What's the current fastest commercially available supercomputer?

[glenn1]

Title pretty much sums my question... i'm speaking of something commercially available (i.e. that you could actually buy if you had a few spare millions lying around), not some one of a kind deal which only one ever got made of for the NSA or something...

 

[cmdrdredd]

well, Supercomputers are classified by teraflops correct? Apple's G4 systems are under this classification. I'm not sure of professional systems by Sun, or other manufacturers.

 

[Lucky]

IMB SP?

Or a variation of it.

 

[Lucky]

Look here

lists the top 500 fastest supercomputers.

 

[Rand]

Originally posted by: cmdrdredd
well, Supercomputers are classified by teraflops correct? Apple's G4 systems are under this classification.

The G4 is a supercomputer in Apple's dreams, that's about it.
Marketing hype- the G4 is in no way shape or form a supercomputer.

Off-hand the most powerful supercomputer that I'm aware of is the ASCI White, based around the IBM RS6000 Power 3 processors.

Thats not exactly commercially available though.
Check around with HP, IBM and Cray... probably something by one of the three.

Variations on HP's AlphaServer SC ES45 is the most powerful commercial supercomputer that I'm aware of, though it's hardly an "off the shelf" item obviously.

 

[CrazySaint]

I wonder what kind of FPS you could get on Doom III with the ASCI White

 

[Budman]

Originally posted by: CrazySaint
I wonder what kind of FPS you could get on Doom III with the ASCI White

That would all depend on the video card used.

 

[AShadeOfClear]

how many teraflops is an athlon xp 1900+?