Super supercomputers!

[OuTpaTienT]

Any of you people catch either of these stories? These machines have gotten to the point that I can't even fantasize about them because I'm incapable of even imagining that kind of power. This "Blue Gene" machine gives new meaning to the term "multi-processor":

Blue Gene will use 32 CPUs in a single chip...

...these chips will contain the computer memory as well...

A total of 64 of those 32-CPU chips will be packaged in a computing node...

...then 8 nodes will be stacked in each rack...

...64 of these racks will get IBM to its goal of a petaflop--

a quadrillion "floating-point" mathematical operations per second.

IBM to research proteins with supercomputer (http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-1480727.html)

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Then there's this one:

The new supercomputer likely will have 10,000 to 20,000 CPUs...

Compaq, nuclear lab teaming on supercomputer (http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-4534657.html?tag=st.ne.1003.saslnk.saseml)

[shady]

I wonder if they will run Quake3

[krusty the klown]

Got to take a long time overclocking all those CPUs http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

[FrozenLiquidity]

Similar to a machine a few years back that had lots of Intel Pentium CPUs working like that. I don't remember the specifics, but the cost was over 1 million. Neat

Hey OuTpaTienT, sign on to ICQ ok? And please respond to my post over in the SysOpt.Community, Mr. Ultimate Naming Wizard.

Thanx

FrozenLiquidity

Edit-> I don't think I can even fantasize about how much those machines would cost! http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/wink.gif

[This message has been edited by FrozenLiquidity (edited 01-25-2001).]

[Donkey]

Then there is the story of the americans fearing that the iraqi's were going to build a supercomputer with 4000 playstation 2's. http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/archive/15584.html



[This message has been edited by Donkey (edited 01-25-2001).]

[Wiruz]

RC5 Anyone?

[OuTpaTienT]

Please do caddman, I'd be interested to know about any AMD multi-processor machines.

Frozen, sorry I didn't catch your comments last night and I don't run ICQ here at work. In fact I don't normally run it at home either, but I keep it around just in case, and log on occasionally to check any messages. If you wanna try to catch me whenever I do log on to ICQ, then feel free to add me to your list (icq#13630275).

[FrozenLiquidity]

hehe, I already found your ICQ# at your Website. But thanks though.

I'll talk to you on ICQ some time.

FrozenLiquidity

[Wiruz]

As far as i could tell, the combined forces of the RC5 cracking crew is 13803095 Mflops3... Thats some 13,8 Teraflops... Right?

I wonder what the combined forces of all the worlds desktop/laptop computers are... wheew!

~Wiruz, The Digital Hippie

[jl123]

*drool*

http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif enuff said http://sysopt.earthweb.com/forum/smile.gif

~Joel