Nvidia Powering World's Most Powerful Supercomputer

[mlopinto2k1]

Wow, didn't see this coming. At all. Never. Yes, yes... now I understand. About damn time!

 

[youssef 2010]

Will it run Metro?????

 

[jivdis1x]

18,688 16-core CPUs to do 15% of the load and 7000 to 18,000 Nvidia Kepler GPUs to do the rest? Why don't reduce the the cpu and add more GPU. Does the cpu cost less? And why the exact number for CPUs and a range of 11000 GPUs?

 

[soccerdocks]

This still doesn't come close to what the human brain is capable of, or at least according to this.
http://www.macromeme.com/dog/super-human-infograph.html

 

[soccerdocks]

That still doesn't come close to the processing power of the human brain, and nowhere near the efficiency (at least according to this).

http://www.macromeme.com/dog/super-human-infograph.html

 

[soccerdocks]

That still doesn't come close to the processing power of the human brain, and nowhere near the efficiency (at least according to this).

http://www.macromeme.com/dog/super-human-infograph.html

 

[Guest]

@kcorp2003 "Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA; /ɪnˈvɪdiə/ in-vid-ee-ə)[1] is an American global technology company based in Santa Clara, California. The company invented the graphics processing unit (GPU) in 1999."

 

[ghnader hsmithot]

Go Nvidia!

 

[andrewfy]

Turns out GPUs are pretty good at Linpack.

 

[Guest]

Aricle Title should read: U.S. Department of Energy builds bitcoin miner to repair U.S. economy.

 

[alchemy69]

"Titan will be used for a variety of important research projects, including the development of more commercially viable biofuels, cleaner burning engines, safer nuclear energy, and more efficient solar power."

...but mostly how to build better bombs, because that's where the money is.

 

[eddieroolz]

Just a few years ago we were amazed when the IBM Roadrunner achieved 1.7PFLOPS. Now, we're at a proposed 20PFLOPS. Amazing!

 

[FloKid]

I can just see one of the scientist burst from laughter when the thing says "Please Wait"

 

[Asgaroth]

Now, let's fold@home on it

 

[englandr753]

Now I want to see this thing running 5,000 SSD's in raid with 10,000 gigs of ram. How many seconds would it take to load windows?

It would also be funny to watch the new guy get the run around when the two scientists send him to the other end of the system to put the installation disk in the cd rom drive...

 

[clonazepam]

Well... its a good thing there's a nuclear power plant nearby... surely not by coincidence either. It's gonna need it.

 

[stingstang]

The brain can be overclocked. It's just classified information atm.

 

[EL-DIZZLE]

But can it make me a sandwich?

 

[shortbus25]

I'm sorry I live about 35 minutes from ORNL and have seen the their supercomputer JAGUAR it is nice. Can I say nice enough, there is no reason for them to build another computer other than the current pissing contest with other countries. I wish the US would find something better to do with our money like pay off national debt so china doesn't own us or something nope lets spend a couple billion and build a computer so fast it can tell us that we are stupid for building it in 4700 languages including ones we don't even know yet... Really!!!

 

[theconsolegamer]

[citation][nom]stingstang[/nom]The brain can be overclocked. It's just classified information atm.[/citation]
Few decades ago I hit gazillion yotahz with MSI Afterburner on my dog brain, he told me he would be back soon after he filled the world with BS but he never came back. If you find him, please, make him go home. He's name is Bill Gates.

 

[nebun]

isn't the department of energy supposed to save energy? i think they are using more energy at the moment....fail

 

[verbalizer]

score big for nVidia..
I have family in that area and maybe one day I'll get a chance to see it.

 

[upgrade_1977]

So.... AMD + Nvidia = most powerful computer on the planet?!?!
Who'd a thunk it...

 

[upgrade_1977]

[citation][nom]EL-DIZZLE[/nom]But can it make me a sandwich?[/citation]
Lol, nice..

 

[Chef_Boyardee]

[citation][nom]shortbus25[/nom]I'm sorry I live about 35 minutes from ORNL and have seen the their supercomputer JAGUAR it is nice. Can I say nice enough, there is no reason for them to build another computer other than the current pissing contest with other countries. I wish the US would find something better to do with our money like pay off national debt so china doesn't own us or something nope lets spend a couple billion and build a computer so fast it can tell us that we are stupid for building it in 4700 languages including ones we don't even know yet... Really!!![/citation]
It's more like the US is owned by a bunch of countries.
China's GDP is still about 5 trillion with the us at about 15 trillion. China owns almost one trillion of our debt. Japan is almost equal. The UK is at half of that. The world in total carries about a third of the USA's 15 trillion dollar debt. Scary.