New Supercomputer Will Span Continents, Outrace World's Fastest

Live Science ^ | 05/13/2019 | Mindy Weisberger,

[BenLurkin]

Scientists recently completed the engineering design for the first of two paired supercomputers called the Science Data Processor (SDP). Together, these supercomputers will manage vast quantities of data collected by the Square Kilometre Array (SKA), a network of radio telescopes in Perth, Australia, and Cape Town, South Africa, SKA representatives said in a statement.

When completed, the powerhouse processors — one installed in Perth and one in Cape Town — will wrangle 600 petabytes (1 petabyte is equal to a million gigabytes) of data per year, or "enough to fill more than a million average laptops," said Maurizio Miccolis, an SDP project manager based in the United Kingdom.

How fast will the new supercomputer be? Processing speed is measured in floating-point operations per second, or flops. A powerful supercomputer's performance is expressed in petaflops: a quadrillion calculations per second. By comparison, the speed of most personal computers is measured in gigaflops: 1 billion calculations per second.

Researchers estimate that SDP will operate at 250 petaflops, or 250 quadrillion calculations in an instant, making it 25% faster than IBM’s Summit, "the current fastest supercomputer in the world," Miccolis said.

At the same time that SDP is moving enormous amounts of radio telescope data at record speeds, the supercomputer will also conduct nearly real-time data analysis to sift signal from noise, according to SDP representatives.

[Jonty30]

The important question is whether or not it can win at Jeopardy.

[real saxophonist]

Yes, I misread the title as New Supercomputer Will Spam...'

No, I don't have my glasses on.

[dp0622]

Lol

[noiseman]

Reminds me a little of Colossus and Guardian.

[Army Air Corps]

Boy, that’ll create and send a lot of Nigerian money scam E-mails.

[CTyank]

https://wjccschools.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/01/I-Have-No-Mouth-But-I-Must-Scream-by-Harlan-Ellison.pdf

[Yo-Yo]

[ConservativeMind]

The new AMD supercomputer will stop this in calculations per second.

[TLI]

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[wally_bert]

Can it run Lotus Notes adequately?

How many instances of Chrome, Edge, and Firefox before it crawls?

Recently I ran into a home W10 box with 135 Chrome tabs, 35 Edge browsers, and 15 Firefox windows open at once.

[\/\/ayne]

System up time 99 days?

[\/\/ayne]

A.L.I.E

[wally_bert]

Probably.

The user was paranoid about all those sessions not coming back after restarting.

Vital stuff like movie review blogs, sports sites, twitter, and other fodder.

I close stuff when done. Rarely do I more than two browsers open.

[BenLurkin]

Excellent The 100 reference!

[cymbeline]

We need to ask what’s a compter. Is a million processors connected together a single computer, or is it a committee of computers.

[samtheman]

http://addsdonna.com/old-website/ADDS_DONNA/Science_Fiction_files/I_have_no_mouth.pdf

globe spanning computer

[MeganC]

In about ten years 600 petabytes will be about the size of the average video game.

[NorthMountain]

The people who run the "Top 500 Supercomputers" organization consider millions of cores connected together to be one computer. Notice that #3 on that list has more than ten million cores and consumes 15 megaWatts of power. #1 and #2 are much more efficient.

[I want the USA back]

It’s not how big your CPU is, or how many petaflops you can do, it’s what you do with it that counts. (Programming.)