Europe's Most Powerful Supercomputer Turned On

[XZeroII]

I guess someone must have bought a PII 400 off eBay and found an American to ship it over there

j/k

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - International Business Machines, the world's largest computer company, says it has switched on Europe's most powerful supercomputer at Germany's Juelich research centre.

The machine, whose first operation will be to calculate the diffusion of harmful materials in soil, has a peak performance of 8.9 teraflops, or 8.9 trillion operations per second.

It is nearly twice as powerful as Hewlett-Packard's AlphaServer for France's nuclear energy agency CEA, which topped the European ranking until now, according to www.top500.org.

Worldwide, the new supercomputer is just outside the top 10 which is led by Japan's earth simulator, built by NEC and capable of 41 trillion calculations per second.

 

[ThePresence]

Cool. I wanna see Kasparov play this one.

 

[StageLeft]

At 15:32 GMT, 2/27/2004, EU's supercomputer gained consciousness. 71 days later 98% of Europe was without power or running water. 26 days after this WW4 began.

 

[SaintGRW]

weak, I already have 2 of those in my bedroom.

 

[Argo]

Originally posted by: SaintGRW
weak, I already have 2 of those in my bedroom.

Why bedroom? To download porn faster?

 

[rh71]

I B M rules all

 

[CraigRT]

JESUS that is insane!