IBM's newest supercomputer

[Sunner]

Sounds pretty nice.
TheReg

 

[Serp86]

i have always been confused with tera flops.

how much teraflops does a p4 2.8ghz amount to?

Thnkx

 

[fkloster]

...and two petabytes of disk storage.

Petabytes? 😕

 

[shr]

Originally posted by: Serp86
i have always been confused with tera flops.

how much teraflops does a p4 2.8ghz amount to?

Thnkx

About .0005 🙂

 

[Hanpan]

Originally posted by: fkloster

...and two petabytes of disk storage.

Petabytes? 😕

If I am not mistaken that is 2048 terabytes or 2 097 152 gigabytes or 2 147 483 648 megabytes or 2 199 023 255 552 kilobytes or 2 251 799 813 685 248 bytes. This is also written as 2^51 bytes or 2^41 kbytes or 2^31 megabytes or 2^21 gigabytes or 2^11 terrabytes or 2 petabytes.

This is roughtly 20 thousand 100 gig drives worth of storage.

Hope this helps. 🙂

 

[Need4Speed]

wow! I'll take two...there small 🙂

 

[DaFinn]

Uuhhh,

Way too big numbers there... makes you dizzy...


and I though my duallie is fast🙂

 

[Sunner]

Originally posted by: Hanpan

Originally posted by: fkloster

...and two petabytes of disk storage.

Petabytes? 😕

If I am not mistaken that is 2048 terabytes or 2 097 152 gigabytes or 2 147 483 648 megabytes or 2 199 023 255 552 kilobytes or 2 251 799 813 685 248 bytes. This is also written as 2^51 bytes or 2^41 kbytes or 2^31 megabytes or 2^21 gigabytes or 2^11 terrabytes or 2 petabytes.

This is roughtly 20 thousand 100 gig drives worth of storage.

Hope this helps. 🙂

Actually one petabyte is 1.024 terabytes, which is in turn 1.024 gigabytes, which is turn 1.024 megabytes, etc etc... 🙂

 

[DanFungus]

Originally posted by: Sunner

Originally posted by: Hanpan

Originally posted by: fkloster

...and two petabytes of disk storage.

Petabytes? 😕

If I am not mistaken that is 2048 terabytes or 2 097 152 gigabytes or 2 147 483 648 megabytes or 2 199 023 255 552 kilobytes or 2 251 799 813 685 248 bytes. This is also written as 2^51 bytes or 2^41 kbytes or 2^31 megabytes or 2^21 gigabytes or 2^11 terrabytes or 2 petabytes.

This is roughtly 20 thousand 100 gig drives worth of storage.

Hope this helps. 🙂

Actually one petabyte is 1.000 terabytes, which is in turn 1.000 gigabytes, which is turn 1.000 megabytes, etc etc... 🙂

It's simply one step up from tera in the base-10 chain.

I believe that's how the hard drives manufacturers label the drives, as 1000MB = 1GB, but in reality, it IS 1024MB = 1GB...1024GB = 1 Terabyte....1024 Terabytes = 1 Petabyte

 

[Sunner]

True dat, Im getting poisoned by the whole "mebi, gibi, blah" thing 🙁

Corrected my post.

 

[OulOat]

I bet UT2003 will run worse on this thing, considering it has no Video Card 🙂

 

[Serp86]

About .0005

Holy $hit

 

[Pariah]

Maybe it's just me, but I think this whole one upsmanship in the supercomputer sector is goofy. I mean, what exactly is the distinction between a supercomputer and a whole bunch of computers networked together in a room the size of Rhode Island? You wouldn't chain a bunch of pickup trucks together in a line and call it the world's highest towing capacity supertruck. Anyone know what the most powerful computer in a single box is?

 

[Adul]

Originally posted by: Pariah
Maybe it's just me, but I think this whole one upsmanship in the supercomputer sector is goofy. I mean, what exactly is the distinction between a supercomputer and a whole bunch of computers networked together in a room the size of Rhode Island? You wouldn't chain a bunch of pickup trucks together in a line and call it the world's highest towing capacity supertruck. Anyone know what the most powerful computer in a single box is?

you can not quite compare it that way.

 

[Pariah]

Why not?

 

[Hanpan]

Originally posted by: Sunner

Originally posted by: Hanpan

Originally posted by: fkloster

...and two petabytes of disk storage.

Petabytes? 😕

If I am not mistaken that is 2048 terabytes or 2 097 152 gigabytes or 2 147 483 648 megabytes or 2 199 023 255 552 kilobytes or 2 251 799 813 685 248 bytes. This is also written as 2^51 bytes or 2^41 kbytes or 2^31 megabytes or 2^21 gigabytes or 2^11 terrabytes or 2 petabytes.

This is roughtly 20 thousand 100 gig drives worth of storage.

Hope this helps. 🙂

Actually one petabyte is 1.024 terabytes, which is in turn 1.024 gigabytes, which is turn 1.024 megabytes, etc etc... 🙂

I never claimed it wasn't. The article however mentioned 2 petabytes and I was trying to give an idea of how much storage that really is.