One reason there's so much fuss (
and delay) over the upcoming PlayStation 3 platform is the fact that it sports those new
Cell processors jointly developed with Sony and Toshiba. Now those Cell procs are about to find themselves pumping away at the heart of a new $35 million
supercomputer for Los Alamos National Laboratory. But this won't be just supercomputer mind you, IBM is hoping to reclaim the title of the world's fastest once completed in 2007. Dubbed Roadrunner,
ACME IBM plans to jump from
280-teraflops to a full petaflop performance by combining
AMD Opteron blade servers and Cell-based accelerator systems. A performance threshold achieved earlier this year by
NEC's MDGrape-3, the supercomputer behind new pharmaceutical drugs and the curious taste and powerful punch of Mad Dog's 20/20 Red Grape Malt beverage. Mmm, grape.
posted Sep 6th 2006 8:05AM
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I wanna see some Xeon action instead...C'mon Intel and Apple
That thing must be some intense F@H folder, ask em to make it join team engadget :P
Fine, but can you play quake on it?
The Cell processor was never the reason for either of the PS3's delays. You can chalk those up to Blu-ray and Blu-ray.
I wonder if those angled ends actually contain any working components...
And Windows will still take 10 minutes to boot up.
pffft....my ENIAC in my backyard is better than THAT!
Pop culture references are quite banal.
So. NEC built a 1 petaflop super computer for $9 million, while IBM is making a 1 petaflop supercomputer for $35 million?
I can't help but wonder if we will have petaflop desktops in 40 years? I think it's safe to say that we all have the equivalent of a supercomputer on our desks, when you compare processing power to the fastest machines of the past.
didnt the japaneese make a pentaflop supercomp for 7million? What makes this one so special?
Will, the angled ends are there to direct air flow. Cold air comes up from the floor, then the angled plenum redirects it to flow horizontally through the rack, and then another angled plenum redirects the hot exhaust air up towards the ceiling.
40 years?
10 at the most
M.Rod, When we have super computers on our desks will they still be super?
Skylab became self-aware at 60 teraflops. We are all doomed, rise up again the machines before it's too late!
The NEC computer was designed for one specific task. That is pharmaceutical research, nothing else. I am sure this computer is more versatile.
I bet Doom3 won't run smoothly on it.. :D
Everything IBM costs more... -_-
Am I the only enamoured of the MD20/20 reference? If only you could have worked the Bling-Bling Berry in there somehow...(I'll be looking for that in future post Mr. Ricker).
+2 points John
1 petaflop, that's how many ps3 put together?
I, for one, welcome our new petaflop overlord.
cray's doing an opteron based teraflop'er too. they have 24,000 quad core K8's. 96000 processor cores?!?!?