The world's fastest computers

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Twice a year the operators of the world's fastest computers eagerly await their latest ranking compiled by the Top500 project. The chart is based on the maximum rate at which a computer can crunch numbers using what are called floating point operations. November's list has just been released: enjoy our gallery of the five fastest calculators on the planet.
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I wonder what the Super Pi and Crysis benchies would be like on these behemoths. :D

http://www.newscientist.com/gallery/dn18207-worlds-fastest-computers
 
Kraken has 100,000 dual-core Opteron processors made by AMD
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Woah.

Looks cool too.

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Hotwired said:
A desktop would beat them in Crysis.

What's Crysis going to do with a few hundred thousand processors?
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Number 5: Tianhe-1. The computer combines 6144 Intel processors with 5120 graphics processing units made by AMD, normally found in computer graphics cards. ;)
 
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Number 5: Tianhe-1. The computer combines 6144 Intel processors with 5120 graphics processing units made by AMD, normally found in computer graphics cards. ;)
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You don't seem to understand the problem. Crysis won't even run on a multi-cluster setup. No matter what hardware you have. Super computers != faster frame rates in Crysis.
 
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Number 5: Tianhe-1. The computer combines 6144 Intel processors with 5120 graphics processing units made by AMD, normally found in computer graphics cards. ;)
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For some reason i doubt crysis supports that many gfx cards :p
 
I reckon with few litres of as5 and some well placed fans I could push 2 petaflops with that no probs :)

MW
 
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