An IBM-built computer named Blue Gene/L, deployed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, has doubled its performance to 280.6 trillion calculations per second (teraflops). The system is used to study the US nuclear stockpile and perform other research. International Business Machines Corp. built the top three systems on the list released by the Top 500 project, an independent group of university computer scientists who release supercomputer rankings every six months.


http://www.top500.org/lists/2005/11/TOP10_Nov2005.pdf



This post has been edited by hiroshi: Apr 10 2006, 05:07 PM

now....if only it supports SLI...think of the framerates achievable for FEAR and ES4: OBLIVION.... or use it to do folding instead and we can find a cure for cancer/aids/etc. in no time.....

Can't wait for the processor which IBM make for the sony playstation 3 ..i think virtual reality is possible with this machine

131072 processors!!

yeah.. it's 131072 processors

wouldn't it be a pain in the arse to maintain the thing? it's HUGE!!

I think Folding@Home are crunching more data compared to bluegene. Worldwide computers are contributing to folding.

the world fastest computer will be the folding project

it's a super cluster of computers around the world, which combined speed and calculation power exceeds any super computer in the world, and has better uses for humanity too.. not for war

wow... amazing.... wish to own one

insane...even the best proc u can buy cant match with it

everyone on this world
donate 1 gig of our home CPU power

total...dunno how many gig leh?

That'll be good enough to model a person mathematically from birth till death and all the possible consequences he'll face throughout his life like a Clairvoyant, but turns out purely statistical...

If only they link up all the top 10 uber computer to perform prime numbers search, i believe that'll be pretty interesting.

sure or not 131072 processors i think more .....

imagine if all the processors are intel 830 prescott.......the whole building will melt...lolz

haha..if using intel presscott proc..that pc only can run at south pole

and we'll have more water in the seas than ever before....with inefficent power usage.

:lol super computer for gaming.Is more than enough if only just using 0.0001% of it's cpu power.280.6 Tf/s.Can use for commercial,server,gaming,multi-threading and video encoding all at the same time.

cannot imagine how fast is the proceesing speed..

but , think BACK !

i belive IBM has set up a super computer
which is as powerful as today's P4 3.0 or AMD 3000+ ... Twenty years ago ,

This post has been edited by imisu29: Apr 11 2006, 11:27 PM

i think physical limitations will occur soon imisu29, don't think it'll be that easy.

agree, thats why dualcore proc came out..

131072 processors ... I wonder how many engineers are needed to just monitor and maintain the system

I bet those engineers has kick ass paycheck as well LOL

1mb SuperPi??

omg i can video edit and play at least 30 games at the same time and somore just open an application u dont ever need to close it.....

This post has been edited by SiLVeRHybRiD: Apr 13 2006, 11:25 AM

30 games only meh?? You probably can host 30 game servers and still able to edit 30 videos simultaneously

It's 131072 processors you know !!!

Can simulate The Matrix?

PowerPC pawns......Well , I heard PS3 uses PowerPC

Death to Intel [But too bad, now Apple is using'em]

With RISC processor + 50 Graphics Card xLI

* Host 50 Games [CS , etc]
* Join 100 games
* Open up 5,000 Firefox tabs
* eedit 3 videos simultaneousl
* Run VMWare and emulate 10 Client OS [From DOS till Windows Vista]
* Watch DVD

waaa...why dont they just make the processor using the big dishes like we always see in magazine ...i guess that's the core of our processor right ? so they can save alot of space ..haha

hiroshi,
which street of these idiot stay? I pass by there quite often, help u to "broke mirrors" next time

come on

hurry do benchies!

3dmark 06/05/03/02/01

do aquamark do OBLIVION hahahanmuahahamama.!

can render 4d or not?

huh??? is this... relevant??

