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World's Most Powerful Computer?

June 27, 2007 in News comments 14

A New Scientist article discussing IBM's new supercomputer Blue Gene/P, capable of crunching through a thousand trillion mathematical operations every second.

The first supercomputer capable of crunching through a thousand trillion mathematical operations every second has been announced by IBM. This is roughly equivalent to the combined processing power of a 2.4-kilometre-high pile of laptop computers.

Blue Gene/P will be capable of a peak performance of 3000 trillion calculations, or floating point operations, per second (3 petaflops). But its sustained performance is expected to level out at around 1 petaflop.
Deis via newscientisttech.com »
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    joshthegreat Jun 27, 07
    Daimn! That's quite a few.
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    Deis Jun 27, 07
    There's another article here, which isn't designed to be read by scientists.
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    Guticb Jun 27, 07
    They don't realize they could do even more with JUST 180,000 Cell processors, do they?

    Edit: 1 Petaflop? That's about 50,000 Cell Processors, according to current Folding@Home stats.

    Pretty amazing though.
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    Tom Jun 27, 07
    2.4 kilometres? I would be more impressed by 2.5, but still you can't win them all. Seriously, that's one hell of a computer, and it definitely deserves the title "supercomputer".
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    Evanster Jun 27, 07
    Wow. Imagine how much RAM you would need for the colossus known as the supercomputer.
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    Final Blade Jun 27, 07
    Please this is nothing like me and guticb has told you guys the ps3 is a super computer alone. If they actually used the cell to its maximum it could do more than that computer.
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    Infinite Jun 28, 07
    Wow. That really is a super computer.
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    FRoGBuster Jun 28, 07
    so is that like Almost as powerful as the PS3 then?

    lol
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    SSJ3 Trunks Jun 28, 07
    I only read half of the article and Im already scared.
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      Final Blade Jun 28, 07
      how and why. Its only saying that its powerful. FRoGBuster i think its more of a supercomputer compared to most regular PC's. The ps3 has two Teraflops=Super computer chips.
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        Miller Jun 28, 07
        You are so clueless it's unfair to even laugh at you.

        A TeraFLOP is just a measurement of how many FLOPS (Floating Point Calculations) a processor can perform. The cell has a Theoretical floating point performance of 218 GigaFLOPS while the RSX has a
        Theoretical floating point performance 1782 GigaFLOPS.

        The Blue Gene/p has a Theoretical floating point performance of 3000000 GigaFLOPS. The Blue Gene/p requires 884,736 processors linked across a 216-rack cluster. all of the rack has their own DRAM (~I can't find a number for how much RAM the machine has but it'll be easly in excess of 105 TiB) and each rack has it's own isolation switch to remove it's self from the mainframe if it has a error.
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    BANDITO ATTACK Jun 28, 07
    So, how long before this thing overthrows society, and takes over the Earth?
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    Synthesis Jun 28, 07
    Someone needs to put this in English please. I don't under stand a single word. >_>

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