News: Supercomputer doubles own record

[Frisch]

The Blue Gene/L supercomputer has broken its own record to achieve more than double the number of calculations it can do a second.
It reached 280.6 teraflops - that is 280.6 trillion calculations a second.
Blue Gene/L (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4386404.stm)

[WesM63]

The real question is.. can it crunch!!

Someone borg it quick!!

[eva2000]

woah... nice

funny thing is in 5-15yrs time our children will have calculators or portable pda devices that probably do as many calculations LOL

[[XC] leviathan18]

280 teraflops i guess you can kick some asses crunching with that beast we need one for the d2ol team asap

[Qkjhfhaiguihfma]

280 teraflops i guess you can kick some asses crunching with that beast we need one for the d2ol team asap


i dont think you realize how much that thing would kill in something like crunching, etc.

it wouldnt even be funny how much work it did

[Frisch]

You can ask, and solve some serious complicated questions.

[Vapor]

Actually, Blue Gene wouldn't THAT good....it pretty much isn't great at much other than the benchmark that Top 500 list uses. In real world, it 'only' manages ~120TFlops, depending on the application. It'd still get us over the cows in a matter of days though ;)

[Hicks]

Awesome Avatar man lol!, sweet! :)

[Qkjhfhaiguihfma]

Actually, Blue Gene wouldn't THAT good....it pretty much isn't great at much other than the benchmark that Top 500 list uses. In real world, it 'only' manages ~120TFlops, depending on the application. It'd still get us over the cows in a matter of days though ;)


i hope you meant hours...

[Cossey]

it would be days as the stats server would have a fit trying to upload a million candidates in a few hours.

[Vapor]

Crazy name....I meant days (didn't even think about Cossey's reason, but that's also another reason why it would take more than a few hours).