IBM Working on 10 Petaflop Supercomputer

[powerbaselx]

[citation][nom]buwish[/nom]Quite impressive. I can't even imagine the kind of processing power that beast will have once it is completed. Funny how it will be based at the U of I, as I recall the "super computer" in 2001 A Space Odyssey was "built" there. No idea why I pointed that out, but hey, it's a good movie.[/citation]

A few days ago i saw on TV that "HAL" computer from 2001 movie, was named using each previous letter in the alphabet from each letter from "IBM". 🙂

 

[Honis]

[citation][nom]B-Unit[/nom]Yes, the part your missing is a magic little thing called x86. IBM isn't licenced to produce chips featuring the x86 instruction set, only Intel, AMD and VIA are.[/citation]If IBM wanted to get into the consumer processor market, they would. They could buy up AMD or Via with little to no debt required. They are staying more flexable by not entering the market directly, for the reasons powerbaselx listed. If they want to hit up Intel for a product, they can. If they want to hit up AMD for a product, they can. They are still a powerhouse of technology, earning more money than Intel (Intel: hundreds of millions last quarter, IBM: billions last quarter).

I would have said net profits of Intel, AMD, and Via combined, but AMD and Via brought the total down...

 

[liquidsnake718]

192 GB per second...... at peak, with latencies so fast.... I can see all kinds of info can be retained and sent in seconds...... all the more for homelan security to gather your data and store it somewhere else in seconds by the terabytes.....

 

[liquidsnake718]

[citation][nom]Honis[/nom]If IBM wanted to get into the consumer processor market, they would. They could buy up AMD or Via with little to no debt required. They are staying more flexable by not entering the market directly, for the reasons powerbaselx listed. If they want to hit up Intel for a product, they can. If they want to hit up AMD for a product, they can. They are still a powerhouse of technology, earning more money than Intel (Intel: hundreds of millions last quarter, IBM: billions last quarter).I would have said net profits of Intel, AMD, and Via combined, but AMD and Via brought the total down...INTERGALACTIC BLACK MONOLITH[/citation]


INTERGALACTIC BLACK MONOLITH

 

[liquidsnake718]

WAIT I CAME UP WITH THE TERM WHY DID IT GO TO HONIS QUOTE???

 

[wildwell]

How fast is that new Chinese super computer suppose to be?

 

[El_Capitan]

[citation][nom]omnimodis78[/nom]Seriously? How old are you?[/citation]
Old enough to play Crysis.

 

[back_by_demand]

Why are people banging on about IBM not being licensed to use x86 when they have pretty much all the worlds fastest supercomputers?

Maybe IBM have shown up x86 for the tawdry rubbish that it is?

 

[mlopinto2k1]

[citation][nom]pbrigido[/nom]I think I will hurt the next person who makes a reference to a computer and its ability to play Crysis.[/citation]Did you actually just cyberthreat on Tom's Hardware?