Posted on 06/09/2008 3:01:55 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
An American military supercomputer, assembled from components originally designed for video game machines, has reached a long-sought-after computing milestone by processing more than 1.026 quadrillion calculations per second.
...To put the performance of the machine in perspective, Thomas P. D’Agostino, the administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration, said that if all six billion people on earth used hand calculators and performed calculations 24 hours a day and seven days a week, it would take them 46 years to do what the Roadrunner can in one day.
...The Roadrunner is based on a radical design that includes 12,960 chips that are an improved version of an I.B.M. Cell microprocessor, a parallel processing chip originally created for Sony’s PlayStation 3 video-game machine. The Sony chips are used as accelerators, or turbochargers, for portions of calculations.
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Waiting for moonbats to claim that our super-computing is clearly a sign of aggression against poor countries that can’t super-compute so well....
or the enviromentalist wackos will demand to know what it’s carbon footprint is?
lmao
Waiting for the Mac & Apple folks to drop by and tell us that their current O/S is much faster and more stable. Heh.
The Windows O/S folks are reloading software, and they’ll be along later tonite...
is it moonbattery to think they might use this thing to profile my emails in the not too distant future?
Yes. Profiling emails won’t require a supercomputer.
that makes me feel a whole lot better /sarc
You could encrypt your e-mails, if your privacy is important enough to you. Of course, that requires you to assume that the cipher is not possessed by “them.”
Good thread for a “folding” ping.
Maybe congress can use it to figure how to get their heads out of their asses.
More silicone than Pamella Anderson......
And let’s not even think about what havoc the dems would wreak with it...
But can it run Firefox?
Maybe this thing is even fast enough to run Vista.
I am impressed tht it was assembled from parts meant for game machines.
I’d be even more impressed if it was made with used pinball machine parts.
Yes it is, they'll use your computer, and your ISP’s servers for all that work. They'll just require the report.
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