New US supercomputer, fastest in the world.

[Death.Trap]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3983131.stm

That's insane. I wanna know when my desktops gonna be able to do that :hmph:

 

[Ames]

In about 20 years....

edit: The Cray-1 supercomputer in 1976 had a speed of about 130 megaflops. That was 28 years ago. My P4 3.06 has a speed of 287.35 (whoops hehe...not 500)Mflops. A quick guesstimation...and that's what I get.

 

[Burn]

Blue Gene/L has managed speeds of 70.72 teraflops.

Whoa, teraflops!

 

[Sulkdodds]

Just wait till they invent Quantum computing. Only a matter of time. What will they think of next? A computer that runs on toothpaste and does five miles to the gallon, that's what.

And that's a lot of toothpaste.

 

[kaf11]

great scott! 1.21 gigawatts!!

 

[Death.Trap]

great scott! 1.21 gigawatts!!

Is that how much power it uses?

 

[Dem0nEgg]

So, when does it become self-aware?

 

[RRunner]

So hl2 is only limited grafik wise by hardware.....i would like to play hl2 on this baby

 

[outpost]

It still won't be able to run Unreal 3.

 

[Death.Trap]

So, when does it become self-aware?

"The engineers working on the development of BlueGene/L say that Blue is expected to be computing at1,000 trillion calculations per second by 2006, and become self-aware by 2008"




Actually, the really do say that it will be computing 1,000 trillion calculations per second by 2006. Thats one petaflop.

 

[Death.Trap]

It still won't be able to run Unreal 3.

Please tell me your being sarcastic..please?

 

[Prince of China]

I would like to play: Half-Life 2, Halo 2 PC, Prince of Persia: Warrior Within and Unreal Tournament 2004 on this thing.

 

[Tr0n]

10chariahfiu

Well...we are screwed.

 

[Ames]

Whoa, when did you change your name......?

 

[Tr0n]

I would like to play: Half-Life 2, Halo 2 PC, Prince of Persia: Warrior Within and Unreal Tournament 2004 on this thing.

Tred you bastard...You shouldn't have changed your name. :|

 

[Prince of China]

No one really cares about what I change my name to.

 

[Tr0n]

Well...I'm still gonna call you Tred...

 

[Prince of China]

Okay.
:|

 

[CrazyHarij]

That's one hell of a flop!

 

[PvtRyan]

Please tell me your being sarcastic..please?

No. I can guarantee you that this computer is not able to run Unreal 3. First of all, it doesn't have a graphics card, second, it has it's own special OS and third, Unreal 3 has not been designed for multiprocessing nor is the OS designed for programs like Unreal 3.

So neh!

 

[Death.Trap]

No. I can guarantee you that this computer is not able to run Unreal 3. First of all, it doesn't have a graphics card, second, it has it's own special OS and third, Unreal 3 has not been designed for multiprocessing nor is the OS designed for programs like Unreal 3.

So neh!

lmao

Ok, you got meh.