Posted on 02/03/2009 3:41:59 PM PST by bruinbirdman
Seven months after IBM delivered the world's fastest supercomputer, it has announced an even speedier one.
IBM said on Tuesday it is developing the technology for its new Sequoia computer, with delivery scheduled in 2011 to the Department of Energy for use at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
Sequoia will chug along at 20 petaflops per second and is one order of magnitude quicker than its predecessor. The earlier machine, delivered in June to the Energy Department, broke the 1 petaflop barrier.
Peta is a term for quadrillion and FLOP stands for floating point operations per second.
Sequoia, and a smaller computer called Dawn, are being built in Rochester, Minnesota, for use in simulating nuclear tests. IBM says they can also be used for complex tasks like weather forecasting or oil exploration.
IBM says Sequoia will be highly energy-efficient for the job it does but even so will occupy 96 refrigerator-sized racks in an area the size of a big house – 3,422 square feet.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Vista ready.
Yeah, but no one will be really impressed unless it fits in a cell phone.
“Vista ready.”
No, but it Dell says it can be downgraded at no cost to XP.
petaflop? youd think they could have come up with a better name.
>>Vista ready.<<
Finally, a computer that can really let Vista show what it can do!
OK, now I gotta sell my two million laptops I got connected together and get me one of these!
How fast does it load Free Republic is the big question, before I buy one?
It would be a lot cheaper to bump the freepathon and let Jim buy another bag of peanuts to feed the hamsters running the wheel...
It follows the name convention they have used for a long time. Peta is a term for quadrillion and FLOP stands for floating point operations per second.
Thats exactly what flashed through my mind when I read the headline to the article. We’ve been making films for years about AI and the destruction of a civilization, wonder how long we got!!!! LOL
LOL. But here is the real story:
Sequoia, which is expected to be operational in 2012, runs on 1.5 million embedded IBM PowerPC chips and uses the Linux operating system and embedded software to manage communications among the chipsYou can find the article here.
You know long before Terminator, there was Frank Herbert and Dune. Humans enslaved for centuries by computer overlords. Not out of this realm as it will start as a defense project to replace human soldiers on the battlefield.
The media reports this, yet is strangely silent about the massive lay-off IBM had last week. Wonder if Sam Palmisano glad-handing with Obama at the White House last Wednesday has anything to do with the news blackout about the lay-offs?
Didn't I see those on ten vegan protester women?
Can you Run Falcon 4 on that system.I’d love to have that.
It may be functional but it sounds like walking behind an elephant with a shovel.
Just in time for more GIGO “climate change” data modeling.
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