tdktank59

Jul 5 2006, 05:42 AM

QUOTE(delivi @ Jul 4 2006, 01:11 PM)

The fastest computer on Earth just got a whole lot faster. According to data gathered by the Top500 list (www.top500.org), IBM’s Blue Gene/L supercomputer, which runs at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, has dramatically extended its lead over competitors by achieving speeds of 280.6 trillion floating-point operations per second (teraflops)—more than double the 136.8-teraflop speeds the system clocked in June. The achievement, along with other advancements from supercomputers in the U.S., mark the completion of a ten-year to develop supercomputers for entry-level simulations that support a future free from nuclear testing. Blue Gene/L is primarily used to simulate and evaluate the safety and security of the nation’s nuclear weapons. Until 2004, Japan’s Earth Simulator had spent years ranked as the fastest computer in the world. It has a maximum speed of 35.86 teraflops

DAMN!!!!!!!!!!!! thats fast... but there is no use to this to the normal consumer let alone the cost for one of these... either way if you have to ask for the price you cant afford it lol...

 

 

 

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DF2Squad

Sep 26 2006, 10:01 PM

DAMN!!! I am suprised... but again I think with the technology that we're at right now, I think we're a bit behind... but reading this article and doing some research, that stuff is pretty interesting.

*Hope those kinds of super-computers become for home use in the near future .

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