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sinic    Topic opened June 09, 2008, 10:33:25 AM
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From the wiki entry on the IBM Roadrunner

Quote from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Roadrunner
Roadrunner is the name of a next-generation supercomputer at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. Currently the world's fastest supercomputer, the Roadrunner is designed for a performance level of 1.6 petaflops peak, which it reached in June 2008,[1] and to be the world's first TOP500 Linpack sustained 1.0 petaflops system. IBM built the computer for the US Department of Energy. It is a hybrid design with almost 7,000 AMD Opteron dual core processors and almost 13,000 IBM PowerXCell 8i CPUs in special designed TriBlades connected by Infiniband.

The Roadrunner uses the Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system and managed with xCAT. The world's most powerful computer, Roadrunner covers approximately 12,000 square feet (1,100 square meters). It became operational in 2008.

The US Department of Energy plans to use the computer for simulating how nuclear materials age and whether the aging nuclear weapon arsenal of the United States is safe and reliable. Other uses for the supercomputer include the sciences, financial, automotive and aerospace industries.

So if you had one what would you do with it?  I personally think it might be neat to try some ab initio calculations on entire organisms instead of just a few molecules at a time to try to predict interactions based on different stimuli.
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K Reply #1 in World's Fastest Computer Unveiled at Los Almos — Posted June 09, 2008, 12:30:41 PM
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I'd play Crysis.

Bet I could almost get it up to max settings.
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Aeryven Reply #2 in World's Fastest Computer Unveiled at Los Almos — Posted June 09, 2008, 12:36:41 PM
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Quote from: K on June 09, 2008, 12:30:41 PM
I'd play Crysis.

Bet I could almost get it up to max settings.

You made me spray LOL out my nose.  Smile
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Smurph Reply #3 in World's Fastest Computer Unveiled at Los Almos — Posted June 09, 2008, 12:44:11 PM
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I'd try to bruteforce RSA within my lifetime.
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I'd use it to try to figure out why they hell they call it a petaflop.
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machiavelli33 Reply #5 in World's Fastest Computer Unveiled at Los Almos — Posted June 10, 2008, 12:09:02 PM
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Though I say give it ten years and we'll be seeing these bloody things on display, sellin' for a thousand rocks a piece at Best Buy.
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Quote from: TGU on June 10, 2008, 11:59:22 AM
I'd use it to try to figure out why they hell they call it a petaflop.

Peta: a prefix indicating a factor of 1015. It's kilo, mega, giga, tera, peta, exa, zetta, yotta, harpa, groucha, chica.

FLOPS: floating point operations per second.

x petaflops: x times ten to the fifteenth floating operations per second.

1 petaflop: because in English a final 's' usually indicates a plural, so '1 petaflops' just doesn't sound right.
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K Reply #7 in World's Fastest Computer Unveiled at Los Almos — Posted June 10, 2008, 12:20:59 PM
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Quote from: phobos on June 10, 2008, 12:18:19 PM
harpa, groucha, chica

You.

Are fucking.

Kidding me.
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Kyle J Cardoza Reply #8 in World's Fastest Computer Unveiled at Los Almos — Posted June 10, 2008, 12:30:34 PM
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Quote from: K on June 10, 2008, 12:20:59 PM
You.

Are fucking.

Kidding me.

Yes, he is. Nothing higher than yotta- (1024) or lower than yocto- (10−24) is defined by SI, unless he can show us otherwise.
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I'll take American History for $2000 please, Alex.
But nice attempt, phobos.  Wikipedia wins again.
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sinic Reply #10 in World's Fastest Computer Unveiled at Los Almos — Posted June 10, 2008, 06:24:54 PM
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Oh, come on.  It was hilarious.

So, anyways, when it talks about "blades" in the computer what are those?
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I'll take American History for $2000 please, Alex.
The latest rage with servers, blade servers are ones they've boiled down the components to a keyboard sized component that can be housed in a larger server hub.
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Blades are really nice because it saves a ton of space.
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Quote from: phobos on June 10, 2008, 12:18:19 PM
harpa, groucha, chica.

Forgot zeppa. Wink

(Everyone always forgets poor Zeppo.)
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Quote from: TGU on June 10, 2008, 09:50:32 PM
Forgot zeppa. Wink

Actually, it was the presence of 'zetta' in the real list that inspired the theme for the extension :-)
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