http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/ibms-bluegene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-3-years-running/ Engadget Comments for IBM's BlueGene/L: world's fastest supercomputer, 3 years running http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2009 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/ibms-bluegene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-3-years-running/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/ibms-bluegene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-3-years-running/Jan 26th 2008 7:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/ibms-bluegene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-3-years-running/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/ibms-bluegene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-3-years-running/Nov 13th 2007 7:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/ibms-bluegene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-3-years-running/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/ibms-bluegene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-3-years-running/Nov 13th 2007 7:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/ibms-bluegene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-3-years-running/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/ibms-bluegene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-3-years-running/Nov 13th 2007 7:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/ibms-bluegene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-3-years-running/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/ibms-bluegene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-3-years-running/
Please, no more Doom or overlords or blenders for a while. I'm not asking; I'm begging.]]>Nov 13th 2007 7:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/ibms-bluegene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-3-years-running/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/ibms-bluegene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-3-years-running/
since when were you the cliche police, get off your high horse.]]>Nov 13th 2007 8:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/ibms-bluegene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-3-years-running/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/ibms-bluegene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-3-years-running/Nov 13th 2007 9:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/ibms-bluegene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-3-years-running/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/ibms-bluegene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-3-years-running/..cut..
Please, no more Doom or overlords or blenders for a while. I'm not asking; I'm begging."
then
"spyyder @ Nov 13th 2007 8:08AM

since when were you the cliche police, get off your high horse."

Here is a guy begging someone to stop using cliches, and you are refering to him as police?

I must ask, where are you from that have police that begs for anything? ]]>Nov 13th 2007 10:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/ibms-bluegene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-3-years-running/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/ibms-bluegene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-3-years-running/
JC: Booorrrrinnnnggg]]>Nov 13th 2007 10:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/ibms-bluegene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-3-years-running/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/ibms-bluegene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-3-years-running/Nov 13th 2007 10:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/ibms-bluegene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-3-years-running/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/ibms-bluegene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-3-years-running/Nov 13th 2007 7:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/ibms-bluegene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-3-years-running/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/ibms-bluegene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-3-years-running/Nov 13th 2007 7:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/ibms-bluegene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-3-years-running/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/ibms-bluegene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-3-years-running/Nov 13th 2007 6:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/ibms-bluegene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-3-years-running/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/ibms-bluegene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-3-years-running/
yes It will run all the copies of doom that are available on earth at the same time

and if you think you are a team of uber CS pros.. it will even play CS with your team.. its each row is a player
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World domination? This is IBM, not Google. :p]]>Nov 13th 2007 9:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/ibms-bluegene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-3-years-running/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/ibms-bluegene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-3-years-running/Nov 13th 2007 10:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/ibms-bluegene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-3-years-running/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/ibms-bluegene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-3-years-running/Nov 13th 2007 8:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/ibms-bluegene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-3-years-running/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/ibms-bluegene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-3-years-running/Nov 13th 2007 8:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/ibms-bluegene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-3-years-running/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/ibms-bluegene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-3-years-running/Nov 13th 2007 8:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/ibms-bluegene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-3-years-running/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/ibms-bluegene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-3-years-running/Nov 13th 2007 12:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/ibms-bluegene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-3-years-running/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/ibms-bluegene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-3-years-running/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Roadrunner
Seems IBM is using the CELL CPU for supercomputers in the future.
Of course these are so called 'full' versions and not the PS3 ones, but still.
]]>Nov 13th 2007 4:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/ibms-bluegene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-3-years-running/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/ibms-bluegene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-3-years-running/Nov 13th 2007 8:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/ibms-bluegene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-3-years-running/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/ibms-bluegene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-3-years-running/Nov 13th 2007 8:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/ibms-bluegene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-3-years-running/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/ibms-bluegene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-3-years-running/Located in the Terascale Simulation Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, BlueGene/L is used by scientists at Livermore, Los Alamos, and Sandia National Laboratories. The 360-teraFLOPS machine handles many challenging scientific simulations, including ab initio molecular dynamics; three-dimensional (3D) dislocation dynamics; and turbulence, shock, and instability phenomena in hydrodynamics. It is also a computational science research machine for evaluating advanced computer architectures.]]>Nov 13th 2007 9:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/ibms-bluegene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-3-years-running/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/ibms-bluegene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-3-years-running/
In short, it figures out what happens when nuclear weapons explode or tsunamis and earthquakes hit.

