AMD/Cray shoot for petaflop supercomputer

[Viditor]

EETimes article

"Cray (Seattle, Wash.) will continue to use AMD?s 64-bit Opteron processors for its future supercomputer lines. In addition, the two companies will collaborate on Cray's mid-2006 proposal for Phase 3 of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) contract...The computers are targeted to run at sustained speeds of one petaflop (million-billion calculations per second) or more by the end of the decade"

And you guys thought your X2s were fast...

 

[Yanagi]

Holy ******! I want i want!

 

[chinkgai]

1,000,000 (aka 1mhz) x 1,000,000,000 (aka 1ghz) = 1,000,000,000,000,000 aka 1 petahertz!


thats about the same as 357,143 fx-57's in terms of pure hertz! ridiculous.

 

[kamranziadar]

by the end of decade. Still four years to go man any thing can happen.

 

[Markbnj]

Where can I download Audigy drivers for my Cray/AMD Petamax? And can I run teh linux on it?

Thanks!

 

[Viditor]

Originally posted by: Markbnj
Where can I download Audigy drivers for my Cray/AMD Petamax? And can I run teh linux on it?

Thanks!

The Audigy drivers will probably crash it, but I hear that you will finally be able to run BF2 with no CPU limitations...

 

[Leper Messiah]

oooh. Can I run F@H on that for a week? I'd be number one!

 

[bunnyfubbles]

Finally, computers powerful enough to run Jurassic Park without the slipups.

 

[dguy6789]

Originally posted by: Leper Messiah
oooh. Can I run F@H on that for a week? I'd be number one!

Try 45 minutes.

 

[videogames101]

Imagine, 32 BF2 programs all up at once, all at your control....... You could fight the battle on your own with a 32x firing trigger