http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/15/fujitsus-supercomputer-ready-venus-cpu-said-to-be-worlds-fast/ Engadget Comments for Fujitsu's supercomputer-ready Venus CPU said to be "world's fastest" http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/15/fujitsus-supercomputer-ready-venus-cpu-said-to-be-worlds-fast/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/15/fujitsus-supercomputer-ready-venus-cpu-said-to-be-worlds-fast/May 15th 2009 4:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/15/fujitsus-supercomputer-ready-venus-cpu-said-to-be-worlds-fast/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/15/fujitsus-supercomputer-ready-venus-cpu-said-to-be-worlds-fast/May 15th 2009 4:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/15/fujitsus-supercomputer-ready-venus-cpu-said-to-be-worlds-fast/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/15/fujitsus-supercomputer-ready-venus-cpu-said-to-be-worlds-fast/May 15th 2009 4:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/15/fujitsus-supercomputer-ready-venus-cpu-said-to-be-worlds-fast/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/15/fujitsus-supercomputer-ready-venus-cpu-said-to-be-worlds-fast/May 15th 2009 4:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/15/fujitsus-supercomputer-ready-venus-cpu-said-to-be-worlds-fast/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/15/fujitsus-supercomputer-ready-venus-cpu-said-to-be-worlds-fast/
I can't wait till they release the first home quantum computer in about 20 years so someone can ask that and I can reply...

...it can play all of the Dooms, Crysises and Quakes simultaneously ]]>May 15th 2009 5:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/15/fujitsus-supercomputer-ready-venus-cpu-said-to-be-worlds-fast/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/15/fujitsus-supercomputer-ready-venus-cpu-said-to-be-worlds-fast/
So yes, it could very well be Doom!]]>May 15th 2009 5:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/15/fujitsus-supercomputer-ready-venus-cpu-said-to-be-worlds-fast/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/15/fujitsus-supercomputer-ready-venus-cpu-said-to-be-worlds-fast/May 15th 2009 5:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/15/fujitsus-supercomputer-ready-venus-cpu-said-to-be-worlds-fast/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/15/fujitsus-supercomputer-ready-venus-cpu-said-to-be-worlds-fast/
The only functional QCs have the power of a calculator and need to be kept at 12 kelvin...]]>May 15th 2009 6:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/15/fujitsus-supercomputer-ready-venus-cpu-said-to-be-worlds-fast/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/15/fujitsus-supercomputer-ready-venus-cpu-said-to-be-worlds-fast/
Actually man, and its not usually my thing to split hairs, but since you are...

The doom source was released in... what was it... 97? And has been mad pretty portable over the years, so yes it does run on sparc. But more importantly, if that chip is as fast as they say it is, it can do better then just run the x86 version of Doom (via an x86 emulator) it could probably do some very nice after effects and upscale it.

