http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/14/britains-new-fastest-supercomputer-makes-it-ominous-debut/ Engadget Comments for Britain's new fastest supercomputer makes its ominous debut 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/2008/01/14/britains-new-fastest-supercomputer-makes-it-ominous-debut/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/14/britains-new-fastest-supercomputer-makes-it-ominous-debut/Jan 14th 2008 2:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/14/britains-new-fastest-supercomputer-makes-it-ominous-debut/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/14/britains-new-fastest-supercomputer-makes-it-ominous-debut/Jan 14th 2008 3:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/14/britains-new-fastest-supercomputer-makes-it-ominous-debut/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/14/britains-new-fastest-supercomputer-makes-it-ominous-debut/Jan 14th 2008 2:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/14/britains-new-fastest-supercomputer-makes-it-ominous-debut/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/14/britains-new-fastest-supercomputer-makes-it-ominous-debut/
Ummm, i'm sure all desktop PCs do more than 5250 calculations per second :/]]>Jan 14th 2008 2:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/14/britains-new-fastest-supercomputer-makes-it-ominous-debut/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/14/britains-new-fastest-supercomputer-makes-it-ominous-debut/Jan 14th 2008 2:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/14/britains-new-fastest-supercomputer-makes-it-ominous-debut/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/14/britains-new-fastest-supercomputer-makes-it-ominous-debut/
"It is now possible to buy a system capable of 15 Giga Floating Point Operations Per Second (GFLOPS) for about $750."

source: http://www.linux-mag.com/microsites.php?site=business-class-hpc&sid=main&p=4088

a GFLOP is a billion FLOPS, yet i don't know if this directly means 15billion calculations, or much less due to it being an 'operation' but from my knowledge, it can't be only 63 million calculations...]]>Jan 14th 2008 2:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/14/britains-new-fastest-supercomputer-makes-it-ominous-debut/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/14/britains-new-fastest-supercomputer-makes-it-ominous-debut/
source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/gallery/2008/jan/03/supercomputers?picture=331931869]]>Jan 14th 2008 2:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/14/britains-new-fastest-supercomputer-makes-it-ominous-debut/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/14/britains-new-fastest-supercomputer-makes-it-ominous-debut/Jan 14th 2008 2:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/14/britains-new-fastest-supercomputer-makes-it-ominous-debut/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/14/britains-new-fastest-supercomputer-makes-it-ominous-debut/LOL.. no kidding.

@engadget
Silly rabbit, megaflops are for kids. That Trillions of floating point operations per second (TeraFlops)]]>Jan 14th 2008 6:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/14/britains-new-fastest-supercomputer-makes-it-ominous-debut/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/14/britains-new-fastest-supercomputer-makes-it-ominous-debut/Jan 14th 2008 2:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/14/britains-new-fastest-supercomputer-makes-it-ominous-debut/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/14/britains-new-fastest-supercomputer-makes-it-ominous-debut/Jan 14th 2008 2:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/14/britains-new-fastest-supercomputer-makes-it-ominous-debut/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/14/britains-new-fastest-supercomputer-makes-it-ominous-debut/Jan 14th 2008 2:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/14/britains-new-fastest-supercomputer-makes-it-ominous-debut/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/14/britains-new-fastest-supercomputer-makes-it-ominous-debut/Jan 14th 2008 3:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/14/britains-new-fastest-supercomputer-makes-it-ominous-debut/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/14/britains-new-fastest-supercomputer-makes-it-ominous-debut/Jan 15th 2008 12:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/14/britains-new-fastest-supercomputer-makes-it-ominous-debut/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/14/britains-new-fastest-supercomputer-makes-it-ominous-debut/Jan 14th 2008 2:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/14/britains-new-fastest-supercomputer-makes-it-ominous-debut/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/14/britains-new-fastest-supercomputer-makes-it-ominous-debut/Jan 14th 2008 2:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/14/britains-new-fastest-supercomputer-makes-it-ominous-debut/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/14/britains-new-fastest-supercomputer-makes-it-ominous-debut/
Be afraid, Britain. Be very afraid.]]>Jan 14th 2008 2:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/14/britains-new-fastest-supercomputer-makes-it-ominous-debut/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/14/britains-new-fastest-supercomputer-makes-it-ominous-debut/Jan 14th 2008 2:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/14/britains-new-fastest-supercomputer-makes-it-ominous-debut/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/14/britains-new-fastest-supercomputer-makes-it-ominous-debut/Jan 14th 2008 3:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/14/britains-new-fastest-supercomputer-makes-it-ominous-debut/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/14/britains-new-fastest-supercomputer-makes-it-ominous-debut/Jan 14th 2008 3:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/14/britains-new-fastest-supercomputer-makes-it-ominous-debut/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/14/britains-new-fastest-supercomputer-makes-it-ominous-debut/
"Oh gosh, this makes me so cross I can hardly type!

"You are very quick to befriend the British public when it comes rallying support to your Folding@home campaign, but the thinly disguised hull of a friendship all but disappears during comeptition time; A relationship works both ways you know!

"And don't you give us any of that nonsense about your lawyers not allowing foreign entrants! In times gone by you've held international competitions without making a song and dance about it, so we know you are lying, you scallywags!"

