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.