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[chriso_86]

images/news/ibm.jpgRoadrunner? Pfff, your chart-topping 1.105 petaflops are laughable. IBM just announced its 20-freaking-petaflop Sequoia supercomputer due for delivery by 2012. While supercomputer speeds have steadily increased year-over-year, a near 20x jump in calculations per second since the last world ranking is unheard of, even if the system has yet to come on-line. Slated to spend its life simulating nuclear explosions, Sequoia will use 45-nm (PowerPC, presumably) processors with 16 cores per chip for as many as 4,096 processors per rack. That's a total of 1.6 million cores assisted by 1.6 petabytes of memory. Perhaps all this processing power might help IBM understand the futility of its Lotus Notes strategy.

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[stormrosson]

damn!!!!!!!!!

[chriso_86]

Works good, but I need one of those bad boys instead of my little old thinkpad!! Just think of how high my productivity could go!!!

[hog]

chriso_86, on Feb 3 2009, 07:26 PM, said:

Works good, but I need one of those bad boys instead of my little old thinkpad!! Just think of how high my productivity could go!!!

lol, productivity would go to the trash and games would take its place.

But hey, long time no see!


And they say this is due in 2012, that's 3 years away, there will probably be some new record before then and that IBM one won't be 20x more powerful then the record holder when it comes to life. Oh and for those nuclear explosions calculations, how many nuclear plants will it take?

[Tweak]

All that computing and I still don't know the price of rice in China.