Computer Hope
Other => Other => Topic started by: harry 48 on November 11, 2010, 04:56:00 PM
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World’s fastest supercomputer belongs to China
“A computer called Tianhe-1A, unveiled on Wednesday at a conference in Beijing, China, can run calculations faster than the previous speed leader, a computer at a U.S. lab in Tennessee.
The new computer set a performance record by crunching 2.507 petaflops of data at once. The previous leader, a computer called Cray XT5 Jaguar and located at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, completed 1.75 petaflop calculations.
Analysts say the new record underscores China’s place as a global tech leader.
According to Nvidia, the computer technology company, the world’s fastest computer will be operated as an open access system and will be used for large scale scientific computations.”
World’s fastest supercomputer belongs to China
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I think this had a lot to do with the US easing restrictions on electronics exports.
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The only reason they can claim this is because our Defense Department never let's you know what they really have developed...
Let em brag i say,
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That could be just a few hundred servers in a DC!
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give the chinese credit for it ::)
how big is 2.507 petaflops in every day terms that the ordinary person would understand
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how big is 2.507 petaflops in every day terms that the ordinary person would understand
The supercomputer uses 7,168 NVIDIA Tesla M2050 GPUs (graphics processing units) and 14,336 Intel Xeon CPUs and is capable of clocking 2.507 petaflops or 2,507 trillion floating point calculations per second.
Now that's a PC. Takes 12 mW of power to run it. What a waste.
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how big is 2.507 petaflops in every day terms that the ordinary person would understand
"how big" is a big disingenuous. petaflops don't measure a size, it measures a speed. asking how big 2.507 petaflops is is like asking how big 45 km/h is. Doesn't make a whole lot of sense.
Ignoring that minor inconsistency, 2.507 petaflops= 2507000000000000 Floating Point Instructions per second (oversimplified: math problems per second)
give the chinese credit for it ::)
Credit for what? It's not like they built/engineered it themselves. If anybody should get credit it should be the engineers at Nvidia, Intel, and whatever other technology firms were involved in the hardware; most of which aren't in China.
Additionally as kpac touched on lightly there, Distributed Computing has a lot more power available to it; just the x86 clients for F&H amount to about 6.2PetaFLOPs.
Now that's a PC. Takes 12 mW of power to run it. What a waste.
12 milliwatts isn't that much power! Obviously though you meant MW.
edit: fixed quoting.
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12 milliwatts isn't that much power! Obviously though you meant MW.
S***! Yes, megawatts.
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i thought petaflops was the upper end of the mw scale , us oldies ::) ;D
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Personally i completely disagree with the statement in the Topic itself as it's nebulous.
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Personally i completely disagree with the statement in the Topic itself as it's nebulous.
is nebulous not the brother of Romulus and Remus ? ;)
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Uncle Remus ? ?
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no not uncle ;D
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Uncle Remus ? ?
I just thought that perhaps you were a Zappa fan...
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I just thought that perhaps you were a Zappa fan...
no,no,no ;D