Posted by tranced
“I feel the need, the need for speed!” Forgive the ’80s cliche if you will, but it is apropos for the news that the Fujitsu “K” supercomputer, the world’s fastest computer, hit 10 petaflops this week, breaking its own speed record. For perspective, that means that K is capable of 10 quadrillion calculations a second. Now if only Fujitsu would let us run a Starcraft AI on it for kicks and giggles. This new speed benchmark puts this amazing machine almost two full petaflops ahead of its previous speed score last June. The speed test was done while running the LINPACK benchmark application for 30 straight hours, as prescribed by “Top 500,” a site that tracks the fastest computers in the world and ranks them in regards to their relative speed.
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Posted by Bonovox
Wow,what's a petaflop in terms of speed??
Posted by tranced
...is a measure of a computer's performance, especially in fields of scientific calculations that make heavy use of floating-point calculations, similar to the older, simpler, instructions per second.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLOPS
Posted by Bonovox
Sounds quite funny the name. I guess in technical terms then by the sounds of it that it's super fast!!
Posted by Dups!
Amazing!!
Posted by masseur
somehow, it just doesn't have the same style as the old "fastest computers"... the Cray family
Posted by Bonovox
Looks like something from Dr. Who
Posted by goldenface
On 2011-11-08 13:49:00, Bonovox wrote:
Looks like something from Dr. Who
We need something like this to calculate just how many phones you've owned.
Posted by razec
And that supercomputer uses a processors they build by themselves from Japan, no Intel or AMD this time, the previous holder Tianhe-1 had Nvidia Tesla GPGPUs
[ This Message was edited by: razec on 2011-11-09 07:15 ]