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New Supercomputer Will Span Continents, Outrace World's Fastest
Live Science ^ | 05/13/2019 | Mindy Weisberger,

Posted on 05/14/2019 12:15:26 PM PDT by 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.

(Excerpt) Read more at livescience.com ...


TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: radiotelescopes; supercomputer
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To: wally_bert

“Can it run Lotus Notes adequately?”

It will do just fine until the next version of Windows comes out.


21 posted on 05/14/2019 1:35:18 PM PDT by rightwingcrazy (;-)
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Deep Thought


22 posted on 05/14/2019 2:06:13 PM PDT by NativeSon ( Grease the floor with Crisco when I dance the Disco)
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To: BenLurkin
Artificial intelligence?


23 posted on 05/14/2019 2:09:45 PM PDT by jonrick46 (Cultural Marxism is the cult of the Left waiting for the Mothership.)
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Correct for 500,

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24 posted on 05/14/2019 2:20:55 PM PDT by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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A mere abacus, mention it not.


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Still waiting for the quantum gravity AI computer ...


26 posted on 05/14/2019 3:19:09 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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And when you turn it on you’ll still be staring at an hourglass.


27 posted on 05/14/2019 3:49:51 PM PDT by emotionalcripple
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28 posted on 05/14/2019 3:53:03 PM PDT by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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29 posted on 05/14/2019 5:53:31 PM PDT by Don W (When blacks riot, neighbourhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn.)
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Why do they need a computer like this,
we all know the answer is 42.


30 posted on 05/14/2019 5:57:51 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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