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World’s fastest supercomputer receives upgrade, breaks 10 petaflops |
tranced
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From: Santo Domingo, wonDeRland
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“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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Bonovox
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Wow,what's a petaflop in terms of speed??
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tranced
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From: Santo Domingo, wonDeRland
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...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
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Bonovox
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Sounds quite funny the name. I guess in technical terms then by the sounds of it that it's super fast!!
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Dups!
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Amazing!!
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masseur
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somehow, it just doesn't have the same style as the old "fastest computers"... the Cray family
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Bonovox
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Looks like something from Dr. Who
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goldenface
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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.
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razec
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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 ] 10 years at Esato |
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