Cray supercomputer is world's fastest (that we're allowed to know about)
By Tim Stevens 
posted November 12th 2008 8:50AM
posted November 12th 2008 8:50AM
Seattle-based Cray has been wowing us with massive, ridiculously fast supercomputers since the '70s, establishing a position for its machines high on every geek's most wanted list -- despite never publishing a Doom benchmark. In recent years the title of "world's fastest" supercomputer had been lost by the company, ping-ponging from Wako, Japan to Armonk, NY, but is now back in Cray's hands with the implementation of the XT Jaguar. It's comprised of over 45,000 quad-core Opteron processors, 362GBTB of memory, and has a 10PB (petabyte) storage array, able to perform calculations at a massive 1.64 petaflops. That's over one and a half quadrillion operations per second and more than 50 percent faster than IBM's previous heavyweight. Mind you, Cray is quick to point out that this is the fastest machine being used for non-classified research, a caveat that just makes us even more curious about what's keeping the Pentagon's server rooms warm and loud... and apparently orange.
Update: That should be 362 terabytes of memory, not mere gigabytes.
[Via UPI.com]
Update: That should be 362 terabytes of memory, not mere gigabytes.
[Via UPI.com]
Forgive my unimaginative mind, but what sort of classified research would require something more powerful then this beast? Is the government plotting wormholes into zombie infested alternate realities or spooling up FTL drives? This isn't meant as a joke.
The government tends to use these type of systems to monitor disease spreading, accurate modeling of nuclear bomb explosions, etc...
I can just see a bunch of government guys getting bored after simulating all the "real" threatening atomic bomb drops and just going "Ooh, ooh! What if we dropped one here! PSSSSSSSHHEEEWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!" for like a week...
One more supercomputer... wow! *YAWNS* It can not do what my laptop can do.....
So, is it safe to say that this will play doom?
Doom was released over four years ago, can it even be used as a bench-mark anymore?
I really hope you're kidding... if you honestly think the doom released 4 years ago is the doom everyone talks about with that joke, you need to stop being 14 years old and get out of my internet.
bah. i had a jaguar back in the 90s. there were no good games. wait till they follow it up with the dreamcast
BUT can it run crysis??? becuase i know a bunch of mac's that cant
So is this the new minimum specs for Windows 7?
I thought Cray was history. I saw this as tagged desktop computer. How big a desk would I need?
Yeah but do they have free shipping and coupon deals like Dell?
Sorry but Roadrunner from IBM is faster and as a theorical peak of 1.7PetaFLOPS so it is faster by 0.06PetaFLOPS: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Roadrunner
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Roadrunner is faster at 1.7PetaFLOPS
But can it play crysis?
Yea, you can get a case of em at Costco.
Vzyal sebe takoj na dnyah. Podskajite, kollegi, a kak na nem mojno propatchit' KDE pod FreeBSD??