China claims supercomputer crown

[bJN]

Tianhe-1A is unusual in that it unites thousands of Intel processors with thousands of graphics cards made by Nvidia.

Now we know what happened to all the Fermi cards during launch week...

 

[franco_22]

Can you watch p0rn on it?

 

[asim18]

Can you watch p0rn on it?

Yes, but there's no vsync, so even a 4 hour 1080p porno will be zipped through in seconds.

 

[reiyushin]

Now we know what happened to all the Fermi cards during launch week...

This is actually China's plan to central heat the country during the winter.

 

[tntcoder]

A billion of these supercomputers would still take 10^40 ish years to crack a 256bit key, assuming the password was strong. I'd imagine they use it for physics or chemistry simulations.

Much more applicable to public-key cracking though i.e factoring numbers, which in many systems protect the exchange of the 256-bit symmetric keys. I bet it could munch through RSA keys quite nicely, certainly edging towards breaking 800+ bits in reasonable time. I'm sure it has much more innocent uses though

 

[Reldar]

Where's the build log? Pics please.

 

[iNPUt]

Where's the build log? Pics please.

 

[deadman29]

Where's the build log? Pics please.

heh would look funny to see an army of chinese workers building it piece by piece

 

[JPNUFC]

I want one!!!

 

[heezay]

But can it play farmville?

lol

 

[rush_syndrome]

Medical research, science stuff, outer space calculations
etc. yes I don't now the correct terms.

Counting their population??

 

[D.Roberts]

I want to see how it runs ARMA2.

 

[el Kuarlos]

Counting their population??

LOL

 

[jakspyder]

same D.Roberts! use that super computer as a 1000+ slot server?

 

[kalvindeane]

14000 CPU's, 7000 GPU's, but I bet it still uses a Sammy F3 1TB for a boot drive and a Logitech M518

 

[marcus_667]

Can it play..

Tetris?

Muhauahauhahaaaaa

Tetris is so unrealistic though

 

[milkinc13]

At last a coputer that can run....









VISTA! with all aero features turn upto max!

 

[silvercut]

i want one

 

[sanaxe1]

What are supercomputers actually used for i know the general uses of them but what specifically needs 2.5 thousand trillion calculations every second?

 

[tntcoder]

What are supercomputers actually used for i know the general uses of them but what specifically needs 2.5 thousand trillion calculations every second?

They are used for computationally/mathematically intensive algorithms, such as predicting weather patterns, cryptography, medicine or any other problem that needs extensive amount of numerical analysis. The trillions more calculations per second mean we can solve more problems (both bigger and faster).