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Supercomputer aiming for petaflop
CNN ^
| September 7, 2006
| Reuters
Posted on 09/07/2006 7:48:53 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- IBM will build a next-generation supercomputer for the U.S. Energy Department with the potential to achieve a sustained speed of 1,000 trillion calculations per second, or one petaflop, the department said on Wednesday.
The new computer, dubbed "Roadrunner", will be built at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.
Congress provided $35 million in fiscal 2006, which ends on September 30, to launch the computer project.
Roadrunner may eventually be used for an Energy Department program that ensures the U.S. stockpile of nuclear weapons is safe and reliable without the resumption of underground testing, the department said in a statement.
The machine is to be built entirely from commercially available hardware and based on the Red Hat Linux Version 4.3 operating system, it said.
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TOPICS: Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 1000trillion; bladecenterh; doe; energydepartment; ibm; linux; losalamos; nuclearweapons; petaflop; redhat; roadrunner; supercomputer; x3755
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One supercomputer to rule them all...
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
What... no Windows Vista !?
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posted on
09/07/2006 7:50:56 AM PDT
by
farlander
(Strategery - sure beats liberalism!)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
I just needs three more PCs in my Linux Beowulf Cluster to take them on.
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posted on
09/07/2006 7:51:38 AM PDT
by
bmwcyle
(Only stupid people would vote for McCain, Warner, Hagle, Snowe, Graham, or any RINO)
To: rdb3; chance33_98; Calvinist_Dark_Lord; Bush2000; PenguinWry; GodGunsandGuts; CyberCowboy777; ...
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posted on
09/07/2006 7:51:40 AM PDT
by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Better have one of these handy, you never know when you will get a runaway computer! :-)
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posted on
09/07/2006 7:52:39 AM PDT
by
stm
(Katherine Harris for US Senate!)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Hmmmm....I guess when someone calls a movie, speech, CD, etc a "megaflop", it can be construed another way.
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posted on
09/07/2006 7:53:31 AM PDT
by
spall
To: farlander
What... no Windows Vista !?Those bastards!
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
and based on the Red Hat Linux Version 4.3 operating system The communists have infiltrated the Energy Department!
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Are they going to put it to work finding peta-files?
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posted on
09/07/2006 7:54:18 AM PDT
by
xcamel
(Press to Test, Release to Detonate)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Meep meep.
To: xcamel
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
PETA = People for the Ethical Treatment of Athlons?
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posted on
09/07/2006 7:57:50 AM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(Dems - Your conduct is an invitation to the enemy, yet few of you have heart enough to join them.)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Is this the latest thing to be given away to the Communist Chinese?
To: Free Baptist
Is this the latest thing to be given away to the Communist Chinese?Nah, I'm sure they're waiting to get to 1 million teraflops before they consider it ready to export to our enemies.
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Shouldn't this post be on the Kitty Ping?
To: Young Werther
To: stm
So, would you attempt to spray the runaway computer with extinguishing foam, or just use the cylinder to bash its head in?
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Do petaflop computers exist already?
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posted on
09/07/2006 8:16:19 AM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Repeal the law of the excluded middle)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
This summer my daughter worked at Six Flags and shared an apartment with tw0 other girls and a cat named Megatron.
I', sure she, (the Cat) would like Pet-a-trons! Megatron is so Pentium!!!
To: RightWhale
Do petaflop computers exist already?I'm not sure.
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