World's fastest computer simulates earth

[cmdavid]

sorry if its a repost, searched for "fast", "world", "japanese", "computer"... surprisingly couldnt find it....

drooooool.....

 

[her209]

And yet XP will still run slowly.

 

[HomeBrewerDude]

INteresting note:

Clusters of personal computers rank
For the first time, high-performance machines built by clustering personal computers appeared in the top 10.

A system built by Linux NetworX and Quadrics for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ranked No. 5. A system built by High Performance Technologies Inc. for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Forecast Systems Laboratory was No. 8.

 

[teddymines]

What ever happened to Cray? Growing up, it was always a mystical piece of bad art that was the fastest computer on earth. Don't they even rank anymore?

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

Look I can see my house!

There was another thread a little while ago stating that cray was about to retake the fastest comp title

 

[LukFilm]

And just think - 20 years from now everyone will have a computer like that on his/her desk :Q Or better yet, laptop...

 

[StrongBad]

I worked in the Pittsbugh Super Computer center one semester in college, and they had a bunch of Crays... the newest one (at the time) was all water cooled, and it had a uber l337 lcd display that just showed a little Cray symbol with some orbs going around it... they said the old version didn't have that and they only added it because it didn't look impressive enough without any display on the box itself.

 

[Kev]

I was hoping to find out more about this "earth simulator" but the article was only about supercomputers.

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

Originally posted by: her209
And yet XP will still run slowly.

I dunno WTF everybody's problem is about WinXP. I have WinXP Pro. It's faster than my Win2k and Win98 installs. It's also more stable. People are only bitching about WinXP because it's a MS product and they're too stupid to realize that MS makes great products. :|

nik

 

[cjchaps]

How many and what kind of PC's are in those uber-fast clusters?

 

[ChrisIsBored]

Yeah it would have been nice to know more about their copy of SimEarth and how well it's doing... I wonder what year they're up to.

 

[Chadder007]

Originally posted by: teddymines
What ever happened to Cray? Growing up, it was always a mystical piece of bad art that was the fastest computer on earth. Don't they even rank anymore?

BLING BLING!!!
CRAY Announcement!!

 

[silverpig]

Does SETI count as a supercomputer?

(45.65 TeraFLOPs/sec)

 

[silverpig]

Originally posted by: Chadder007

Originally posted by: teddymines
What ever happened to Cray? Growing up, it was always a mystical piece of bad art that was the fastest computer on earth. Don't they even rank anymore?

BLING BLING!!!
CRAY Announcement!!

Heh, good timing.

Only $2.5 mil too.

 

[Evadman]

Originally posted by: silverpig
Does SETI count as a supercomputer?

(45.65 TeraFLOPs/sec)

If it does, we got everyone own3d.

 

[jman19]

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Originally posted by: her209
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I dunno WTF everybody's problem is about WinXP. I have WinXP Pro. It's faster than my Win2k and Win98 installs. It's also more stable. People are only bitching about WinXP because it's a MS product and they're too stupid to realize that MS makes great products.

nik

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hmm

 

[Yomicron]

Originally posted by: silverpig
Does SETI count as a supercomputer?

(45.65 TeraFLOPs/sec)

45.65 Trillion floating operations per second per second, thas some inpressive accleration.


EDIT: from the Seti@home FAQ:

SETI@home currently gets about 15 TeraFLOPs

 

[silverpig]

Originally posted by: Yomicron

Originally posted by: silverpig
Does SETI count as a supercomputer?

(45.65 TeraFLOPs/sec)

45.65 Trillion floating operations per second per second, thas some inpressive accleration.

Uh, you got that wrong. A FLOP is a floating point operation. Not a floating point operation per second...

n 1: an arithmetic operation performed on floating-point numbers; "this computer can perform a million flops per second" [syn: floating-point operation]

 

[Yomicron]

Originally posted by: silverpig

Originally posted by: Yomicron

Originally posted by: silverpig
Does SETI count as a supercomputer?

(45.65 TeraFLOPs/sec)

45.65 Trillion floating operations per second per second, thas some inpressive accleration.

Uh, you got that wrong. A FLOP is a floating point operation. Not a floating point operation per second...

n 1: an arithmetic operation performed on floating-point numbers; "this computer can perform a million flops per second" [syn: floating-point operation]

and a flops is floating point operations per second.
ie. this machine can perform 1 flops

 

[Bignate603]

That actually is pretty interesting that SETI is using more computing power then the world's most powerful system.

 

[silverpig]

Originally posted by: Yomicron

Originally posted by: silverpig

Originally posted by: Yomicron

Originally posted by: silverpig
Does SETI count as a supercomputer?

(45.65 TeraFLOPs/sec)

45.65 Trillion floating operations per second per second, thas some inpressive accleration.

Uh, you got that wrong. A FLOP is a floating point operation. Not a floating point operation per second...

n 1: an arithmetic operation performed on floating-point numbers; "this computer can perform a million flops per second" [syn: floating-point operation]

and a flops is floating point operations per second.
ie. this machine can perform 1 flops

FLOP

FLOP is an abbreviation for FLoating point OPeration

FLOPS

FLOPS is an abbreviation for FLoating-point OPerations per Second

My quote said FLOPs not FLOPS

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[silverpig]

Originally posted by: Yomicron

Originally posted by: silverpig
Does SETI count as a supercomputer?

(45.65 TeraFLOPs/sec)

45.65 Trillion floating operations per second per second, thas some inpressive accleration.


EDIT: from the Seti@home FAQ:

SETI@home currently gets about 15 TeraFLOPs

That FAQ is way outdated. It's copyright 2000, and mentions the world's fastest supercomputer being ASCI White at 12 TFLOPS.

From their totals page is where I got 45.65 FLOPS/sec

 

[Squisher]

Originally posted by: ffmcobalt

Originally posted by: her209
And yet XP will still run slowly.

I dunno WTF everybody's problem is about WinXP. I have WinXP Pro. It's faster than my Win2k and Win98 installs. It's also more stable. People are only bitching about WinXP because it's a MS product and they're too stupid to realize that MS makes great products. :|

nik

I agree

 

[Vic]

Originally posted by: Chadder007

Originally posted by: teddymines
What ever happened to Cray? Growing up, it was always a mystical piece of bad art that was the fastest computer on earth. Don't they even rank anymore?

BLING BLING!!!
CRAY Announcement!!

From announcement:

The new product is available with up to 52.4 trillion calculations per second (teraflops) of peak computing power and 65.5 terabytes of memory. U.S. list pricing starts at about $2.5 million.

:Q :Q :Q
Just for reference, the new 3.06GHz P4 w/HT enabled runs right at 6 megaflops SSE2.