New Petaflop computer

[mrapoc]

Supercomputer sets petaflop pace

A supercomputer built with components designed for the Sony PlayStation 3 has set a new computing milestone.

The IBM machine, codenamed Roadrunner, has been shown to run at "petaflop speeds", the equivalent of one thousand trillion calculations per second.

The benchmark means the computer is twice as nimble as the current world's fastest machine, also built by IBM.

Phoar - Wouldn't mind one myself really :yumyum:



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[Youngie1337]

/DOES CRYSIS BENCHMARK

Average FPS: 2

 

[SwaleSmith]

LOl crysis average FPS 900,000fps LOL

 

[°TheMadDutchDude°]

If anyone had access to that, surely they would want to try a couple of benchmarks?

 

[Rastalovich]

Only a foo wouldn't run atleast a PI calculation

I admire server related rooms that are spacial, good cable organization and bright.

 

[zak4994]

Well I want to see it run 3 games at the same time.

And I bet you it doesn't need a dedicated GPU 'cos it uses all that CPU power to replace it.

 

[SwaleSmith]

LOl super Pi in 0.0001 sec LOL

 

[gotmaxpower]

What's it actually used for?

 

[JN]

What's it actually used for?

IBM e-peen

 

[Diablo]

Nope, they just wanted to run crysis at a decent FPS on their new 30" monitor with anti aliasing...totally justified if you ask me.

 

[JN]

Nope, they just wanted to run crysis at a decent FPS on their new 30" monitor with anti aliasing...totally justified if you ask me.

You need three of those in Tri-SLI for that

 

[SwaleSmith]

You need three of those in Tri-SLI for that

even that struggles at times .....SLI scaleing

 

[nathan]

lol, you bunch of geeks!

 

[mrapoc]

Any chance of getting one in for a review Jim?

 

[monkey7]

I guess shipment's a bit expensive :+

 

[w3bbo]

No side window = fail

 

[JN]

Any chance of getting one in for a review Jim?

ROFL yeah, I'm gonna push IBM to let us keep it after as well for "future comparisons".

No side window = fail

Air cooling too....bloody n00bs.

 

[Diablo]

I'm pretty sure I just saw a faster one on ebay..."ZOMG wow...L@@k!!!!! Fastest computer eva...has dual core celeron processor...wow play games dead good"

I'm afraid if you believe the marketing, most cmoputers on ebay may well be better

 

[fruityness]

What's it actually used for?

They use these types of computers for weather modelling, protein folding, scientific research, and the US dept. Defence even has one 'monitoring' their nuclear weapons arsenal.