http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/worlds-fastest-ibms-roadrunner-supercomputer-breaks-petaflop/ Engadget Comments for World's fastest: IBM's Roadrunner supercomputer breaks petaflop barrier using Cell and Opteron processors 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/2008/06/09/worlds-fastest-ibms-roadrunner-supercomputer-breaks-petaflop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/worlds-fastest-ibms-roadrunner-supercomputer-breaks-petaflop/Jun 9th 2008 4:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/worlds-fastest-ibms-roadrunner-supercomputer-breaks-petaflop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/worlds-fastest-ibms-roadrunner-supercomputer-breaks-petaflop/Jun 9th 2008 6:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/worlds-fastest-ibms-roadrunner-supercomputer-breaks-petaflop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/worlds-fastest-ibms-roadrunner-supercomputer-breaks-petaflop/Jun 9th 2008 6:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/worlds-fastest-ibms-roadrunner-supercomputer-breaks-petaflop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/worlds-fastest-ibms-roadrunner-supercomputer-breaks-petaflop/
But seriously,this has got to be the beginning of Skynet.]]>Jun 9th 2008 11:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/worlds-fastest-ibms-roadrunner-supercomputer-breaks-petaflop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/worlds-fastest-ibms-roadrunner-supercomputer-breaks-petaflop/
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Sorry, that was low, your icon made me do it =[.]]>Jun 9th 2008 4:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/worlds-fastest-ibms-roadrunner-supercomputer-breaks-petaflop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/worlds-fastest-ibms-roadrunner-supercomputer-breaks-petaflop/Jun 9th 2008 5:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/worlds-fastest-ibms-roadrunner-supercomputer-breaks-petaflop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/worlds-fastest-ibms-roadrunner-supercomputer-breaks-petaflop/Jun 9th 2008 5:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/worlds-fastest-ibms-roadrunner-supercomputer-breaks-petaflop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/worlds-fastest-ibms-roadrunner-supercomputer-breaks-petaflop/
Why does everyone moan about Crysis so much?!? I not long ago got a new mig-high end rig that runs Crysis at max settings smoothly and with no problems at all. If you were to price it up now with post-Christmas prices it would be not much over £1,000 (inc. 22" monitor).]]>Jun 9th 2008 7:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/worlds-fastest-ibms-roadrunner-supercomputer-breaks-petaflop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/worlds-fastest-ibms-roadrunner-supercomputer-breaks-petaflop/Jun 9th 2008 9:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/worlds-fastest-ibms-roadrunner-supercomputer-breaks-petaflop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/worlds-fastest-ibms-roadrunner-supercomputer-breaks-petaflop/Jun 9th 2008 10:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/worlds-fastest-ibms-roadrunner-supercomputer-breaks-petaflop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/worlds-fastest-ibms-roadrunner-supercomputer-breaks-petaflop/Jun 9th 2008 4:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/worlds-fastest-ibms-roadrunner-supercomputer-breaks-petaflop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/worlds-fastest-ibms-roadrunner-supercomputer-breaks-petaflop/
"Meep meep!" - Pchow!]]>Jun 9th 2008 4:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/worlds-fastest-ibms-roadrunner-supercomputer-breaks-petaflop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/worlds-fastest-ibms-roadrunner-supercomputer-breaks-petaflop/Jun 9th 2008 4:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/worlds-fastest-ibms-roadrunner-supercomputer-breaks-petaflop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/worlds-fastest-ibms-roadrunner-supercomputer-breaks-petaflop/Jun 9th 2008 4:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/worlds-fastest-ibms-roadrunner-supercomputer-breaks-petaflop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/worlds-fastest-ibms-roadrunner-supercomputer-breaks-petaflop/Jun 9th 2008 4:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/worlds-fastest-ibms-roadrunner-supercomputer-breaks-petaflop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/worlds-fastest-ibms-roadrunner-supercomputer-breaks-petaflop/Jun 9th 2008 4:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/worlds-fastest-ibms-roadrunner-supercomputer-breaks-petaflop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/worlds-fastest-ibms-roadrunner-supercomputer-breaks-petaflop/Jun 9th 2008 4:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/worlds-fastest-ibms-roadrunner-supercomputer-breaks-petaflop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/worlds-fastest-ibms-roadrunner-supercomputer-breaks-petaflop/
o yea and i have a feeling its quite true but still mind-boggling that the same 2 GHz computer is much more powerful then the space shuttle. thats slightly depressing]]>Jun 10th 2008 2:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/worlds-fastest-ibms-roadrunner-supercomputer-breaks-petaflop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/worlds-fastest-ibms-roadrunner-supercomputer-breaks-petaflop/Jun 9th 2008 4:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/worlds-fastest-ibms-roadrunner-supercomputer-breaks-petaflop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/worlds-fastest-ibms-roadrunner-supercomputer-breaks-petaflop/Me = cantcount
You = cantread]]>Jun 9th 2008 4:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/worlds-fastest-ibms-roadrunner-supercomputer-breaks-petaflop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/worlds-fastest-ibms-roadrunner-supercomputer-breaks-petaflop/Jun 9th 2008 4:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/worlds-fastest-ibms-roadrunner-supercomputer-breaks-petaflop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/worlds-fastest-ibms-roadrunner-supercomputer-breaks-petaflop/Jun 9th 2008 4:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/worlds-fastest-ibms-roadrunner-supercomputer-breaks-petaflop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/worlds-fastest-ibms-roadrunner-supercomputer-breaks-petaflop/Jun 9th 2008 4:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/worlds-fastest-ibms-roadrunner-supercomputer-breaks-petaflop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/worlds-fastest-ibms-roadrunner-supercomputer-breaks-petaflop/Jun 9th 2008 4:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/worlds-fastest-ibms-roadrunner-supercomputer-breaks-petaflop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/worlds-fastest-ibms-roadrunner-supercomputer-breaks-petaflop/Jun 11th 2008 1:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/worlds-fastest-ibms-roadrunner-supercomputer-breaks-petaflop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/worlds-fastest-ibms-roadrunner-supercomputer-breaks-petaflop/
Yay for not reaching twenty yet!]]>Jun 9th 2008 4:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/worlds-fastest-ibms-roadrunner-supercomputer-breaks-petaflop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/worlds-fastest-ibms-roadrunner-supercomputer-breaks-petaflop/
cocaine is a helluva drug.]]>Jun 9th 2008 5:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/worlds-fastest-ibms-roadrunner-supercomputer-breaks-petaflop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/worlds-fastest-ibms-roadrunner-supercomputer-breaks-petaflop/ compare the worlds fastest computer from 1969 which ran @ 36 MFLOPS to even my cheap/old pentium e6300 which runs at around 2500 MFLOPS (not O/C, stock)...its hard to compare to cell phones which are never really tested with flops...but i can also guarantee you will find 1 ghz processors in phones by 2010, especially seeing some of the work that nvidia is working on.

