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Waiting to exascale: Now that IBM has Summit-ed, who's to node what comes next?
The Register ^ | 14 June 2018 | Chris Mellor

Posted on 06/14/2018 11:04:26 AM PDT by ShadowAce

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1 posted on 06/14/2018 11:04:26 AM PDT by ShadowAce
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To: rdb3; Calvinist_Dark_Lord; JosephW; Only1choice____Freedom; amigatec; Ernest_at_the_Beach; ...

2 posted on 06/14/2018 11:05:01 AM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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Lotus Notes still won’t work right.


3 posted on 06/14/2018 11:06:12 AM PDT by wally_bert (This is the message phone company. I see youÂ’re using our unit, now how about paying for it?)
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… 200,000 trillion calculations per second …
Isn’t that 200 quadrillion calculations per second? or are we going by the British trillion?
4 posted on 06/14/2018 11:09:15 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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Nano-Nano.....................


5 posted on 06/14/2018 11:10:40 AM PDT by Red Badger (When Obama and VJ go to prison for treason, will Roseanne get her show back?...)
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Sweet! Now the NSA will be able to spy on the whole world in real-time!


6 posted on 06/14/2018 11:15:31 AM PDT by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism.)
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I’m only moderately impressed when computers are made faster by creating a larger “committee” of individual processors.

The challenge with these committees is connecting the individual processors together.


7 posted on 06/14/2018 11:15:32 AM PDT by cymbeline
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ElectricPencil screams on this baby.


8 posted on 06/14/2018 11:16:35 AM PDT by Joe Bfstplk (A Texas Deplorable.)
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It’s been more than 15 years since I have used an IBM product. Heck, I thought they hade nearly vanished.


9 posted on 06/14/2018 11:16:52 AM PDT by CodeToad
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My first and only computer that I learned to program FORTRAN 1962

The following is the text of an IBM Data Processing Division press technical fact sheet distributed on October 4, 1960.
The solid-state IBM 7090 is the most powerful data processing system now coming off production lines at International Business Machines Corporation. The fully-transistorized system has computing speeds six times faster than those of its vacuum-tube predecessor, the IBM 709, and seven and one-half times faster than those of the IBM 704. Announced in December, 1958, the first 7090 was installed in December, 1959.


10 posted on 06/14/2018 11:22:25 AM PDT by larryjohnson (FReepersonaltrainer)
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My first and only computer that I learned to program FORTRAN 1962

The following is the text of an IBM Data Processing Division press technical fact sheet distributed on October 4, 1960.
The solid-state IBM 7090 is the most powerful data processing system now coming off production lines at International Business Machines Corporation. The fully-transistorized system has computing speeds six times faster than those of its vacuum-tube predecessor, the IBM 709, and seven and one-half times faster than those of the IBM 704. Announced in December, 1958, the first 7090 was installed in December, 1959.


11 posted on 06/14/2018 11:22:26 AM PDT by larryjohnson (FReepersonaltrainer)
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I still have a mid 1990’s vintage IBM desktop. Not windows/I10 worthy but still runs early excel, the grandson’s games plus picture storage. With Chinese espionage, I would not trust products from Lenovo, who took over IBM’s personal computer business. IBM has always been strong on systems, just not consumer products..


12 posted on 06/14/2018 11:33:49 AM PDT by buckalfa (I was so much older then, but I'm younger than that now.)
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It's a SNA world after all!
It's a SNA world after all!
It's a SNA world after all!
It's a SNA...SNA...world!!!

What does Netview say about it (while running on my TN3270 emulator to pull VTAM statistics)?

13 posted on 06/14/2018 11:35:50 AM PDT by Dubh_Ghlase
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The article does say that 1) Summit has far fewer nodes than it's neighbor, Titan, and 2) Mellanox is working on 400GB/sec IB fabric fo the next generation.

Not only are these machines getting more powerful, they're getting smaller.

14 posted on 06/14/2018 11:39:34 AM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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Brings back memories. I started with Cobol and Autocoder on the 7010 in the late 60’s just before the 360’s came in.


15 posted on 06/14/2018 12:00:45 PM PDT by duckman ( Not tired of winning!)
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Bookmark


16 posted on 06/14/2018 12:02:34 PM PDT by publius911 ( If we let it, California will lead us all over the cliff.)
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To: duckman

I started with FORTRAN IV on a Cray 6400, moved to a Cray 6600, then 7600. This was 1966 to 1973.


17 posted on 06/14/2018 12:09:46 PM PDT by FroggyTheGremlim (Democrats: the political party of the undeadD)
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“Not only are these machines getting more powerful, they’re getting smaller.”

Smaller equals faster — yes.

Are they running at higher clock speeds? I.e. are gate delays getting smaller?


18 posted on 06/14/2018 12:45:36 PM PDT by cymbeline
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“Not only are these machines getting more powerful, they’re getting smaller.”

Smaller equals faster — yes.

Are they running at higher clock speeds? I.e. are gate delays getting smaller?


19 posted on 06/14/2018 12:46:16 PM PDT by cymbeline
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bump


20 posted on 06/14/2018 12:57:14 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (Trump is a real estate genius because he lives rent-free in so many heads.)
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