Supercomputers with 100 million cores coming by 2018

CW ^ | 16 Nov 2009 | Patrick Thibodeau

[BGHater]

Cray Nanny bump

[mmichaels1970]

operating fusion reactors with plasma that reaches 150 million degrees Celsius

I was just wrestling with that problem yesterday. Gave up on it for now, but I figure I'll go back to it later when I have a clear head.

[Flightdeck]

My work computer came in at a respectable number nine on the list, I see.

[loungitude]

world’s most important problems, including climate change

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And that’s the end of the story.

[ShadowAce]

[1rudeboy]

Great, but will they play EVE?

[jessduntno]

"plasma that reaches 150 million degrees Celsius"

"I was just wrestling with that problem yesterday. Gave up on it for now, but I figure I'll go back to it later when I have a clear head. "

I just look at the latest news and my blood boils...does that count?

[battlecry]

What is a “bio energy product” that requires computing at this scale?

[fred2008]

Just ask Al Gore. He's figured out that Earth's temperature is millions of degrees a few kilometers down from the surface :-)

[BGHater]

Humans.

[ReleaseTheHounds]

Maybe this super-computer will be able to figure out where all that stimulus money went and how many jobs were created or saved in fictitious congressional districts.

[antiRepublicrat]

What is a “bio energy product” that requires computing at this scale?

I can see them modeling decomposition, what plants aided by what chemicals under what environments best degrade into something that can be useful.

[Uncle Miltie]

"systems that can solve the planet's biggest problems"

How do you solve a problem like Maria?

[MNDude]

“needed for high-resolution climate models”

What a waste!

[mmichaels1970]

Supercomputers allow researchers to create three-dimensional visualizations, not unlike a video game, to run endless "what-if" scenarios with increasingly finer detail.

"what-if" I buy her a shot of whiskey. "what-if" I say "If I could rearrange the alphabet, I would put U and I together."...important stuff like that....we all know the computer guys are working on that kind of stuff.

[mmichaels1970]

world’s most important problems, including climate change

What do you suppose would happen if the computer crunched all of the data and came back with "climage change does not exist"?

My guess is they'd switch to a Mac.

[from occupied ga]

There is a race to make supercomputers as powerful as possible to solve some of the world's most important problems, including climate change, the need for ultra-long-life batteries for cars, operating fusion reactors with plasma that reaches 150 million degrees Celsius and creating bio-fuels from weeds and not corn.

not sure how computing power is going to solve climate change since it isn't a problem to start with. Likewise not sure how computers are going to extend battery life or allow violations of the 1st and 2nd laws of thermodynamics which would be necessary to create "biofuels" that don't consume more fossil energy than they produce.

[DannyTN]

I don’t think you really need a supercomputer to solve all of those problems. For example I ran a simulation on a Pentium to solve climate change and it produced the following results....

“The inventor of the internet is a bozo.”

[Reeses]

100 million cores

rendering chess playing and stock day trading pointless pastimes.

[Blueflag]

No credibility awarded to the author because of this phrase: “some of the world’s most important problems, including climate change...”

Complete and utter BS.

POLITICIANS and PAID-FOR ‘scientists’ go for that crap and the money around it, but NO real real scientist is there anymore.

There are legitimate papers on pollution and man’s effect on climate, but not the agenda of “climate change” as a social agenda.