... sorry to do that.]]>May 15th 2009 10:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/15/fujitsus-supercomputer-ready-venus-cpu-said-to-be-worlds-fast/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/15/fujitsus-supercomputer-ready-venus-cpu-said-to-be-worlds-fast/May 15th 2009 4:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/15/fujitsus-supercomputer-ready-venus-cpu-said-to-be-worlds-fast/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/15/fujitsus-supercomputer-ready-venus-cpu-said-to-be-worlds-fast/
Cheers!]]>May 15th 2009 4:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/15/fujitsus-supercomputer-ready-venus-cpu-said-to-be-worlds-fast/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/15/fujitsus-supercomputer-ready-venus-cpu-said-to-be-worlds-fast/May 15th 2009 10:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/15/fujitsus-supercomputer-ready-venus-cpu-said-to-be-worlds-fast/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/15/fujitsus-supercomputer-ready-venus-cpu-said-to-be-worlds-fast/
I was providing levity while preempting the inevitable comments "can it run XYZ?" :) I would think most people with a remote interest in processor architectures know Crysis won't run on this unless Crytek recompiles it (yes, I'm vastly understating the matter, while I'm sure they aren't using any x86/x64 asm (lending hope to portability), Crysis is inextricably tied to the systemic cancer we call DirectX)
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Too bad OpenGL doesn't do more to compete with DirectX. Stupid proprietary Microsoft APIs. If it weren't for DirectX, we'd be seeing a lot more games for Mac and Linux.]]>May 16th 2009 7:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/15/fujitsus-supercomputer-ready-venus-cpu-said-to-be-worlds-fast/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/15/fujitsus-supercomputer-ready-venus-cpu-said-to-be-worlds-fast/May 27th 2009 9:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/15/fujitsus-supercomputer-ready-venus-cpu-said-to-be-worlds-fast/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/15/fujitsus-supercomputer-ready-venus-cpu-said-to-be-worlds-fast/May 15th 2009 4:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/15/fujitsus-supercomputer-ready-venus-cpu-said-to-be-worlds-fast/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/15/fujitsus-supercomputer-ready-venus-cpu-said-to-be-worlds-fast/May 15th 2009 5:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/15/fujitsus-supercomputer-ready-venus-cpu-said-to-be-worlds-fast/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/15/fujitsus-supercomputer-ready-venus-cpu-said-to-be-worlds-fast/May 15th 2009 5:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/15/fujitsus-supercomputer-ready-venus-cpu-said-to-be-worlds-fast/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/15/fujitsus-supercomputer-ready-venus-cpu-said-to-be-worlds-fast/May 15th 2009 5:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/15/fujitsus-supercomputer-ready-venus-cpu-said-to-be-worlds-fast/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/15/fujitsus-supercomputer-ready-venus-cpu-said-to-be-worlds-fast/May 15th 2009 6:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/15/fujitsus-supercomputer-ready-venus-cpu-said-to-be-worlds-fast/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/15/fujitsus-supercomputer-ready-venus-cpu-said-to-be-worlds-fast/May 15th 2009 4:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/15/fujitsus-supercomputer-ready-venus-cpu-said-to-be-worlds-fast/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/15/fujitsus-supercomputer-ready-venus-cpu-said-to-be-worlds-fast/May 15th 2009 4:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/15/fujitsus-supercomputer-ready-venus-cpu-said-to-be-worlds-fast/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/15/fujitsus-supercomputer-ready-venus-cpu-said-to-be-worlds-fast/Go AMD!]]>May 15th 2009 5:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/15/fujitsus-supercomputer-ready-venus-cpu-said-to-be-worlds-fast/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/15/fujitsus-supercomputer-ready-venus-cpu-said-to-be-worlds-fast/May 15th 2009 5:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/15/fujitsus-supercomputer-ready-venus-cpu-said-to-be-worlds-fast/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/15/fujitsus-supercomputer-ready-venus-cpu-said-to-be-worlds-fast/
I wouldn't run around saying they have the world's fastest CPU yet without benchmarks etc.

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http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/15/huge-new-intel-processor-revealed/]]>May 15th 2009 8:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/15/fujitsus-supercomputer-ready-venus-cpu-said-to-be-worlds-fast/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/15/fujitsus-supercomputer-ready-venus-cpu-said-to-be-worlds-fast/May 15th 2009 10:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/15/fujitsus-supercomputer-ready-venus-cpu-said-to-be-worlds-fast/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/15/fujitsus-supercomputer-ready-venus-cpu-said-to-be-worlds-fast/
As for desktops/workstations, AMD already took care of SPARC in that market - note that Sun rather quickly ditched SPARC workstations once the Opteron came out.]]>May 18th 2009 8:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/15/fujitsus-supercomputer-ready-venus-cpu-said-to-be-worlds-fast/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/15/fujitsus-supercomputer-ready-venus-cpu-said-to-be-worlds-fast/
I'll be the new Chuck Norris with this baby!]]>May 16th 2009 1:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/15/fujitsus-supercomputer-ready-venus-cpu-said-to-be-worlds-fast/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/15/fujitsus-supercomputer-ready-venus-cpu-said-to-be-worlds-fast/May 16th 2009 4:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/15/fujitsus-supercomputer-ready-venus-cpu-said-to-be-worlds-fast/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/15/fujitsus-supercomputer-ready-venus-cpu-said-to-be-worlds-fast/
I mean it's amazing what they have been able to do, but that is one huge chip, which means yield per wafer is not gonna be all that high, which means it is going to be an extremely expensive chip.

But that's not even the problem that I see... Super computers aren't a ONE CPU system - I would think that it is still better to gang a bunch of cheaper chips together (even if individually they are slower), than having less (but more powerful) chips.

This is 2.5x the speed of the fastest comparable Intel chip, but if the Intel chip is 1/3 the price and just as scalable, then Intel would still make the better chip to use.]]>May 16th 2009 9:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/15/fujitsus-supercomputer-ready-venus-cpu-said-to-be-worlds-fast/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/15/fujitsus-supercomputer-ready-venus-cpu-said-to-be-worlds-fast/May 18th 2009 8:55AM