Cray Jaguar leaps past IBM Roadrunner as world's fastest supercomputer and pun generator (video)
By Thomas Ricker 
posted November 16th 2009 3:19AM
posted November 16th 2009 3:19AM
posted November 16th 2009 3:19AM
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So two years ago, and yet still so much more demanding than MW2 :(
That's because MW2 for the PC is a port of a game built for 5 year old technology
Congratulations to Cray Jaguar...
test..
so...what does it actually do?
Supercomputers are used to run simulations - Nuclear explosions, weather etc.
Hello world... but really quick and many times simultaneously.
of course this would be a speech synthesized hello world... and all the voices would be slightly out of sync giving it a creepy sinister sound
I wonder what happens to the tens of thousands of old processors.
Holy crap, where do I get in line?
I just thought the same thing... that's a lot of processors that could still be put to use.
ebay.
Suck on that Nehalem! Ha ha ha!
Can it run Windows ME without crashing?
Why would you even suggest that? No computer should be subject to that kind of torture.
Swapping thousands upon thousands of chips.....
That must be fulfilling.
It's probably the same as the original old vacuum tube computers that had SO many tubes the expected "power on before tube failure life" went to zero...at least in theory.
can i have the left over processors?
that was pretty interesting actually
NOT UNTIL YOU RUN BACK HOME AND TELL THE WIFE THAT YOU BUILT THE WORLD'S FASTEST... Oh wait, she doesn't care. :/
replying to Dante of the inferno
Does it still come with one controller and Cybermorph packed in?
i remember my first encounter with Mac OS X was Jaguar..... on a 350MHz PowerMac G4....
Is this the new OnLive facility?
So, a bit like lego then?
ok, no grouding required during the assembly... i thought ESD is a precautionary measure for all electronics assemblers... now i learnt.
If the table is grounded/conductive and the person touched it to equalize his charge then there's no need until the person is in a situation where he builds up charge again, but of course he's constantly touching the case on the table equalizing himself again.
Oh and there's are also antistatic ankle strap versions, but I don't think that's used here.
Can anyone say "anti static wrist strap"? :)
I wondered the exact same thing.... it's probably the most expensive piece of hardware the guy has ever handled... and he's not even taking standard precautions I'd use on my gaming rig...
Dude....where's your static strap?
The University of Tennessee's Kraken supercomputer, another Cray XT5 system that's housed at ORNL and was upgraded at the same time as Jaguar, rose to third on the worldwide list with a benchmark rating of 832 teraflops - or 832 trillion calculations per second. - Knoxville News Sentinel
The University of Tennessee's Kraken supercomputer, another Cray XT5 system that's housed at ORNL and was upgraded at the same time as Jaguar, rose to third on the worldwide list with a benchmark rating of 832 teraflops - or 832 trillion calculations per second. - Knoxville News Sentinel
Seems clear that these setups are a bit ill thought out, I can see parallel CPU's being a good thing but when you go beyond a certain amount you should start to rethink the technology and find a way to be better with less parts again.
Safe to assume it is running linux?
http://www.top500.org/system/10184
Yes.
If it doesn't have a Jeff Minter Virtual Light Machine like the Atari Jaguar, then I'm not interested!
Since when did Wallace Shawn work for cray?
But will it blend?
But will it play Bonk's Adventure?
I want the job of swapping the cpu's!
I'd like to see how well it would do running a weather prediction program. Tired of getting inaccurate weather predictions.
Those people would be what we call idiots. The Bobcat company and Intel have no overlapping product lines whatsoever and never will...so there is little basis for them to sue. Now if intel were selling construction related equipment under the name Bobcat they might have a leg to stand on.
Remember when supercomputer companies designed their own processors (not necessarily CPUs)? This contest of seeing who can put more off-the-shelf CPUs in a box just isn't anywhere near as interesting.
I'm pretty sure this jaguar is more powerful:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_Jaguar
Where can I get one of those 8 socket motherboards. Cause that would = nergasm.
yea, i would also like one of those 8 socket mother boards....
one problem though, they don't have a ram, gpu, or hard drive slot... and i kinda need those for my computer...
how bout 8 gpu slots? and like 64 ram slots...
no idea what i would use that for though, my q6600 has more than enough horse power....
I'll get a new gpu in like 2 years, then 8800gt is fine for now, but in 2 years, i want a dx11 card....
I'm fine with ddr2 ram, i might just get some 1333mhz ddr2 ram, but i doubt it, 800mhz seems to run fine...
its kind of funny how in like 25 years ill probably have a pc that is just as powerful or close to it and all i will use it for is checking email reading engadget (if its still around) and watching chocolate rain for the 300th time
It's hard for me to get very excited about this. Yes it's cool, and it's pretty useful to scientists, but it's really just many smaller computers networked together. It's more like a super room full of computers. I think anything you can fit in a standard 8 foot rack is the maximum you should be able to refer to as 1 computer. With this setup it really isn't much of a competition either. If they compared the top computer that fit in one rack, that would be interesting. With this, someone can make the same setup and just add one more rack and then they are the most awesome nerds of all time! Until someone else can afford one more rack.
"Wow, the government spent $19,900,000 to upgrade the 4 core cpus to 6 core cpus! What an accomplishment!" -Me