Or similar.]]>Jan 15th 2008 7:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/14/britains-new-fastest-supercomputer-makes-it-ominous-debut/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/14/britains-new-fastest-supercomputer-makes-it-ominous-debut/Jan 14th 2008 7:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/14/britains-new-fastest-supercomputer-makes-it-ominous-debut/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/14/britains-new-fastest-supercomputer-makes-it-ominous-debut/
Haha. You made my day...]]>Jan 14th 2008 6:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/14/britains-new-fastest-supercomputer-makes-it-ominous-debut/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/14/britains-new-fastest-supercomputer-makes-it-ominous-debut/Jan 14th 2008 2:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/14/britains-new-fastest-supercomputer-makes-it-ominous-debut/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/14/britains-new-fastest-supercomputer-makes-it-ominous-debut/Jan 14th 2008 3:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/14/britains-new-fastest-supercomputer-makes-it-ominous-debut/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/14/britains-new-fastest-supercomputer-makes-it-ominous-debut/Jan 14th 2008 3:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/14/britains-new-fastest-supercomputer-makes-it-ominous-debut/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/14/britains-new-fastest-supercomputer-makes-it-ominous-debut/Jan 14th 2008 3:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/14/britains-new-fastest-supercomputer-makes-it-ominous-debut/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/14/britains-new-fastest-supercomputer-makes-it-ominous-debut/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minor_characters_from_The_Hitchhiker's_Guide_to_the_Galaxy#Hactar]]>Jan 14th 2008 3:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/14/britains-new-fastest-supercomputer-makes-it-ominous-debut/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/14/britains-new-fastest-supercomputer-makes-it-ominous-debut/Jan 14th 2008 3:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/14/britains-new-fastest-supercomputer-makes-it-ominous-debut/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/14/britains-new-fastest-supercomputer-makes-it-ominous-debut/Jan 14th 2008 3:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/14/britains-new-fastest-supercomputer-makes-it-ominous-debut/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/14/britains-new-fastest-supercomputer-makes-it-ominous-debut/
On the upside it might just run Vista at a speedy rate....]]>Jan 14th 2008 4:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/14/britains-new-fastest-supercomputer-makes-it-ominous-debut/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/14/britains-new-fastest-supercomputer-makes-it-ominous-debut/Jan 14th 2008 3:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/14/britains-new-fastest-supercomputer-makes-it-ominous-debut/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/14/britains-new-fastest-supercomputer-makes-it-ominous-debut/Jan 14th 2008 4:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/14/britains-new-fastest-supercomputer-makes-it-ominous-debut/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/14/britains-new-fastest-supercomputer-makes-it-ominous-debut/Too much folding@home damaged my day one 60GB PS3! Altaïr never looked so bad ;^(...
http://www.eternal-champions.com/images/ac_ps3_09.jpg
And this is the tame game shot. More pics for other games available...]]>Jan 14th 2008 4:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/14/britains-new-fastest-supercomputer-makes-it-ominous-debut/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/14/britains-new-fastest-supercomputer-makes-it-ominous-debut/Jan 14th 2008 4:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/14/britains-new-fastest-supercomputer-makes-it-ominous-debut/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/14/britains-new-fastest-supercomputer-makes-it-ominous-debut/
AKA "monitor Britain's 100,000 CCTVs."]]>Jan 14th 2008 5:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/14/britains-new-fastest-supercomputer-makes-it-ominous-debut/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/14/britains-new-fastest-supercomputer-makes-it-ominous-debut/Jan 14th 2008 5:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/14/britains-new-fastest-supercomputer-makes-it-ominous-debut/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/14/britains-new-fastest-supercomputer-makes-it-ominous-debut/Jan 14th 2008 5:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/14/britains-new-fastest-supercomputer-makes-it-ominous-debut/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/14/britains-new-fastest-supercomputer-makes-it-ominous-debut/Jan 14th 2008 9:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/14/britains-new-fastest-supercomputer-makes-it-ominous-debut/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/14/britains-new-fastest-supercomputer-makes-it-ominous-debut/
HECToR!!]]>Jan 15th 2008 6:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/14/britains-new-fastest-supercomputer-makes-it-ominous-debut/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/14/britains-new-fastest-supercomputer-makes-it-ominous-debut/Jan 14th 2008 11:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/14/britains-new-fastest-supercomputer-makes-it-ominous-debut/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/14/britains-new-fastest-supercomputer-makes-it-ominous-debut/"(calculation speed) the same as 12,000 standard desktop computers"

£113m / 12,000 = £9420 per "standard desktop computer"

While I understand that contructing a supercomputer is rather different to linking up 12,000 machines, you could buy at least 10x the power of this by buying standard desktops? Someone sold this project well!

Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/jan/02/computing.climatechange]]>Jan 15th 2008 6:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/14/britains-new-fastest-supercomputer-makes-it-ominous-debut/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/14/britains-new-fastest-supercomputer-makes-it-ominous-debut/
From top500's november list #17: http://www.top500.org/list/2007/11/100
while at that point it could only perform 54 tflops of the theoretical max of 64 tflops.

Either they recently rectified that or this is old news.]]>Jan 17th 2008 5:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/14/britains-new-fastest-supercomputer-makes-it-ominous-debut/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/14/britains-new-fastest-supercomputer-makes-it-ominous-debut/Jan 17th 2008 5:44PM