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[Neon]

IBM's Blue Gene/L supercomputer has kept its position as the most powerful number cruncher in the world.
Its hold on the top slot was revealed in the latest list of the Top 500 supercomputers on Earth.

Blue Gene/L was top of the biannually produced list because in June 2005 it set a new world record performance of 280.6 trillion calculations per second.

It could head supercomputer rankings for a while as it has still not reached its maximum possible performance.

THAT is some power for a CPU

[BlueScreenOfDeath]

i read somewhere that a new computer in the works by Japan, would be able to double the performance of the Blue Gene/L

[Neon]

How many years till we see that on our desktops?

[ShadowFox]

That'd be nice I can't wait till something that powerful is sitting in my living room... in the mean time, I'm going to try to MAKE my living room one of those

Any Ideas on how to properly set up a supercomputer?

Damn double post

Edited by ShadowFox, 14 November 2005 - 02:39 PM.

[RedInferno]

First, you need a lot of money shadow

[ShadowFox]

heh or a LOT og guilability

[RedInferno]

LOL, I knew it was a joke....

SUch a system would HAVE to be unix based, I doubt M$ can handle that many processors at once

[gamer_pro_2000]

IBM has some of the coolest stuff one the face of the planet. What I would do with an IBM supercomputer........

[RedInferno]

Except IBM's regular computers are overpriced

[Visentinel]

Hmmm my computer is a SuperComputer

Ahhhh How long ya's reckon it'd take to pack that much computer power into a single Multi-core CPU ?

[ShadowFox]

1 trillion years

Naa, in all seriousness umm probably less than 100 years

it's probably just around the corner

Funny isn't it, when computers started out they were so expensive barely anyone could afford them... looks like they are heading BACK that direction to me

[BlueScreenOfDeath]

well with nano technology on the radar... probably bout 20 years before we're runnin multi gigaflop and teraflop cpus

[Nvyseal]

BlueScreenOfDeath, on Nov 15 2005, 01:16 PM, said:

well with nano technology on the radar... probably bout 20 years before we're runnin multi gigaflop and teraflop cpus

LOL! People aren't even switching to 64bit, what makes you thing their going to jump on the banwagon with that?

[stevenaxe]

simple, they won't give them a choice...soon enough, every computer you buy is going to be 64 bit, why should they keep processing two kinds? wouldn't it be cheaper and easier to develop one type of product (generally speaking)

[Visentinel]

Well Actually x86-64 is a Single type CPU =P

Pure 64bit might take a few more years.