IBM Breaks Own Supercomputer Record: 133 Trillion instructions per second.

Betanews ^ | March 24, 2005 | David Worthington,

[Next_Time_NJ]

IBM has one-upped itself. Big Blue has revealed that it has broken through the 100 teraflop mark and developed the world's fastest supercomputer for the United States National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA).

The system is a derivative of IBM's BlueGene/L supercomputer, which won the supercomputing crown back from NEC's Earth Simulator. The NNSA machine is used to simulate nuclear tests as part of an ongoing maintenance program for the U.S. nuclear stockpile.

[TrueKnightGalahad]

You had lava? All I had was formless void! :)

[BJungNan]

Sounds like just another day at the office to me.

[BJungNan]

Oops! Just read the headline again. IBM Breaks Own Supercomputer Record: 133 Trillion instructions per second

I thought it said per day. I guess that is a little more than I could handle in a second.

[EGPWS]

Big Blue has revealed that it has broken through the 100 teraflop mark and developed the world's fastest supercomputer for the United States National Nuclear Security Administration

I want one to replace my Dell. : )

[Nick Danger]

All I had was formless void!

Void? You had void? All I had was int.

[TrueKnightGalahad]

LOL!

[djf]

You'll need that many billions of MIPS for the next version of Windoze...

[Erasmus]

If we think in a certain way, perhaps our facial muscles move a bit and the computer could read it? Steaming video email?

I already get a fair amount of those.

[Erasmus]

>>Mine's made out of wood and rocks.

>Rocks? You had rocks? When I was building my computer, the Earth hadn't even cooled. All we had was lava.

When I started programming, we had to do it with all ones because zeros hadn't been invented yet.

[PFKEY]

This is such an inconceivably high number...

What is incredible to me is that someone can come up with the need to be able to have that make calculations to solve or answer some real question.

If you just said calculate pi it will crunch away for ever if it has enough decimal places to the right.

To actually have a real world problem that would need 133 trillion calculations.

I know that it is probably calculation many things that are unrelated.

[SamAdams76]

The average PC today has more computing power than the fastest computers in the world just 30 years ago. Hence, thirty years from now, the average "PC" (if it is even called that) will have more computing power than this teraflop computer of IBM's.

It is a good bet that the world of 30 years from now will be virtually unrecognizable to us.

[Straight Vermonter]

Actually Apple's Macs run chips with the same technology as those in the IBM supercomputers. Obviously they are a simpler design etc but they are from the same design generation.

[EQAndyBuzz]

"who cares?!"

Skynet cares. hehehe.....

[EQAndyBuzz]

"Aw, that's nothing. My computer was born in a hole in the road in a trailer park while starving etc..etc..."

My computer walked back and forth to school, uphill, both ways, with only dual 5 1/4" floppy drives to hold its data.

[Paulus]

"My wife can do twice that when she gets to yelling at me ;-)"

I hear you brother!

[EQAndyBuzz]

"PC's killed the mainframe business in the late 80's."

Actually the concept of distributed processing killed the mainframes back in the late 80's, early 90's. This is why IBM is now restructured. IBM's e-servers compete in that framework.

[reg45]

I want one to replace my Dell.

The IBM salesman will be at your home at 9:00am.

[Phsstpok]

133 TIPS

and, of course, with all of that processing power, the answer it came up with was...



wait for it...


42

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

On the first IBM PC a floppy drive was an option and it had a cassette interface.

I still have my analog computer (slide rule).

[EQAndyBuzz]

"The IBM salesman will be at your home at 9:00am."

No he won't. Takes time to get here from China.