Fujitsu Ships Parts for the Fastest Supercomputer

[Marcus Yam]

10 petaflops... a lot of flops.

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[areszues92]

woah...petaflops

 

[TheStealthyOne]

Please, don't ask if it can play Crysis.

 

[eklipz330]

what would they need all that computing power for?

 

[Tamz_msc]

How much power will it consume?

 

[scook9]

[citation][nom]eklipz330[/nom]what would they need all that computing power for?[/citation]
Things like discovering how the universe works and curing cancer

Both of which I am ok with

 

[microterf]

I really can't wait to see what uses they have for that much raw power.

 

[meat81]

[citation][nom]Tamz_msc[/nom]How much power will it consume?[/citation]

I am waiting for the first Ass to say "Not more than a GTX 480!"....

 

[d1rtyju1c3]

What a monster. That is over 5x faster than the jaguar. Amazing!
The Jaguar only beat the IBM roadrunner by .71 petaflop's and that was only after a CPU upgrade.

 

[djackson_dba]

[citation][nom]eklipz330[/nom]what would they need all that computing power for?[/citation]

Figuring out how they will pay for all that power draw?

 

[liveonc]

[citation][nom]djackson_dba[/nom]Figuring out how they will pay for all that power draw?[/citation]

Or maybe trying to figure out how they'll pay for the Fujitsu K? ;-)

 

[mlopinto2k1]

Why not a rack of cuda ready cards? Same thing. Cheaper.

 

[g00fysmiley]

that is a crazy amount of processing... but i'll wait till we get actual results before i believe the 10 petaflop claim

 

[shening]

just PetaFlops doesnt mean anything performance wise.

 

[cookoy]

and it's simply called "K". they don't waste time on such trivial task as coming up with a sophisticated name. that's Japanese efficiency.

 

[burnley14]

[citation][nom]cookoy[/nom]and it's simply called "K". they don't waste time on such trivial task as coming up with a sophisticated name. that's Japanese efficiency.[/citation]

This might be true, except every conversation about it is going to have to include:

"It doesn't have as much power as K. K? You don't know K? You know, the terribly named non-descriptive title of the Japanese supercomputer."

Very efficient.

 

[lamorpa]

[citation][nom]eklipz330[/nom]what would they need all that computing power for?[/citation]
computing

 

[jn77]

We were told a while back that Intel was falling behind... looks like it is upon us.

 

[Guest]

@mlopinto2k1

these arent Intel or even AMD chips, they SPARCs which are designed to be good at number crunching, architecturally not too dissimilar to the way GPGPU works in fact

 

[thebigt42]

[citation][nom]eklipz330[/nom]what would they need all that computing power for?[/citation]
For calculating the ultimate answer to life the universe and everything

 

[Guest]

just PetaFlops doesnt mean anything performance wise.

You do know a petaflop is a quadrillion computations per second. That's some pretty beefy performance if you ask me.

 

[zenebot]

[citation][nom]thebigt42[/nom]For calculating the ultimate answer to life the universe and everything[/citation]

Easy, that's 42. Can I have all the money spent on this project?

 

[decrypted]

Supercomputer for 2012... Desktop by 2016... Phone by 2020.

Imagine the folding on that one.

 

[thebigt42]

[citation][nom]zenebot[/nom]Easy, that's 42. Can I have all the money spent on this project?[/citation]
Maybe they are trying to find the ultimate question to which the answer is '42'

 

[loomis86]

[citation][nom]decrypted[/nom]Supercomputer for 2012... Desktop by 2016... Phone by 2020.Imagine the folding on that one.[/citation]

It might take a little longer than 10 years to have 10 petaflops in a cellphone.