AMD-powered Jaguar is 'Fastest Supercomputer'

[JMcEntegart]

Cray Inc.'s AMD-powered Jaguar system has snagged the coveted title of fastest computer in the world.

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[lordcrazex]

one of the many remarkable achievements; brought to you by AMD

 

[microterf]

That is insane. I would like to see a price tag for that much power

 

[jenesuispasbavard]

[citation][nom]zipzoomflyhigh[/nom]Can it play Crysis though?[/citation]
Probably without any help from a GPU.

 

[LATTEH]

HOT DAMN!

 

[DeadCat]

Can it play Crysis though?

That joke it's old and I think I hate it!

 

[darkknight22]

Would be great to type up my word documents on

 

[sunflier]

[citation][nom]zipzoomflyhigh[/nom]Can it play Crysis though?[/citation]

[citation][nom]deadcat[/nom]That joke it's old and I think I hate it![/citation]

We ALL hate it!!!

 

[papasmurf]

I wonder how much of that computing power they actually use at one time. It seems to me that the way applications are written these days 222,162 threads would be hard to use.

 

[mathiasschnell]

"petaflops per second"

Redundant. FLOPS = FLoating point Operations Per Second.

 

[triplanetary]

Dammit, stop saying petaflops per second.

 

[Guest]

[citation][nom]papasmurf[/nom]I wonder how much of that computing power they actually use at one time. It seems to me that the way applications are written these days 222,162 threads would be hard to use.[/citation]

Um, they aren't spending millions and millions of dollars JUST for epeen inches. The scientific applications for which these kinds of computers are used can in fact utilize most of the available CPU time.

 

[JofaMang]

Get the media to stop calling it the HIV virus, too, while you are at it.

 

[cekasone]

2 points to AMD

 

[socrates047]

this just sounds awsome, hopefully it is used for the good of humanity.
P.S: hopefully doen't take over the world lol

 

[welah]

I think petaflops per second would be a measure of acceleration - That would be pretty impressive:
1.759 * 10^15 operations per second per second; it out to be up in the Exaflop range after only a few minutes!

That's Damned impressive!

 

[tester24]

A win for AMD.

 

[chunkymonster]

[citation][nom]zipzoomflyhigh[/nom]Can it play Crysis though?[/citation]
Can you play the skin flute?

 

[Stryter]

[citation][nom]D_Kuhn[/nom]Must take a power station to run the thing... and I bet it generates enough Global Warming all by itself (between coal burning power generation and 40,000 HSF's) that Al Gore cries every time it powers up.[/citation]

Don't worry, it's at Oakridge, they have an entire nuclear power plant to run it, lol.

 

[akhodjaev]

It would be interesting to see what data was analyzed on the previous Jaguar and the current one and comparison on achievements. and who are their clients? Is movie makers render their HD videos? Sony pictures? Columbia Pictures? This is interesting....

 

[SAL-e]

[citation][nom]zipzoomflyhigh[/nom]Can it play Crysis though?[/citation]
Can Crysis run on Linux?!
No. I am sorry you can't run Crysis. Go cry to EA.

Or quit making stupid jokes.

 

[SuckRaven]

"petaflops per second"

Redundant. FLOPS = FLoating point Operations Per Second.

Not only is it redundant, but if you think about it, shouldn't it actually be FPOPS?

 

[JMcEntegart]

[citation][nom]mathiasschnell[/nom]"petaflops per second"Redundant. FLOPS = FLoating point Operations Per Second.[/citation]

Should be fixed now.

 

[mustwarnothers]

To be honest, I doubt even this computer can run Crysis effectively.

Judging by the fact that a 3 year old game still can't run at max settings on even some of the highest end consumer hardware, it's pretty obvious it's just a poorly coded piece of shit.

 

[Guest]

petaflops? it runs at petaphile operation speed!