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Supercomputing

Post by Pigeon » Sat Nov 26, 2016 2:38 am

Japan is reportedly planning to build a 130-petaflops supercomputer costing $173 million (£131 million) that is due for completion next year.

According to the Top 500 site listing the world's fastest computers, the current number-crunching champ is China's 93-petaflops Sunway TaihuLight, followed by its Tianhe-2, coming in at 34 petaflops. Japan's most powerful system at the moment is a 13.5 petaflops machine. Overall, Japan has the fourth-largest number of supercomputers in the Top 500 listing, after the US, China, and Germany.

top 500 list

Top US iat number 3, a Cray XK7 with 560,640 cores

3 DOE/SC/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
United States Titan - Cray XK7 , Opteron 6274 16C 2.200GHz, Cray Gemini interconnect, NVIDIA K20x
Cray Inc.

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I'm using a box with 4 cores. If I get another 141,000 of these...

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Re: Supercomputing

Post by Royal » Sat Nov 26, 2016 2:48 am

And what do people do with these super computers and how is this strategically a smart move to say what processing power a country really has?

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Re: Supercomputing

Post by Pigeon » Sat Nov 26, 2016 2:49 am

I wonder what the NSA actually has hidden away.

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Re: Supercomputing

Post by Royal » Sat Nov 26, 2016 2:51 am

Pigeon wrote:I wonder what the NSA actually has hidden away.
What about Bill Gates?

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Re: Supercomputing

Post by Pigeon » Sat Nov 26, 2016 2:54 am

NSA Utah Data Center

The Cray XC30 is a massively parallel multiprocessor supercomputer manufactured by Cray. It consists of Intel Xeon processors, with optional Nvidia Tesla or Xeon Phi accelerators, connected together by Cray's proprietary "Aries" interconnect, stored in air-cooled or liquid-cooled cabinets. Each liquid-cooled cabinet can contain up to 48 blades, each with eight CPU sockets, and uses 90 kW of power. The XC series supercomputers are available with the Cray DataWarp applications I/O accelerator technology.

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Re: Supercomputing

Post by Pigeon » Sat Nov 26, 2016 2:55 am

What about Bill Gates?
Bill uses a Mac

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Re: Supercomputing

Post by Royal » Sat Nov 26, 2016 2:56 am

Supercomputer porn.

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Re: Supercomputing

Post by Pigeon » Sat Nov 26, 2016 2:58 am

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We're from Best Buy. We haz your computer. Were do we put it?

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Re: Supercomputing

Post by Pigeon » Sat Nov 26, 2016 3:01 am

I use my super computer from Solitaire.

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Re: Supercomputing

Post by Pigeon » Sat Nov 26, 2016 3:02 am

Flight simulator with 150,000 planes...

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