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"But willl it run Crysis?"]]>Nov 16th 2009 3:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/16/cray-jaguar-leaps-past-ibm-roadrunner-as-worlds-faster-supercom/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/16/cray-jaguar-leaps-past-ibm-roadrunner-as-worlds-faster-supercom/Nov 16th 2009 4:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/16/cray-jaguar-leaps-past-ibm-roadrunner-as-worlds-faster-supercom/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/16/cray-jaguar-leaps-past-ibm-roadrunner-as-worlds-faster-supercom/Nov 16th 2009 4:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/16/cray-jaguar-leaps-past-ibm-roadrunner-as-worlds-faster-supercom/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/16/cray-jaguar-leaps-past-ibm-roadrunner-as-worlds-faster-supercom/Nov 16th 2009 4:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/16/cray-jaguar-leaps-past-ibm-roadrunner-as-worlds-faster-supercom/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/16/cray-jaguar-leaps-past-ibm-roadrunner-as-worlds-faster-supercom/
It's as if whoever has the most money can buy the most number of CPUs and thus has the fastest pseudocomputer.

And it won't even run Crysis (literally).]]>Nov 16th 2009 5:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/16/cray-jaguar-leaps-past-ibm-roadrunner-as-worlds-faster-supercom/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/16/cray-jaguar-leaps-past-ibm-roadrunner-as-worlds-faster-supercom/Nov 16th 2009 6:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/16/cray-jaguar-leaps-past-ibm-roadrunner-as-worlds-faster-supercom/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/16/cray-jaguar-leaps-past-ibm-roadrunner-as-worlds-faster-supercom/

AAHHhhh dear god!]]>Nov 16th 2009 8:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/16/cray-jaguar-leaps-past-ibm-roadrunner-as-worlds-faster-supercom/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/16/cray-jaguar-leaps-past-ibm-roadrunner-as-worlds-faster-supercom/Nov 16th 2009 8:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/16/cray-jaguar-leaps-past-ibm-roadrunner-as-worlds-faster-supercom/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/16/cray-jaguar-leaps-past-ibm-roadrunner-as-worlds-faster-supercom/Nov 16th 2009 12:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/16/cray-jaguar-leaps-past-ibm-roadrunner-as-worlds-faster-supercom/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/16/cray-jaguar-leaps-past-ibm-roadrunner-as-worlds-faster-supercom/Nov 16th 2009 3:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/16/cray-jaguar-leaps-past-ibm-roadrunner-as-worlds-faster-supercom/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/16/cray-jaguar-leaps-past-ibm-roadrunner-as-worlds-faster-supercom/Nov 16th 2009 3:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/16/cray-jaguar-leaps-past-ibm-roadrunner-as-worlds-faster-supercom/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/16/cray-jaguar-leaps-past-ibm-roadrunner-as-worlds-faster-supercom/Nov 16th 2009 10:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/16/cray-jaguar-leaps-past-ibm-roadrunner-as-worlds-faster-supercom/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/16/cray-jaguar-leaps-past-ibm-roadrunner-as-worlds-faster-supercom/Nov 16th 2009 2:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/16/cray-jaguar-leaps-past-ibm-roadrunner-as-worlds-faster-supercom/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/16/cray-jaguar-leaps-past-ibm-roadrunner-as-worlds-faster-supercom/Nov 16th 2009 3:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/16/cray-jaguar-leaps-past-ibm-roadrunner-as-worlds-faster-supercom/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/16/cray-jaguar-leaps-past-ibm-roadrunner-as-worlds-faster-supercom/Nov 16th 2009 3:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/16/cray-jaguar-leaps-past-ibm-roadrunner-as-worlds-faster-supercom/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/16/cray-jaguar-leaps-past-ibm-roadrunner-as-worlds-faster-supercom/4 of the top 5 are AMD

