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China Builds The Fastest Supercomputer
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| 10/29/2010
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Posted on 10/29/2010 11:49:49 PM PDT by ErnstStavroBlofeld
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To: ErnstStavroBlofeld
You can achieve alot when America ships all their jobs over to you in order to achieve their own self destruction.
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posted on
10/29/2010 11:55:28 PM PDT
by
Tempest
(I give up)
To: ErnstStavroBlofeld
7,168 GPUs - the Ultimate Gamer Indeed!
I can't wait until they get thing miniaturized down to iPad size.
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posted on
10/30/2010 12:03:17 AM PDT
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J Edgar
To: ErnstStavroBlofeld
7,168 GPUs - the Ultimate Gamer Indeed!
I can't wait until they get thing miniaturized down to iPad size.
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posted on
10/30/2010 12:03:39 AM PDT
by
J Edgar
To: ErnstStavroBlofeld
Didn’t they achieve a very fast supercomputer simply linking playstation 3s, probably weighing under a hundred pounds and costing a few thousand bucks?
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posted on
10/30/2010 12:47:40 AM PDT
by
TheThinker
(Communists: taking over the world one kooky doomsday scenario at a time.)
To: TheThinker
I was thinking the same thing.
To: ErnstStavroBlofeld
Gotta love them “magawats”.
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posted on
10/30/2010 12:50:37 AM PDT
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Bobibutu
To: ErnstStavroBlofeld
Gotta love them “magawatts”.
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posted on
10/30/2010 12:51:36 AM PDT
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Bobibutu
To: Bobibutu
To: ErnstStavroBlofeld
Add the made in China tag to yet another gadget: the worlds fastest supercomputer. China says it has the most powerful computing system a machine called Tianhe-1A. The supercomputer uses 7,168 NVIDIA Tesla M2050 GPUs (graphics processing units) and 14,336 Intel Xeon CPUs and is capable of clocking 2.507 petaflops or 2,507 trillion floating point calculations per second.
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posted on
10/30/2010 12:58:26 AM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet - Visualize)
To: ErnstStavroBlofeld
Just seems like the Chinese wasted a lot of material and money. I mean, measuring the weight of computers in tons seems so 1950’s.
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posted on
10/30/2010 12:59:43 AM PDT
by
TheThinker
(Communists: taking over the world one kooky doomsday scenario at a time.)
To: Tempest
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posted on
10/30/2010 1:34:44 AM PDT
by
jimfree
(In 2012 Sarah Palin will continue to have more relevant quality executive experience than B. Obama.)
To: ErnstStavroBlofeld
That we know about. Certain agencies probably have faster computers.
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posted on
10/30/2010 2:19:33 AM PDT
by
GAB-1955
(I write books, love my wife, serve my nation, and believe in the Resurrection.)
To: ErnstStavroBlofeld
What happens when the softwares catches up to the hardware?
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posted on
10/30/2010 2:25:34 AM PDT
by
screaminsunshine
(the way to win this game is not to play)
To: Tempest
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posted on
10/30/2010 2:35:47 AM PDT
by
Loud Mime
("A question? What is it?" an interrogative statement used to gather knowledge.. Airplane!)
To: ErnstStavroBlofeld
China has taken the lead in the supercomputer race, having built a 155 ton system using 7,168 GPUs...
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posted on
10/30/2010 2:44:21 AM PDT
by
Talisker
(When you find a turtle on top of a fence post, you can be damn sure it didn't get there on its own.)
To: ErnstStavroBlofeld
The ultimate efficacy of these supercomputers depends heavily upon the programs they are made to run being able to split their tasks more or less equally across all the individual processors in the machine. A badly designed program or an ill-suited problem will leave almost all the processors idle.
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posted on
10/30/2010 3:23:35 AM PDT
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HiTech RedNeck
(I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
To: ErnstStavroBlofeld
4.04 MEGAWATTS? What does it use for logic gates? 12AX7’s?
Herm
To: Ohio Hermit
This is actually pretty darn reasonable for a massively parallel system of this size. Each GPU with a pair of processors is using about 500 watts. For each hundred watts it is getting several times the crunch power of a typical home PC that uses about a hundred watts.
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posted on
10/30/2010 4:06:42 AM PDT
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HiTech RedNeck
(I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
To: HiTech RedNeck
And what makes you think they won’t have that? Recent events seem to suggest that the Chinese are becoming masters of cyberwarfare, or at least, better than everyone else considering all the practice they are getting...
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