Break the supercomputer processing record

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I was contacted by another forum trying to get everyone organised into assembling a large enough amount of processing power to outdo the worlds largest supercomputers


Since this is an overclocking forum I figure there must be enough WMD lying unused here to make it worth mentioning

Heres the link

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=249459

& this is the 5 min instructions to install the utility, you dont have to change your screensaver just have it ready for May

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=230613


If you can install it ready now for the start of May I think globally people can combine to form enough power to outdo a supercomputer no problem.


This is Nasa's main Columbia computer

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That's not one computer. Why is it such a tiny datacentre?


No its all about parallel processing. The days of one giant chip doing everything are long gone afaik.

So whether the power is one room like Nasa or across the world like this guy is trying to organise doesnt matter



Isnt this exactly the same as SETI and that cancer research program? Just wondering what the point of installing this software is.


The point is to get the highest amount of power recorded then before. So to me that means including ordinary guys with plain old quad cores or I have a dual myself who dont normally run SETI.

I usually have my computer doing something else but for one week Im prepared to see if we can break this record and get some guy at Nasa whistling at how we just made his million dollar computer look slow
 
Pretty much and mainly for the XS forum group, which might put many of the other WGC's like the OcUK seti group off.

KaHn



Its just a one off attempt for a week. The normal intra-forum wars can continue just after anyway I think this more about how many normal users computers can contribute rather then just the big guns
 
I agree having it all available realtime is probably what Nasa needs to have on hand but I think this project could beat them on processing power



The challenge would be in finding an actual super computer, such as IBM's "Watson", and see how many PCs it would take to match it.


This was part of the email I got. Seems a reasonable aim, as well as that I think they could set a new record if various forums were to join in just for this 1 week but that will be harder to do

For one week--from Saturday, May 1 to Saturday, May 8--try and bring everyone in the forum onto our WCG team and see what we can show for computational power. We're aiming big here: match the worlds top supercomputers.
 
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