4D simulation?

yeah

4d is the matrix dude...

the goddamn real world.

wonder if all 131072 Quad-Core processors

hahaha....demn good to have one...but thinking of the performance and the size,where u want to put it??sure bedroom not big enuff..plus,can we manage to pay the electrics bill?hahahha.....

not for personal use laa dol...server like this where got space in house...high maintainance....Company use sound logic 4 me...

Apple switched to intel because powerPC apparently does not pwn that much.

Big question where the heck i wanna put this thing in my house?LOL

First... If u can afford that rig... U can definitely afford a house big enough to house it

em...good info...

most annoying neighbour hehe..where is ur house man?

did anyone wondering how many ram did tat monster use
and its harddisk capacity...

know what.. i have the second or maybe third fastest computer in malaysia..bilive it or not?.... hahaha

dun belive... except u say is personal computer lo....

Next generation of the Super Ultra Computing for home user.......

WOW Tat was crazy... If only our personal computers hav tis type of performance... Any games wif any graphic will not be a problem

so if i got 1 i use it to surf internet ? hehehe =D or chating ?

yeah but i got 1 problem with it that is....wtf i gonna put tis crap in my room?

haha put it in the basement.make a house laboratory

die worrr use this monster at home electricity already up 12%

The fastest computer in the world are those moving ones because the one as mentioned in the first post is all stagnant.

Hahaha, little joke there to lighten the mood

NOOOOO!!! The South Pole will melt and the whole world will be flooded!!!

Ehm ... I want that Monster !!!! it can make Lowyat billion times better with Unlimited Postings and full Graphic uploads + Programes !!!

Ehm ... Can join all the Supper games like Farcry , Sim City , Need for speed Underground , Counterstrike .... and some Quake 4 + Star Wars and other games in to one virtual World !!!!

You can fight , manage , war ... Like RO and similiar games ...
Ah . Plus Grand Thef Auto will be good ...
Can steal Overloard Tank from Generals and Nuclear sub from Red Alert and hijack a aeroplane like Playing Flight Simulator ..

I think RO would Loose to this ... Ha ha .... Play the World indeed .


Anyway , Can Everyone sponsor to this machine in malaysia ?
And ask all Software programmer to design the ultimate game ?
and Hardware designer to buy all the best stuff from lowyat for this machine ?

I want to play Counter strike like Grand Thef Auto and run around in the virtual War against terrorist !

One more , add some scence from Battle Field 2 !!! I like it .

wonder will there be a graphic card same lvl with this ......"thing"????

wait another 50 years and these super computers proc probably can be found in Pda's or Laptops...

That is a main frame right? Anyway I dun think any tom d*** and harry will be able to afford to build that monster.

lol...u never know ...they always hide techonolgy away from us.....so to gain more profit

Im imagine one thing...maybe you think is impossible...but i think is impossible...

U see now cpu technology is so fast update, if the fiber optic technology can reach 10GB... i think we no need to buy pc anymore...why? We just need to apply a fiber optic from ISP, then we need a console(for connect to the supercomputer at the ISP), keyboard, mouse , monitor, speaker, thats all...all the cacaluting process handle by the Supercomputer, then send back to our console, u think is it possible???

well well well....nice for world LAN Party wowo...

tht case u guys know what is the super computer at malaysia?

what i can say is...lets just keep dreaming of its power... that is unachieveable...lol

is it PC or workstation?

cool men.. if this kind of pc 'fly' to my pc room... wa!!! you are dreaming la... hahahaha

This post has been edited by davidhomestudio: Jul 12 2006, 06:37 PM

Fingers crossed,... I may soon have access to the Human Genome Center`s 1,428 CPUs, 3.3 Tb RAM and 145 Tb disk space

p.s. Used to be listed on the top 500 3 years or so back

This post has been edited by BeastX: Jul 12 2006, 06:54 PM

Yeah..... I also consider it....... super computing for new era to home user......

