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It’s official: Oak Ridge has fastest computer
Knoxville News Sentinel ^
| 7-2-18
| Jim Gaines
Posted on 07/02/2018 8:23:36 AM PDT by deoetdoctrinae
Oak Ridge’s Summit supercomputer, designed to reclaim the title “world’s fastest,” has officially done so.
The designation came Tuesday at the ISC High Performance conference in Frankfurt, Germany, according to a news release from Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Eight times more powerful than its predecessor, Titan, the Summit supercomputer reclaims the title from China’s Sunway TaihuLight.
(Excerpt) Read more at knoxvillenews.tn.newsmemory.com ...
TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: computer; maga; oakridge; ornl; summit
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The article stated that during a test, the Summit computer reached 122.3 petaflops. That's PDF (pretty dang fast).
To: dayglored; ShadowAce; Swordmaker
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posted on
07/02/2018 8:25:33 AM PDT
by
deoetdoctrinae
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To: deoetdoctrinae
Something that can adequately host lotus notes?
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posted on
07/02/2018 8:26:52 AM PDT
by
wally_bert
(Just who are you? The Archduke of Guacamole?)
To: wally_bert
I'm thinking it could do it with a little room to spare.
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posted on
07/02/2018 8:34:08 AM PDT
by
deoetdoctrinae
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To: deoetdoctrinae
Back when I used to drink moonshine, I could flop that fast all over the floor....
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posted on
07/02/2018 8:34:28 AM PDT
by
JBW1949
(I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
To: deoetdoctrinae
Let’s hear it for the Oak Ridge Boys!
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posted on
07/02/2018 8:34:33 AM PDT
by
Mastador1
(I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
To: deoetdoctrinae
To: wally_bert
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posted on
07/02/2018 8:35:25 AM PDT
by
TheZMan
(I am a secessionist.)
To: deoetdoctrinae
122 petaflops
Ok, but then why are they all hanging around downtown Los Angeles?
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posted on
07/02/2018 8:36:49 AM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(01/26/18 DJIA 30 stocks $26,616.71 48.794% > open 11/07/16 215.71 from 50% increase 1.2183 yrs..)
To: JBW1949
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posted on
07/02/2018 8:37:05 AM PDT
by
deoetdoctrinae
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To: deoetdoctrinae
In over three decades of working with computers on the job, I have learned one incontrovertible fact:
Every time advancing technology doubles the speed of your computer, your bosses are going to quadruple the number of reports they expect out of it.
To: deoetdoctrinae
The IBM PC (5150): The simplest configuration had 16K on-board RAM, used an audio cassette to load and save data - the floppy drive was optional, and a hard drive was not supported. Extra ram (64K, 128K and 256K) could be added. It used an Intel 8088 microprocessor with an 8bit external bus (16bit internal) running at 4.77Mhz.
To: deoetdoctrinae
I suppose the news made Cray a little cra-cra...
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posted on
07/02/2018 8:38:46 AM PDT
by
rjsimmon
(The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
To: HangnJudge
Thanks for the additional links. Good info.
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posted on
07/02/2018 8:38:50 AM PDT
by
deoetdoctrinae
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To: deoetdoctrinae
Does it using Windows 10?
To: deoetdoctrinae
Shoot, did any a Y’all notice there wern’t no ‘Merican names in that whole list!
Let’s hear it for our government school system!
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posted on
07/02/2018 8:40:26 AM PDT
by
Dracomeister
(The older I get the less I care about what other people think.)
To: rjsimmon
LOL, probably so. The previous fastest at Oak Ridge (Titan) is a Cray, and it’s still fourth fastest in the world.
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posted on
07/02/2018 8:42:19 AM PDT
by
deoetdoctrinae
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To: deoetdoctrinae
Check it out.
Not only is "Summit" significantly faster than "Sunway TaihuLight", it gets there with about 1/5 as many cores and just over half as much power.
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posted on
07/02/2018 8:43:00 AM PDT
by
NorthMountain
(... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
To: minnesota_bound
According to the article,
It runs a standard Linux operating system from Red Hat in Red Hat Enterprise Linux.Microsoft? We don't need no stinkin Microsoft.
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posted on
07/02/2018 8:45:16 AM PDT
by
deoetdoctrinae
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To: wally_bert
Something that can adequately host lotus notes?
...
It’s massively parallel, so probably not.
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posted on
07/02/2018 8:46:56 AM PDT
by
Moonman62
(Give a man a fish and he'll be a Democrat. Teach a man to fish and he'll be a responsible citizen.)
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