US Gov't unveils world's fastest supercomputer

[networkman]

Codename: Roadrunner

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/0...computer.ap/index.html

"To put the computer's speed in perspective, if every one of the 6 billion people on earth used a hand-held computer and worked 24 hours a day it would take them 46 years to do what the Roadrunner computer can do in a single day."

 

[Alyx]

Amazingly fast.

I think its more amazing that Stanford is nearing the two petaflop mark, twice as fast as this machine. And they've achieved this speed without spending the $100 million that the government spent. Its also curious that they said the machine was basically a souped up PS3 and that most of the F@H flops come from the PS3 client.

 

[networkman]

I'm not aware of what Stanford is doing. Link?

 

[snowdogg187]

Hey networkman,

I haven't talked to you in quite awhile. I remember when you came to Minnesota for a LAN party in like 2000 though.

this is a interesting story but how many say normal processors does this thing equal?

 

[Markfw]

well, the other link in the cpu forum , shows the number of Opteron processors it uses (AMD, must be opteron) abd cell processors. I will post back here once I check the link and edit.

From ther other article:

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.

 

[Alyx]

Originally posted by: networkman
I'm not aware of what Stanford is doing. Link?

Folding@Home

 

[biodoc]

For a $100 million, they could have bought nearly 300,000 PS3's and set up their own secure DC network.:laugh:

Among other things, they will be "simulating" nuclear explosions. Perhaps they should set up a DC project and call it "big_boom@home".

:beer:

 

[networkman]

Originally posted by: snowdogg187
Hey networkman,

I haven't talked to you in quite awhile. I remember when you came to Minnesota for a LAN party in like 2000 though.

this is a interesting story but how many say normal processors does this thing equal?

Yep - that's me! Drove all the way from Grand Rapids, Michigan to the Twin Cities in Minnesota just for a LAN party on the weekend!

Ah - those were the days.

 

[GenHoth]

Originally posted by: biodoc
For a $100 million, they could have bought nearly 300,000 PS3's and set up their own secure DC network.:laugh:

Among other things, they will be "simulating" nuclear explosions. Perhaps they should set up a DC project and call it "big_boom@home".

:beer:

I'd crunch Big_Boom@home, that would be a sweet project!

 

[Alyx]

Originally posted by: GenHoth

Originally posted by: biodoc
For a $100 million, they could have bought nearly 300,000 PS3's and set up their own secure DC network.:laugh:

Among other things, they will be "simulating" nuclear explosions. Perhaps they should set up a DC project and call it "big_boom@home".

:beer:

I'd crunch Big_Boom@home, that would be a sweet project!

What do you think the graphical screen saver would look like!

 

[Assimilator1]

Amazing super-computer! , I wonder how much electricity that thing uses!:shocked:

Originally posted by: biodoc
For a $100 million, they could have bought nearly 300,000 PS3's and set up their own secure DC network.:laugh:

Among other things, they will be "simulating" nuclear explosions. Perhaps they should set up a DC project and call it "big_boom@home".

:beer:

lol

 

[TallBill]

If I was Oprah, I'd build one of these and dominate the DC world.

 

[bryanW1995]

Originally posted by: Assimilator1
Amazing super-computer! , I wonder how much electricity that thing uses!:shocked:

Originally posted by: biodoc
For a $100 million, they could have bought nearly 300,000 PS3's and set up their own secure DC network.:laugh:

Among other things, they will be "simulating" nuclear explosions. Perhaps they should set up a DC project and call it "big_boom@home".

:beer:

lol

3 megawatts. I did the math in my head last night (yes I'm insane). Figuring 10c/kwh, that would cost about $225,000/year just to power it...

 

[Alyx]

Originally posted by: TallBill
If I was Oprah, I'd build one of these and dominate the DC world.

If you moved the entire machine to a project you'd probably bring it down from a DOS attack. To much to compute.

 

[bryanW1995]

both seti and f@h handle a LOT of traffic. I'll bet that they could both deal with it, but they'd need to be warned first.

 

[Assimilator1]

3MW ,it could use its own power station!

Originally posted by: Alyx

Originally posted by: TallBill
If I was Oprah, I'd build one of these and dominate the DC world.

If you moved the entire machine to a project you'd probably bring it down from a DOS attack. To much to compute.

lol

 

[bryanW1995]

either that or petrus could put it in his basement!

 

[Foxery]

Still a bargain compared to setting off real bombs. And being the military, yeah, they probably have their own power plant nearby

Folding@Home has been run (briefly) on some large CPU clusters as a proof of concept. A year or two back, some large research lab racked up a few million points over one weekend when their resident supercomputer was free.