Titan Supercomputer Packs 46,645,248 Nvidia CUDA Cores

[Guest]

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has unveiled a new monstrous supercomputer flagship.

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[Tuishimi]

How much did it cost, and does the DOE need it?

 

[kracker]

Oh Wow.
As said above, wonder what the cost was :O

 

[mrmaia]

Titan is ridiculously SICK today, but it makes me wonder if such massive power will ever reach personal computers - and if it does, how bloated will softwares be by then.

 

[Jerky_san]

Its RAM size is more than any SAN size I've ever worked with.. that's kind of sad..

 

[Guest]

But can it run Crysis?

 

[noblerabbit]

this is already obsolete.

 

[mousseng]

That computer is almost 3 times the size of my house. :c

 

[southernshark]

[citation][nom]CryTekKk[/nom]But can it run Crysis?[/citation]


I'm guessing with that many over 46 million CUDA Cores... that yes it can play Crisis.

 

[Guest]

i have always wondered though... what the hell they use these systems for. I know science and simulations but whenever we hear about the latest and greatest super computer, we never hear about the job they are going to perform.. hmmmm..

almost reminds me of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, where the computer had to keep building it self over and over until it could finally compute the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, The Universe, and Everything..

oh well just a random Monster fueled thought and question. and finally the question that is asked most often of new computers.. can play Crysis???

have a great day.

 

[etichi]

it will need a department of energy to run it too

 

[kracker]

[citation][nom]CryTekKk[/nom]But can it run Crysis?[/citation]

I would hope so.

 

[Estix]

By my estimate, in about 30 years, this will be considered underpowered for a cell phone.

 

[Guest]

That is a MONSTER!

 

[gdub]

The wikipedia article says that they "replaced the internals" by switching out old blades with new ones (sounds like a gillette razor!), so what did they do with the old internals? Donate them? Scrap them?

 

[adgjlsfhk]

This will probably be used for really far out weather forecasting or the like. seams like kind of a waste given that it could easily run several hundred games of Crysis on ultra detail.

 

[m32]

I bet people will still itch about it not converting video fast enough...

 

[Tuishimi]

[citation][nom]gdub[/nom]The wikipedia article says that they "replaced the internals" by switching out old blades with new ones (sounds like a gillette razor!), so what did they do with the old internals? Donate them? Scrap them?[/citation]

They probably write them off then let employees take them home...

 

[goodguy713]

i wonder if this could convert a blue ray movie in like 5 seconds

 

[warezme]

As Scotty would say, "..oh, how quaint"

 

[kimbonmoon]

Holodeck, "give me Megan Fox"

 

[ttg_Avenged]

Lol, just trying to imagine Metro or Crysis at 1 million res, rofl.. But can it run, Galaga?

 

[nebun]

and they need this because????

 

[xendrome]

[citation][nom]nebun[/nom]and they need this because????[/citation]

Modeling/Forecasting, etc... running simulations, do some research...

 

[yorgos]

aside from the stupid people asking stupid questions as usual and they should get a 2 month mute penalty,
I would like to learn why the prefered AMD interlagos over some other intel xeon.
Is this happening because linux actually prefers true cores over HT so they had one option or does this mean that bulldozer/pilledriver have a good side that games and common apps are incapable of utilizing properly those modules?

I was just wondering, now let the nerd gamers rage do its job.