HOWEVER

402 of top 500 are intel


Thats 80.4% of the larger sampling having intel. Just an oddity that the very top super computers use AMD, must be a cost issue.]]>Nov 16th 2009 3:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/16/cray-jaguar-leaps-past-ibm-roadrunner-as-worlds-faster-supercom/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/16/cray-jaguar-leaps-past-ibm-roadrunner-as-worlds-faster-supercom/Nov 16th 2009 3:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/16/cray-jaguar-leaps-past-ibm-roadrunner-as-worlds-faster-supercom/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/16/cray-jaguar-leaps-past-ibm-roadrunner-as-worlds-faster-supercom/Nov 16th 2009 4:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/16/cray-jaguar-leaps-past-ibm-roadrunner-as-worlds-faster-supercom/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/16/cray-jaguar-leaps-past-ibm-roadrunner-as-worlds-faster-supercom/
in the world of engineering, you design the best computer you can. thus, AMD wins the top supercomputer spots.]]>Nov 16th 2009 4:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/16/cray-jaguar-leaps-past-ibm-roadrunner-as-worlds-faster-supercom/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/16/cray-jaguar-leaps-past-ibm-roadrunner-as-worlds-faster-supercom/Nov 16th 2009 8:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/16/cray-jaguar-leaps-past-ibm-roadrunner-as-worlds-faster-supercom/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/16/cray-jaguar-leaps-past-ibm-roadrunner-as-worlds-faster-supercom/
One major drawback for Intel is how they keep changing CPU sockets all the time. AMD stays with the same socket for much longer making it easier to upgrade existing hardware with new CPU's.]]>Nov 16th 2009 4:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/16/cray-jaguar-leaps-past-ibm-roadrunner-as-worlds-faster-supercom/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/16/cray-jaguar-leaps-past-ibm-roadrunner-as-worlds-faster-supercom/
Hopefully AMD will catch a break with this anti-trust suite they just won, and Intel will be have to stop bribing manufacturers with discounts and AMD chips will appear in more mainstream systems.]]>Nov 16th 2009 6:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/16/cray-jaguar-leaps-past-ibm-roadrunner-as-worlds-faster-supercom/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/16/cray-jaguar-leaps-past-ibm-roadrunner-as-worlds-faster-supercom/Nov 16th 2009 6:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/16/cray-jaguar-leaps-past-ibm-roadrunner-as-worlds-faster-supercom/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/16/cray-jaguar-leaps-past-ibm-roadrunner-as-worlds-faster-supercom/Nov 16th 2009 3:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/16/cray-jaguar-leaps-past-ibm-roadrunner-as-worlds-faster-supercom/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/16/cray-jaguar-leaps-past-ibm-roadrunner-as-worlds-faster-supercom/Then again cost might also be part of the reason since 250,000 intel chips would likely cost a bit more money.]]>Nov 16th 2009 6:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/16/cray-jaguar-leaps-past-ibm-roadrunner-as-worlds-faster-supercom/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/16/cray-jaguar-leaps-past-ibm-roadrunner-as-worlds-faster-supercom/Nov 18th 2009 4:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/16/cray-jaguar-leaps-past-ibm-roadrunner-as-worlds-faster-supercom/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/16/cray-jaguar-leaps-past-ibm-roadrunner-as-worlds-faster-supercom/

and yes, that is what she said!]]>Nov 16th 2009 3:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/16/cray-jaguar-leaps-past-ibm-roadrunner-as-worlds-faster-supercom/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/16/cray-jaguar-leaps-past-ibm-roadrunner-as-worlds-faster-supercom/Nov 16th 2009 3:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/16/cray-jaguar-leaps-past-ibm-roadrunner-as-worlds-faster-supercom/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/16/cray-jaguar-leaps-past-ibm-roadrunner-as-worlds-faster-supercom/Nov 16th 2009 3:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/16/cray-jaguar-leaps-past-ibm-roadrunner-as-worlds-faster-supercom/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/16/cray-jaguar-leaps-past-ibm-roadrunner-as-worlds-faster-supercom/Nov 19th 2009 2:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/16/cray-jaguar-leaps-past-ibm-roadrunner-as-worlds-faster-supercom/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/16/cray-jaguar-leaps-past-ibm-roadrunner-as-worlds-faster-supercom/Nov 16th 2009 5:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/16/cray-jaguar-leaps-past-ibm-roadrunner-as-worlds-faster-supercom/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/16/cray-jaguar-leaps-past-ibm-roadrunner-as-worlds-faster-supercom/
No.]]>Nov 16th 2009 8:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/16/cray-jaguar-leaps-past-ibm-roadrunner-as-worlds-faster-supercom/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/16/cray-jaguar-leaps-past-ibm-roadrunner-as-worlds-faster-supercom/Nov 16th 2009 9:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/16/cray-jaguar-leaps-past-ibm-roadrunner-as-worlds-faster-supercom/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/16/cray-jaguar-leaps-past-ibm-roadrunner-as-worlds-faster-supercom/Nov 17th 2009 1:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/16/cray-jaguar-leaps-past-ibm-roadrunner-as-worlds-faster-supercom/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/16/cray-jaguar-leaps-past-ibm-roadrunner-as-worlds-faster-supercom/Even if you could, it would actually be around 580Thz.
Same reason they don't advertise a quad core Xeon as running at 12Ghz, because you know they would if they could.]]>Nov 18th 2009 5:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/16/cray-jaguar-leaps-past-ibm-roadrunner-as-worlds-faster-supercom/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/16/cray-jaguar-leaps-past-ibm-roadrunner-as-worlds-faster-supercom/
'cept, it still doesn't have many great games for the platform. ;'(

