IBM Has Plans for a 100 PFlop Supercomputer

[someoneelse]

er and they need this power for....???

 

[CaedenV]

man, I had a plan for one of these once...
too bad my unicorn ate it...

 

[jprahman]

Why can't ordinary software developers take a page or two off these highly parallel supercomputers? If the software that runs on these things can take advantage of thousands or millions of cores at once, why can't, for example, game developers even take advantage of four cores properly?

There is a huge difference between the problems game programmers have to solve and the problems supercomputers run. Supercomputing applications operate on HUGE data sets. Furthermore, the underlying problems on supercomputer being solved allow programmers can be solved complerely in parallel. Basically, each data element can be processed more or less independently, with only the occasional synchronization needed. Games on the other hand are full of serial code that must be run in a certain order, and unlike supercomputing there are few opportunities to simply spin up dozens (or thousands) or cores and have each core chew through each block independently.

 

[darkside_gamer7]

[citation][nom]jprahman[/nom]There is a huge difference between the problems game programmers have to solve and the problems supercomputers run. Supercomputing applications operate on HUGE data sets. Furthermore, the underlying problems on supercomputer being solved allow programmers can be solved complerely in parallel. Basically, each data element can be processed more or less independently, with only the occasional synchronization needed. Games on the other hand are full of serial code that must be run in a certain order, and unlike supercomputing there are few opportunities to simply spin up dozens (or thousands) or cores and have each core chew through each block independently.[/citation]

Spell check pls...got a little confused

 

[Guest]

You will all be dead when this power will come in desktop size Unless people find out about genetic manipulation to live longer. No war no diseases...etc
If it's even possible to make a supercomputer hat small and the evolution of hardware stays the same.(cloud computing controlling super computers like this from home...that's just not the same

 

[bin1127]

I bet it will be a big Flop.