Scientists Develop World’s Fastest Supercomputer


	Scientists Develop World’s Fastest Supercomputer

skwirlinator

6-10-2008 10:16 AM

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RoadRunner

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6-10-2008 10:17 AM

skwirlinator

Currently, the world’s top five supercomputers are:

* Blue Gene/L - 478.2 teraflops; 212, 992 processors, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, California.
* Blue Gene/P - 167.3 teraflops; 65536 processors, Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany.
* SGI Altix ICE 8200 - 126.9 teraflops; 14336 processors, SGI/New Mexico Computing Applications Center, Wisconsin, US.
* EKA - Cluster Platform 3000 BL460c - 117.9 teraflops; 14240 processors, Computational Research Laboratories, Pune, India.
* Cluster Platform 3000 BL460c - 102.8 teraflops; 13728 processors, government agency, Sweden.

6-10-2008 10:19 AM

skwirlinator

“The machine was the first to pass through the petaflop barrier,” said Dr Davari.

6-10-2008 11:01 AM

bignosemousie

Once again before all my coffee this morning....

I read this clip title as "Scientists Develop World's Fastest Supermodel". I thought, "Wow! How fast does she get down that runway?"

I shall now go learn what a petaflop is.

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