New fastest supercomputer

[andymorton]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/oct/28/china-tianhe-1a-fastest-supercomputer


andy
:)

[foxmulder881]

Is this part of China's ongoing attempt of taking over the world! :popcorn:

[Spice Weasel]

Is this part of China's ongoing attempt of taking over the world! :popcorn:

Not funny.

[cascade9]

Is this part of China's ongoing attempt of taking over the world! :popcorn:

Probably. IIRC, there is a cyberwarfare centre in the Tianjin National University of Defence Technology, though its more likely that this new setup will be used to simulate nukes.

[Grenage]

Is this part of China's ongoing attempt of taking over the world! :popcorn:

Attempt? They already own us all economically, and economy is all that matters.

Impressive bit of kit!

[robsoles]

Wouldn't mind a good peek and poke around that one!

[linux-hack]

Attempt? They already own us all economically, and economy is all that matters.

Impressive bit of kit!

Well now they'll own us in cyberworld too :-k

[nlsthzn]

The internet laughs at so-called super powers and their little super computers:


PetaFLOPS milestones

Native petaFLOPS Barrier Date Crossed 1.0 September 16, 2007 2.0 early May 2008 3.0 August 20, 2008 4.0 September 28, 2008 5.0 February 18, 2009 On September 16, 2007, the Folding@home project officially attained a sustained performance level higher than one native petaFLOPS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLOPS), becoming the first computing system of any kind in the world to ever do so, although it had briefly peaked above one native petaFLOPS in March 2007, receiving a large amount of mainstream media coverage for doing so.[20] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folding@home#cite_note-19)[21] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folding@home#cite_note-20) In early May 2008 the project attained a sustained performance level higher than two native petaFLOPS, followed by the three and four native petaFLOPS milestones on August 20 and September 28, 2008 respectively. On February 18, 2009, Folding@home achieved a performance level of just above 5 petaFLOPS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLOPS), thereby becoming the first computing system of any kind to surpass 5 native PFLOPS,[22] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folding@home#cite_note-21) just as it was for the other four milestones.
The Folding@home computing cluster currently operates at above 3.3 native petaFLOPS, with a large majority of the performance coming from GPU (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPU) and PlayStation 3 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_3) clients.[3] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folding@home#cite_note-osstats-2) In comparison to this, the fastest standalone supercomputer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercomputer) (non-distributive computing) in the world (as of November 2009, Cray (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray) Jaguar (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray_XT5)) peaks at approximately 1.75 petaFLOPS.[23] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folding@home#cite_note-22)
Beginning in April 2009, Folding@Home began reporting performance in both "Native" FLOPS and x86 FLOPS.[3] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folding@home#cite_note-osstats-2) ("x86" FLOPS reported at a much higher mark than the "Native" FLOPS) A detailed explanation of the difference between the two figures was given in the FLOP section of the Folding@Home FAQ.[18] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folding@home#cite_note-Folding.40home_FLOP_FAQ-17)


Source (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folding@home)

Folding at home (http://folding.stanford.edu/)

[Gremlinzzz]

Put it on dialup.

[Gremlinzzz]

Is this part of China's ongoing attempt of taking over the world! :popcorn:

If they try just pull the plug.

[jcolyn]

But does it run Linux?????:biggrin:

[nlsthzn]

But does it run Linux?????:biggrin:

Most probably... But can it run Crysis? (I'm sorry...)

[andymorton]

But does it run Linux?????:biggrin:

I think it's running Red Flag Linux.

[Verbeck]

But does it run Linux?????:biggrin:
yes it does
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tianhe-I

[Spice Weasel]

But does it run Linux?????:biggrin:

Most supercomputers do. :)