So definitely within a few years you'll see a cell phone that was faster than the worlds fastest computer less than 50 years ago.

hopefully moore's law continues to hold up, in that case we'll see cell phones that are more powerful than my desktop less than 10 years from now. ]]>Jun 9th 2008 5:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/worlds-fastest-ibms-roadrunner-supercomputer-breaks-petaflop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/worlds-fastest-ibms-roadrunner-supercomputer-breaks-petaflop/
* 1961: about US$1,100,000,000,000 ($1.1 trillion) per GFLOPS (=US$1,100 per FLOPS); with 1 billion IBM 1620 units @ $64,000 each and a multiplication operation taking 17.7ms [11]
* 1997: about US$30,000 per GFLOPS; with two 16-Pentium-Pro–processor Beowulf cluster computers[12]
* 2000, April: $1,000 per GFLOPS, Bunyip, Australian National University. First sub-US$1/MFlop. Gordon Bell Prize 2000.
* 2000, May: $640 per GFLOPS, KLAT2, University of Kentucky
* 2003, August: $82 per GFLOPS, KASY0, University of Kentucky
* 2006, February: about $1 per GFLOPS in ATI PC add-in graphics card (X1900 architecture) — these figures are disputed as they refer to highly parallelized GPU power.
* 2007, March: about $0.42 per GFLOPS in Ambric AM2045[13].
* 2007, October: about $0.20 per GFLOPS with the cheapest retail Sony PS3 console, at US$400, that runs at a claimed 2 teraFLOPS; these figures represent the processing power of the GPU. The seven CPUs run collectively at a lower 218 GFLO

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLOPS
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More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore's_law]]>Jun 9th 2008 7:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/worlds-fastest-ibms-roadrunner-supercomputer-breaks-petaflop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/worlds-fastest-ibms-roadrunner-supercomputer-breaks-petaflop/
In fact, you'd have an argument for the opposite being true. The less transistors a signal has to go through, the fewer switching delays it is delayed by, hence the faster it emerges.]]>Jun 9th 2008 7:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/worlds-fastest-ibms-roadrunner-supercomputer-breaks-petaflop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/worlds-fastest-ibms-roadrunner-supercomputer-breaks-petaflop/i'd love to take up that argument with anyone...]]>Jun 9th 2008 2:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/worlds-fastest-ibms-roadrunner-supercomputer-breaks-petaflop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/worlds-fastest-ibms-roadrunner-supercomputer-breaks-petaflop/Jun 9th 2008 5:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/worlds-fastest-ibms-roadrunner-supercomputer-breaks-petaflop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/worlds-fastest-ibms-roadrunner-supercomputer-breaks-petaflop/Jun 9th 2008 5:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/worlds-fastest-ibms-roadrunner-supercomputer-breaks-petaflop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/worlds-fastest-ibms-roadrunner-supercomputer-breaks-petaflop/
Meep Meep! *fwoosh*

It would be great if it made those sounds...

*wanders off day-dreaming*]]>Jun 11th 2008 5:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/worlds-fastest-ibms-roadrunner-supercomputer-breaks-petaflop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/worlds-fastest-ibms-roadrunner-supercomputer-breaks-petaflop/Jun 9th 2008 10:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/worlds-fastest-ibms-roadrunner-supercomputer-breaks-petaflop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/worlds-fastest-ibms-roadrunner-supercomputer-breaks-petaflop/Jun 9th 2008 5:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/worlds-fastest-ibms-roadrunner-supercomputer-breaks-petaflop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/worlds-fastest-ibms-roadrunner-supercomputer-breaks-petaflop/
That some hardcore pleasuring right there.]]>Jun 9th 2008 5:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/worlds-fastest-ibms-roadrunner-supercomputer-breaks-petaflop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/worlds-fastest-ibms-roadrunner-supercomputer-breaks-petaflop/
so really it will Hopefully be able to play 4 hardcore porn vids in high definition while playing crysis and doom at the same time while in a bath ( or shower whatever floats you're boat).

That some hardcore pleasuring right there.]]>Jun 9th 2008 5:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/worlds-fastest-ibms-roadrunner-supercomputer-breaks-petaflop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/worlds-fastest-ibms-roadrunner-supercomputer-breaks-petaflop/Jun 9th 2008 6:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/worlds-fastest-ibms-roadrunner-supercomputer-breaks-petaflop/http://www.engadget.com/2008/06/09/worlds-fastest-ibms-roadrunner-supercomputer-breaks-petaflop/The power bill must be crazy huge.
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