[ExTexasRedhead]

Making it easier for Big Brother to watch all of us even better.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

From the Register (UK):

Packed with 1.6 million Power cores

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The big bad box that IBM sold to LLNL and is talking about today is nicknamed Sequoia, and it will be based on a "future Power technology" that IBM is not being specific about at this point. IBM is expected to deliver Sequoia in 2011, and it will pack 1.6 million processor cores, a more than tenfold increase over the Dawn machine that will deliver a fortyfold increase in performance to 20.13 petaflops.

The Sequoia machine, which will have 1.6 TB of main memory, will be housed in a mere 96 racks and take up 3,422 square feet of floor space - a little more than twice the size of the Dawn system. The Sequoia massively parallel machine will consume approximately 6.6 megawatts of juice, which is a lot for a single machine, but given that it will deliver 3,050 megaflops per watt - a nearly seven-fold increase in power efficiency over the Dawn system - the tradeoff seems to be worth it. Provided you have a data center that can handle 6.6 megawatts.

[The_Victor]

All the better for playing World of Warcraft.

[oh8eleven]

The primary use of Sequoai will be to simulate nuclear weapons testing to check the United States’ stockpile without having to blow anything up.
The DOE simulates nuclear testing? Why not the DOD?
My guess is that the DOE will adapt Sequoai to monitor and control our home thermostats.
Oh, except for the one in the White House.

[library user]

Reminds me of this thread, from my lurking days...

[ShadowAce]

[4Speed]

Great ...Maybe a smart computer will tell the Energy Idiots to DRILL HERE DRILL NOW !

I don’t know any Govt. “workers” who can write Code ? Who’s gonna program it ? India ? Or American Contractors too smart to take a Govt. job ?

[chuck_the_tv_out]

DoE has it’s finger in way too many pies that are totally unrelated from Energy.

[shorty_harris]

Hey, maybe they can even get it to predict the weather...

[agere_contra]

The purpose of the Department of Energy is to remove US dependence on foreign energy sources.

Not only is the DoE doing the worst job imaginable at its defined role, it is now getting the fastest computer on earth to do a job that is not, repeat not part of its remit.

[utherdoul]

I want that to play Cyrsis. Can you imagine the lan party you could run on that thing?

[utherdoul]

I want that to play Cyrsis. Can you imagine the lan party you could run on that thing?

[TLI]

I just luv the wheel...