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That's it?]]>Nov 13th 2007 10:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/ibms-bluegene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-3-years-running/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/ibms-bluegene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-3-years-running/Nov 13th 2007 7:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/ibms-bluegene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-3-years-running/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/ibms-bluegene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-3-years-running/Nov 15th 2007 5:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/ibms-bluegene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-3-years-running/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/ibms-bluegene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-3-years-running/
]]>Nov 13th 2007 10:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/ibms-bluegene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-3-years-running/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/ibms-bluegene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-3-years-running/Nov 13th 2007 10:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/ibms-bluegene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-3-years-running/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/ibms-bluegene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-3-years-running/ https://asc.llnl.gov/computing_resources/bluegenel/simulations.html

"does it have its own integrated fully functional AI?" -- Umm. no it runs "Operating System CNK/SLES 9" some one gets to tell you what that is.

http://www.top500.org/system/8968

"is it voice activated, or do you still need a keyboard and a mouse? what about video output? does it use a VGA out or DVI? what about HDMI? can it support multiple (or even 2) monitors?" -- its accessible via ssh

https://asc.llnl.gov/computing_resources/bluegenel/basics/

"Can it tell me how many drops of water are in the Chesapeake bay?" -- if you ask nicely

"what happens if someone flips the circuit breaker?" -- my guess is it would turn off


"does it require its own nuclear power plant?" -- it draws 1.5 megawatts

https://asc.llnl.gov/computing_resources/bluegenel/configuration.html

"How many processors does it have?" -- 131072

http://www.top500.org/system/8968 65,536 dual-processor compute nodes Times 2

"What class processors are they?" -- Umm. PowerPC 440 700 MHz (2.8 GFlops)

http://www.top500.org/system/8968

"How much ram does it have, ... " -- 73728 GB

http://www.top500.org/system/8968

"how much ram does it use regularly?" -- depends on the program.

"Are there any terminals to access it?" -- its accessible via ssh

https://asc.llnl.gov/computing_resources/bluegenel/basics/

"how much of our precious natural resources is it taking up trying to keep the stupid machine turned on?" -- well it draws 1.5 megawatts figure it out

https://asc.llnl.gov/computing_resources/bluegenel/configuration.html

"If a deer farts in the woods, does this thing know about it?" -- Umm. no.

"does it work on a wireless network? are they using a token ring network to connect them? what about gigabit Ethernet, or does it use terabit Ethernet? fiber, twisted pair, or coax?" -- it uses gigabit I think someone else can decifer this diagram

https://asc.llnl.gov/computing_resources/bluegenel/ethernet.html

"they sure know how to tell you absolutely nothing about something in a news article." -- try looking things up for yourself some time this took me 10-20 min










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also feel free to send as much money as you'd like :)

(repost sorry forgot to hit reply)]]>Nov 13th 2007 2:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/ibms-bluegene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-3-years-running/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/ibms-bluegene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-3-years-running/Nov 13th 2007 4:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/ibms-bluegene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-3-years-running/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/ibms-bluegene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-3-years-running/Nov 13th 2007 5:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/ibms-bluegene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-3-years-running/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/ibms-bluegene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-3-years-running/Nov 15th 2007 5:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/ibms-bluegene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-3-years-running/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/ibms-bluegene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-3-years-running/
I ask the question again: if a single PS3 theoretically pumps out 2 TFLOPS, is it feasible for around 250 PS3s to be linked together and beat this supercomputer?]]>Nov 13th 2007 12:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/ibms-bluegene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-3-years-running/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/ibms-bluegene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-3-years-running/
http://www.stanford.edu/group/pandegroup/folding/FAQ-PS3.html]]>Nov 13th 2007 12:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/ibms-bluegene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-3-years-running/http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/13/ibms-bluegene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-3-years-running/Nov 13th 2007 1:07PM