News Blue Gene Supercomputer beats its own record

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  1. WilHarris

    WilHarris Just another nobody Moderator

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  2. stephen2002

    stephen2002 What's a Dremel?

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    If I had access to that thing I could render animations that take months in minutes :D

    I wonder what the power requirements are?
     
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  3. P2D

    P2D 99.999% Pure Spam!

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    Who needs overclocking! damn how long till we get that kinda tech (Public, that is)

    (and not 100 mil)
     
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  4. rupbert

    rupbert What's a Dremel?

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    Absolutely mind blowing
     
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  5. boggsi

    boggsi What's a Dremel?

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    The idea of AI scares me.

    Have you people not seen the matrix!?!?! And you wanna give it the most powerful computer in the world!! pffft
     
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  6. Kipman725

    Kipman725 When did I get a custom title!?!

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    and to answer the obilitory 3dmark question the answer is:
    It can't score.
     
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  7. perplekks45

    perplekks45 LIKE AN ANIMAL!

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    Anyone thought of Moore's Law? I think this has shown it ain't working anymore, is it?
    For those who don't know...
    Read this!
    And this!
     
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  8. Swafeman

    Swafeman Minimodder

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    Moores law never worked and never existed

    Its only used as a ploy by chip companies, they could 10X the speed of PCs if they wanted, either my rampin clock speed, adding more cores, or just more CPUs, they dont tho, cos of Moores law, keep it doubling every 18 months and its a satisfactory increase for consumers, while they can make the maximum profit, why wouldnt they increase clock speed by 100% every couple of months? Cos then theyd top out after a few years and go bust, by slowing it down, they make their businesses tons of money, plus give themselves much more longetivity ;)
     
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  9. Kipman725

    Kipman725 When did I get a custom title!?!

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    Like Swafeman said mores law is one of echonomics.
     
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    Techno-Dann Disgruntled kumquat

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    Actually, even if Moore's law was an absolute barrier, Blue Gene wouldn't be a violation. More's Law only constrains the power of a single chip, not Blue Gene's 131,072. (That's 2^17, by the way.)

    {edit} That is to say, each of Blue Gene's CPUs follow More's Law, but because it has so many processors, it can work much faster than any single processor. {/edit}
     
    Techno-Dann, 30 Oct 2005
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  11. Reaper_Unreal

    Reaper_Unreal What's a Dremel?

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    Just a typo I noticed, it's petaflop not petraflop. Gotta love those S.I. prefixes :D
     
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  12. jezmck

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    The most amazing supercomputers and they can't think of decent names... :sigh:

    There are a few typos in the article: "...Blue Gene has one again..." should be "once"; "...quintrillion..." should be "quintillion"; "...intellegence..." should be "intelligence".
    And do we need both "...a staggering 280.6 trillion calculations per second." and "This is 280,600,000,000,000 calculations per second."?

    Blimey, I'm an arse, but why are these getting through?
     
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  13. MrWillyWonka

    MrWillyWonka Chocolate computers galore!

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    Damn, I think I'll be putting future news through MS word before I send off the submission!
     
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  14. HellRazor

    HellRazor What's a Dremel?

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    The real question here though is:

    Does it have Solitare on it? My life long dream is to play a game of Solitare on the worlds most powerful PC.
     
    HellRazor, 31 Oct 2005
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  15. bloodcar

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    You guys do know that Moore's law relates to the number of transisters on a chip and not it's speed, don't you?
     
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