too fast... too fast.. i scare it fast till we click my computer then it straight go to c drive .. wanna go to other drive also cannot....... press the turn off computer button.. then i straight shutdown... can't restart.... too fast fast

my goodness ... i call this as grandmother story ... november 2005 punyai cerita la

This post has been edited by dblooi: Dec 5 2006, 09:24 PM

fastest computer = more money to spend

Fastest computer = PS4 and XBOX 720

i wonder what temperature in that room will be when all the processors is fully loaded...mayb can fried an egg in side....lol

If want to place this supercomputer also hard. we need to modify our room air-con to 10hp above and also the floor map.wow..All we need is $$$$$. 10 years before story,My server room got put 3 IBM supercomputer(no use now) alr need RM1million exclude other modification.

i wonder how the graphics FPS rate gonna look like when i install oblivion in the computer.

There is almost no way of knowing as we don't know what GPU it's using.....

wow is super computer

U considering getting one? Haha. U gotta be kidding man. Nah we dun really need them yet. Even a quad core processor is more then enough actually.

i wonder whether it can count what number 4d can come out

Is that something can be calculated?

talking about global warming...

it's all about statistic

damn... wonder if i have tat how good internet services can be provided...

Sun eyes supercomputing glory
Sun Microsystems on Monday revealed the Constellation System, a high-performance computing platform that company executives claim will vault the company back into the top ranks of supercomputer manufacturers. The Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at the University of Texas is currently preparing a Constellation system. If TACC can get enough Barcelona chips from Advanced Micro Devices by Oct. 15, its system will land near the top of the next Top 500 Supercomputers list, Sun says. The TACC system will provide a peak performance of around 500 teraflops, or 500 trillion operations a second. A fully built-out Constellation system, with contemporary components, could hit a peak of 2 petaflops, or 2 quadrillion operations per second.

basically other than longer e-penis among IBM, Sun, dell and cray, what's the major purpose of these supercomputer?

a supercomputer indeed..lolz.
wonder malaysia got this kind of thingy or not??
mayb in tmnet headQuater..lolz.

Other country currently will find this useless unless you want to simulate war

Scientific research and military simulation.

TMNUT won't use this supercomputer loR..

Malaysia's fastest supercomputer is from TNB, I think.

It appeared on the list at 83 and 84 rank with 2048 CPUs.

Rank: 83/84
Site:Energy Company (G)
Country: Malaysia
Computer: HP DL140, Xeon 53xx 2.33GHz (Clovertown), GigEthernet
Hewlett-Packard
CPUs: 2048
Year: 2007
rMax: 10511
rPeak: 19112

This post has been edited by c9: Aug 2 2007, 02:18 PM

Imagine if they using quad core? 131072 x 4 = 524,288 @@

maybe 20 yearst from now u guys can buy it at less than rm1000 for the whole rig.... look at p4 3.0 cost... hahahaha...

it may be cheap, but your tnb bil won't be cheap

for next time, it will be cheap as thing goes smaller and smaller and it consume lesser electric

High end PC nowadays are about 2-3 times the supercomputer back then in 1980s. Its about 20yrs++ so ur statement make sense.

i oso think ths same..

but maybe its possible in 10 -15 yrs lo...

the pc is upgrading very fast... i think maybe 10 - 15 yrs should be able to get the whole rig.

I think 10 years enuff liao lor...or maybe less

Us LYN-ers would use it for Folding.my. Peaceful applications...

fastest computer IMO would be the one that is mounted on a space craft.

wonder if it can run on windows xp or vista leh??? lol... by the way, i guess this kind of pc only meant for running certain app that custom made for it which is maybe useless for most of us... look at unix server... still so ugly...

The supercomputer is only meant for research and a very large project that need computation to be done in less time. Research for example to determine what would happen next to our earth.

super fastest pc for super fastest techno people in US or western, but in Malaysia,i am super doubt we capable to handle it even if we have..for what?

Mlaysia has a supercomputer and no news bout what they are doing for.