Military Supercomputer Sets Record

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Greg_BE Send message Joined: 30 May 06 Posts: 5690 Credit: 5,859,226 RAC: 53	Message 53598 - Posted: 9 Jun 2008, 11:14:50 UTC Last modified: 9 Jun 2008, 11:15:29 UTC http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/09/technology/09petaflops.html?th&emc=th Wiki:IBM_Roadrunner ID: 53598 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

The_Bad_Penguin Send message Joined: 5 Jun 06 Posts: 2751 Credit: 4,271,025 RAC: 0	Message 53600 - Posted: 9 Jun 2008, 11:29:27 UTC Last modified: 9 Jun 2008, 11:47:15 UTC the belgian beat me to it !!! p.s. whats up with your rac? are you feeding it steroids ?! ID: 53600 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

jaxom1 Send message Joined: 5 Jun 06 Posts: 180 Credit: 1,586,889 RAC: 0	Message 53602 - Posted: 9 Jun 2008, 15:39:36 UTC - in response to Message 53600. I like that they are using modified PS3 chips and AMD chips. Blending the two seems like a very cool idea. the belgian beat me to it !!! p.s. whats up with your rac? are you feeding it steroids ?! ID: 53602 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

The_Bad_Penguin Send message Joined: 5 Jun 06 Posts: 2751 Credit: 4,271,025 RAC: 0	Message 53609 - Posted: 9 Jun 2008, 20:05:10 UTC Last modified: 9 Jun 2008, 20:10:42 UTC Now if only they would use those modified PS3 chips in a PS3 !!! And for Intel-land: Nehalem: 8 physical cores / 16 Virtual Cores ID: 53609 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

rochester new york Send message Joined: 2 Jul 06 Posts: 2842 Credit: 2,020,043 RAC: 0	Message 53937 - Posted: 23 Jun 2008, 19:32:45 UTC - in response to Message 53598. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/09/technology/09petaflops.html?th&emc=th Wiki:IBM_Roadrunner http://www.lanl.gov/news/index.php/fuseaction/home.story/story_id/13602 ID: 53937 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Stephen Send message Joined: 26 Apr 08 Posts: 32 Credit: 429,286 RAC: 0	Message 55290 - Posted: 25 Aug 2008, 22:34:21 UTC that's all fine and dandy.. though it would be better if they ran rosetta@home clients on their super computer when its not being used for weapons research (whatever that is) ID: 55290 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote