Posted April 9, 200916 yr http://www.newscientist.com/data/images/ns/cms/dn16925/dn16925-1_300.jpg Jaguar is located at the National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS), part of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee, and has a peak operating performance of 1.64 petaflops, meaning it can perform more than a million billion mathematical operations every second. Jaguar has 181,000 processing cores, compared to the one or two found in most desktop machines. The world's only more powerful computer is the US Nuclear Security Administration's 1.7-petaflop Roadrunner at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. source That machine might improve your framerate just a little, eh ? edit - related: World's fastest computer built from video game chips By using computer chips designed for a video game console, the US Department of Energy has claimed a new record for the fastest computer in the world. Built from 13,000 of the Cell processors first used in the PlayStation 3 console, teamed up with nearly 7,000 AMD processors designed for desktop computers, the "RoadRunner" can process information at speeds around twice as fast as the previous fastest computer. RoadRunner recently managed to run 1000 trillion calculations per second, the US Department of Energy said on Monday, compared to the 500 trillion per second of the best IBM BlueGene supercomputer. BlueGene designs have dominated and topped the TOP500 rankings of the world's fastest computers for years, but now look to have lost the top spot. A trillion calculations per second is known as a teraflop. RoadRunner, at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, US, has become the world's first petaflop computer. Superfast A spokesperson for the lab said that RoadRunner's daily output was equivalent to each of the 6 billion people on earth using a calculator to crunch numbers for 24 hours a day for 46 years. "Roadrunner will be used by the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration to perform calculations that vastly improve the ability to certify that the US nuclear weapons stockpile is reliable without conducting underground nuclear tests," the department said in a statement. "Roadrunner will also contribute to solving our global energy challenges, and open new windows of knowledge in the basic scientific research fields," it added. catch that one, coyote... Edited April 9, 200916 yr by mandatory05 "When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite." - Winston Churchill
April 9, 200916 yr SIGH why do you do these things to me. http://i197.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/VisOne_Photo/Signatures%20and%20Banners/VisP.png
April 9, 200916 yr Author LOL edit: RoadRunner's daily output was equivalent to each of the 6 billion people on earth using a calculator to crunch numbers for 24 hours a day for 46 years there's something strangely disturbing about that statistic... Edited April 9, 200916 yr by mandatory05 "When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite." - Winston Churchill
April 9, 200916 yr "Roadrunner will also contribute to solving our global energy challenges, and open new windows of knowledge in the basic scientific research fields," it added. LOL after it consumes all of the world's power trying to do one of those calculations (not to mention the airconditioning required to keep that dude cool) http://i235.photobucket.com/albums/ee94/psyrus_uraya/awards-1.png QFT: Your computer is smart man. It tells you not to play the second worst PR map [burning Sands] (first is Wanda Shan). QFT: if you dont get pissed off when you lose you dont care enough
April 9, 200916 yr The only problem is you are going to need to install 90,500 graphics cards to keep up with the processors. (Assuming a 2:1 ratio for a standard dual core desktop)
April 9, 200916 yr meh... take your 1.7 petaflop and raise it with http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/feb/03/fastest-supercomputer-ibm-sequoia The new system, dubbed Sequoia, will be able to achieve speeds of up to 20 Petaflops - 20 quadrillion calculations per second - the equivalent of more than 2m laptops. http://i783.photobucket.com/albums/yy116/IINoddyII/aux1_zpsab5224fd.png
April 9, 200916 yr when I started working in Mainframes (univac 1100/80) they looked like this: http://www.frobenius.com/univac.jpg now they look like: http://origin.arstechnica.com/news.media/z890.jpg not relevant to the topic at hand... just memories... and for reference... nobody that hot ever works in mainframe Edited April 9, 200916 yr by Sapper28 http://i783.photobucket.com/albums/yy116/IINoddyII/aux1_zpsab5224fd.png
April 9, 200916 yr Noddy, that thing above seriously looks like a laser portal thing from Star Wars. You know how they flash down and it is like a wall that will kill you if you touch it. From that movie how the Jedi is trying to kill they guy with the Red sword that has 2 ends and the jedi has a green one and ends up dying and falling into the massive hole ? http://i.imgur.com/DtNdckc.png [WC]Xavo|xXx:
April 9, 200916 yr Noddy, that thing above seriously looks like a laser portal thing from Star Wars. You know how they flash down and it is like a wall that will kill you if you touch it. From that movie how the Jedi is trying to kill they guy with the Red sword that has 2 ends and the jedi has a green one and ends up dying and falling into the massive hole ? looks like a ps3 to me, maybe im crazy.....
April 9, 200916 yr looks like a ps3 to me, maybe im crazy..... ahaha, i think it looks like a bunch of plastic with a few wires and maybe a disc. Who knows. http://i574.photobucket.com/albums/ss187/Chanvlan/new_kit.jpg yeah but this is the internet' date=' you have to expect the unexpected or else you'll get caught out by things you should've expected but didn't. Its exactly like knowing about the stuff you dont know about, that way you know theres stuff you dont know so when you know what you dont know you can say "ah i knew that!"[/quote']
April 9, 200916 yr looks like a ps3 to me, maybe im crazy..... true... 'cept it's about the size of a large fridge http://i783.photobucket.com/albums/yy116/IINoddyII/aux1_zpsab5224fd.png
April 9, 200916 yr http://computer-history.info/Page4.dir/pages/Univac.dir/images/MagTapeDrive.jpg [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onZHpGYFPls]YouTube - wacky waiving inflatable arm flailing tube man[/ame] Danger Danger Danger my arms a flailing around! http://i197.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/VisOne_Photo/Signatures%20and%20Banners/VisP.png
April 10, 200916 yr Author Yes, yes, but of course - in my day these machines were enormous and the user interface was hardly wysiwyg. There were some data-representation issues... http://www.presents-4-kids.co.uk/images/hibba2007/giant_abacus.jpg "When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite." - Winston Churchill
April 10, 200916 yr lol sandy.. :(When swimming in sh!t, best keep your chin up! http://i267.photobucket.com/albums/ii300/3D_Gimp/bDSig2014_zpsbfe88bfb.png
April 10, 200916 yr notice how they chose ps3's over xbox's? lol suck on that one xbrick fans, the computer building nerds have just settled the console war for good lol Fear is another word for weakness.
April 10, 200916 yr No matter how many xflops supercomputers have these days, they will invariably crash due to EA's horrific programming and their fantastic ability to bring any feasable system to their knees. Call sign: 'GLORIA' Me: Boss, So you're dead dead down dead? Buzzsnr: Yes, I'm down down dead down. Dead.
April 10, 200916 yr No matter how many xflops supercomputers have these days, they will invariably crash due to EA's horrific programming and their fantastic ability to bring any feasable system to their knees. Lol Classic cause its true http://matt.itsthemadhouse.com/na/sigs/na-sig-gruanch5.png http://bigdgaming.net/images/added/awards/bulletmagnet.bmp http://bigdgaming.net/images/added/awards/gren.bmp http://bigdgaming.net/images/added/awards/ocrs.bmp http://bigdgaming.net/images/added/awards/opagamaserv.jpg
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