Still want to see how it fairs against the Playstation or Dreamcast, though.]]>Nov 16th 2009 3:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/16/cray-jaguar-leaps-past-ibm-roadrunner-as-worlds-faster-supercom/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/16/cray-jaguar-leaps-past-ibm-roadrunner-as-worlds-faster-supercom/Nov 16th 2009 3:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/16/cray-jaguar-leaps-past-ibm-roadrunner-as-worlds-faster-supercom/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/16/cray-jaguar-leaps-past-ibm-roadrunner-as-worlds-faster-supercom/Nov 16th 2009 3:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/16/cray-jaguar-leaps-past-ibm-roadrunner-as-worlds-faster-supercom/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/16/cray-jaguar-leaps-past-ibm-roadrunner-as-worlds-faster-supercom/Nov 16th 2009 4:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/16/cray-jaguar-leaps-past-ibm-roadrunner-as-worlds-faster-supercom/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/16/cray-jaguar-leaps-past-ibm-roadrunner-as-worlds-faster-supercom/Nov 16th 2009 3:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/16/cray-jaguar-leaps-past-ibm-roadrunner-as-worlds-faster-supercom/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/16/cray-jaguar-leaps-past-ibm-roadrunner-as-worlds-faster-supercom/Nov 16th 2009 9:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/16/cray-jaguar-leaps-past-ibm-roadrunner-as-worlds-faster-supercom/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/16/cray-jaguar-leaps-past-ibm-roadrunner-as-worlds-faster-supercom/Nov 16th 2009 5:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/16/cray-jaguar-leaps-past-ibm-roadrunner-as-worlds-faster-supercom/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/16/cray-jaguar-leaps-past-ibm-roadrunner-as-worlds-faster-supercom/Nov 20th 2009 12:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/16/cray-jaguar-leaps-past-ibm-roadrunner-as-worlds-faster-supercom/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/16/cray-jaguar-leaps-past-ibm-roadrunner-as-worlds-faster-supercom/Nov 16th 2009 3:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/16/cray-jaguar-leaps-past-ibm-roadrunner-as-worlds-faster-supercom/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/16/cray-jaguar-leaps-past-ibm-roadrunner-as-worlds-faster-supercom/Nov 16th 2009 3:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/16/cray-jaguar-leaps-past-ibm-roadrunner-as-worlds-faster-supercom/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/16/cray-jaguar-leaps-past-ibm-roadrunner-as-worlds-faster-supercom/Nov 16th 2009 5:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/16/cray-jaguar-leaps-past-ibm-roadrunner-as-worlds-faster-supercom/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/16/cray-jaguar-leaps-past-ibm-roadrunner-as-worlds-faster-supercom/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLOPS]]>Nov 16th 2009 4:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/16/cray-jaguar-leaps-past-ibm-roadrunner-as-worlds-faster-supercom/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/16/cray-jaguar-leaps-past-ibm-roadrunner-as-worlds-faster-supercom/Nov 16th 2009 4:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/16/cray-jaguar-leaps-past-ibm-roadrunner-as-worlds-faster-supercom/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/16/cray-jaguar-leaps-past-ibm-roadrunner-as-worlds-faster-supercom/
FLOPS: FLoating point Operations Per Second
petaFLOPS: 2^50 FLoating point Operations Per Second

.. flop: To fail completely.

Sorry for being a stickler but this ain't the times, this is engadget, where tech details matter.]]>Nov 16th 2009 4:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/11/16/cray-jaguar-leaps-past-ibm-roadrunner-as-worlds-faster-supercom/http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/16/cray-jaguar-leaps-past-ibm-roadrunner-as-worlds-faster-supercom/Nov 16th 2009 4:05AM