86 Supercomputer Boots Up in Germany

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. DID SOMEONE SAY BBQ? by Rinikusu · · Score: 4, Funny

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

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  2. Re:I need that... by Qubit · · 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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  3. the real question by slashmydots · · 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 ;-)

  4. What about CE? by Impy+the+Impiuos+Imp · · 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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  5. I can hear the chants ... by jxander · · Score: 4, Funny

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

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