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Jaguar is world's fastest supercomputer
The Telegraph ^ | 6/1/2010

Posted on 06/03/2010 4:25:55 PM PDT by bruinbirdman

Jaguar, an American computer that can perform as many calculations in a day as a normal computer can in 100 years, has been crowned as the world's fastest supercomputer.

Jaguar, built by the Cray company and housed at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, has a top speed of 1.75 petaflops per second, according to a bi-annual top 500 supercomputer survey.

A petaflop is equivalent to 1,000 trillion calculations

The $120 million (£82 million) Jaguar has been used by scientists to simulate the explosion of stars, the flow of uranium into the Columbia river from ageing underground storage facilities, and the effects of climate change.

The United States is home to around half the supercomputers on the top 500 list, which was published at the International Supercomputing Conference in Hamburg, Germany.

However, China, which has unabashed ambitions to build the world's fastest computer, now has 24 of the world's fastest machines.

China's Nebulae machine at the National Supercomputing centre in the southern city of Shenzhen ranked second overall, with a speed of 1.271 petaflops per second. The Tianhe-1 supercomputer in Tianjin ranked seventh.

The Chinese state media said the machines were being used for sequencing genes and other scientific projects.

The fastest machine in the UK – which has 38 supercomputers on the list – is housed at the University of Edinburgh. It has a top speed of 0.27 petaflops per second.

Scientists said the supercomputers are increasingly being used commercially, especially in the aerospace and defence sectors. Giant retailers, such as Walmart, also have powerful systems in order to track their supply chain.

Experts also said that while the top 500 list represented the fastest known computers, there were also a number of secret machines, owned by governments around the world, whose speed may be even greater.

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To: bruinbirdman

We can thank Billy J. Clinton, who personally signed over those Crays to the Chinese.


21 posted on 06/03/2010 6:14:16 PM PDT by snowrip (Liberal? You are a socialist with no rational argument.)
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To: DoughtyOne
SEE? See how it worked??? ROFL

have a great day

22 posted on 06/03/2010 6:26:07 PM PDT by annieokie
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To: annieokie

Oh you!!!!! Grrrrr...

;^)


23 posted on 06/03/2010 8:01:06 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (J. D. Hayworth, the next Senator, the Great State of Arizona - Sen. Poopdeck, Panama is calling...)
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To: DoughtyOne

lol


24 posted on 06/03/2010 8:10:32 PM PDT by annieokie
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To: bruinbirdman

25 posted on 06/03/2010 9:03:07 PM PDT by HangnJudge
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To: annieokie
Me too, wonder what the next higher will be named? lol

Given the current speed of progress,
Supercomputers are projected to reach
1 exaFLOPS 10^18 in 2019

26 posted on 06/03/2010 9:07:42 PM PDT by HangnJudge
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To: Squantos

Does it come in a laptop?


27 posted on 06/04/2010 8:29:20 PM PDT by Eaker (Pablo is very wily)
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To: HangnJudge
Nice logo on that sucker, kind of wondering what type of logo I can put on my 11 year old Gateway G6 400Mhz I'm using now ?
28 posted on 06/04/2010 9:15:04 PM PDT by The Cajun (Mind numbed robot , ditto-head, Hannitized, Levinite)
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