Worlds Fastest Computer

[Stiff_Cookie]

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/06/09/fastest.computer.ap/index.html

Thought this was interesting, its twice as fast as the previous fastest computer

 

[Viper²]

<The obligatory "overclock it" comment>

 

[Tom0]

For me it lost its shine at the sentence;

'In some ways, he said, it's "a very souped-up Sony PlayStation 3."'

Still very impressive though, makes you wonder how long if ever we'll have that technology at home. (The super computers power not a PS3 )

 

[aslco]

What fps does it get in crysis?

 

[cymatty]

To put the computer's speed in perspective, if every one of the 6 billion people on earth used a hand-held computer and worked 24 hours a day it would take them 46 years to do what the Roadrunner computer can do in a single day.

 

[GSXRMovistar]

To put the computer's speed in perspective, if every one of the 6 billion people on earth used a hand-held computer and worked 24 hours a day it would take them 46 years to do what the Roadrunner computer can do in a single day.

Cool stuff.

 

[Raymond Lin]

What kind of hand held computer thou?

Latest Dual core laptop or 1980's Casio Calculator ?

 

[dokko]

Not a patch on the average 360 tbh.






So America build a super computer to control their nukes while they insist Iran stop all Nuclear programmes.

 

[Stiff_Cookie]

its not to control the nukes, its to do simulated nuclear explosions and for other research like engineering

 

[dokko]

its not to control the nukes, its to do simulated nuclear explosions and for other research like engineering

That's what they tell you.

 

[SideWinder]

How are supercomputers controlled? A single monitor running special software?

 

[cymatty]

How are supercomputers controlled? A single monitor running special software?

15" CRT with PS2 Keyboard and mouse.

 

[Stiff_Cookie]

You need a really big monitor to control a really big computer. Its the only thing that makes sense. So I imagaine the monitor is about a mile square. and its kept underground

 

[SideWinder]

You need a really big monitor to control a really big computer. Its the only thing that makes sense. So I imagaine the monitor is about a mile square. and its kept underground

Makes sense - must have a lot of icons on the desktop but imagine the amazing wallpapers.

 

[Super_Sonic]

Sad that it's going to be mainly used for something destructive rather than constructive like finding the cure for some horrible diseases

 

[Hedge]

Sad that it's going to be mainly used for something destructive rather than constructive like finding the cure for some horrible diseases

surely computers dont cure diseases. cancer isnt just a bunch of 1s and 0s

 

[benneh]

You need a really big monitor to control a really big computer. Its the only thing that makes sense. So I imagaine the monitor is about a mile square. and its kept underground

And naturally Fisher Stevens and Penn Jillette will be sat at a giant backlit touch keyboard. Word.

 

[gillywibble]

Petaflop. Awesome word.

 

[jak731]

can we ask them to lend it to f@h team 10 for a while, so we can try to be the top team

 

[syke]

All that to browse OcUK, pah!