http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/ibm-developing-10-petaflop-supercomputer-power7-to-ship-next-ye/ Engadget Comments for IBM developing 10 petaflop supercomputer, Power7 to ship next year 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/2009/12/07/ibm-developing-10-petaflop-supercomputer-power7-to-ship-next-ye/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/ibm-developing-10-petaflop-supercomputer-power7-to-ship-next-ye/Dec 7th 2009 5:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/ibm-developing-10-petaflop-supercomputer-power7-to-ship-next-ye/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/ibm-developing-10-petaflop-supercomputer-power7-to-ship-next-ye/Dec 7th 2009 5:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/ibm-developing-10-petaflop-supercomputer-power7-to-ship-next-ye/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/ibm-developing-10-petaflop-supercomputer-power7-to-ship-next-ye/
This is Cool Stuff. Should square up rather well against Nehalem, just like when POWER6 blew everything in existence at that time out of the water.]]>Dec 7th 2009 5:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/ibm-developing-10-petaflop-supercomputer-power7-to-ship-next-ye/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/ibm-developing-10-petaflop-supercomputer-power7-to-ship-next-ye/
Would certainly explain the Blue Waters part.]]>Dec 7th 2009 5:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/ibm-developing-10-petaflop-supercomputer-power7-to-ship-next-ye/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/ibm-developing-10-petaflop-supercomputer-power7-to-ship-next-ye/
GPU's have specialized FPU that are pre-optimized for equations that commonly appear in games and 3d rendering. If they are preforming equations that they are good at and optimized for, YES they will be faster (if compared head to head number of cores).

If they are testing a theoretical equation that no one has ever construed before (you know, things that people who actually use super computers do) hands down the super computer will be better at it.

you are comparing apples to oranges, don't try and start a flame war.]]>Dec 7th 2009 5:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/ibm-developing-10-petaflop-supercomputer-power7-to-ship-next-ye/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/ibm-developing-10-petaflop-supercomputer-power7-to-ship-next-ye/
Not trying to start a flamewar. Merely remembering many Engadget discussions about how amazingly awesome GPUs' floating-point numbers are when, as you correctly point out, they're very limited-use devices and will never totally replace general-purpose supercomputers.]]>Dec 7th 2009 5:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/ibm-developing-10-petaflop-supercomputer-power7-to-ship-next-ye/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/ibm-developing-10-petaflop-supercomputer-power7-to-ship-next-ye/"it comes down to what kind of math you want to do. Super Computers are made for one thing, full spectrum integer and float NUMBER CRUNCHING."

Actually, gpus are better at number crunching(floating point and integer). They even do double precision math on newer ones. By full spectrum number crunching, do you mean addition, subtraction, multiplication and division? GPUs handle all these operations fine. What they aren't good at is complex logic. since GPUs do say 1000 operations at the same time, you can't halt the number crunching at calculation #500 and start a different routine based on a computer programmed decision.

"If they are testing a theoretical equation that no one has ever construed before (you know, things that people who actually use super computers do) hands down the super computer will be better at it."

Umm, GPUs can calculate the result of pretty much any equation and faster than cpus (when that equation is calculated multiple times). CPUs would be better at doing it a few times and then moving on to some other required task.]]>Dec 7th 2009 7:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/ibm-developing-10-petaflop-supercomputer-power7-to-ship-next-ye/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/ibm-developing-10-petaflop-supercomputer-power7-to-ship-next-ye/Dec 7th 2009 5:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/ibm-developing-10-petaflop-supercomputer-power7-to-ship-next-ye/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/ibm-developing-10-petaflop-supercomputer-power7-to-ship-next-ye/Dec 7th 2009 5:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/ibm-developing-10-petaflop-supercomputer-power7-to-ship-next-ye/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/ibm-developing-10-petaflop-supercomputer-power7-to-ship-next-ye/
5/10 cuze you're special like all the other users too lazy to verify their names.]]>Dec 7th 2009 5:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/ibm-developing-10-petaflop-supercomputer-power7-to-ship-next-ye/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/ibm-developing-10-petaflop-supercomputer-power7-to-ship-next-ye/Dec 7th 2009 9:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/ibm-developing-10-petaflop-supercomputer-power7-to-ship-next-ye/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/ibm-developing-10-petaflop-supercomputer-power7-to-ship-next-ye/Dec 7th 2009 5:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/ibm-developing-10-petaflop-supercomputer-power7-to-ship-next-ye/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/ibm-developing-10-petaflop-supercomputer-power7-to-ship-next-ye/Dec 8th 2009 9:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/ibm-developing-10-petaflop-supercomputer-power7-to-ship-next-ye/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/ibm-developing-10-petaflop-supercomputer-power7-to-ship-next-ye/Dec 7th 2009 5:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/ibm-developing-10-petaflop-supercomputer-power7-to-ship-next-ye/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/ibm-developing-10-petaflop-supercomputer-power7-to-ship-next-ye/Dec 7th 2009 7:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/ibm-developing-10-petaflop-supercomputer-power7-to-ship-next-ye/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/ibm-developing-10-petaflop-supercomputer-power7-to-ship-next-ye/well they do have the gigantic Beckham Institue here at the university of illinois, who knows, maybe the geniouses here at the cognitive science research facilities might get a piece of the IBM love. ]]>Dec 7th 2009 11:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/ibm-developing-10-petaflop-supercomputer-power7-to-ship-next-ye/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/ibm-developing-10-petaflop-supercomputer-power7-to-ship-next-ye/Dec 8th 2009 10:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/ibm-developing-10-petaflop-supercomputer-power7-to-ship-next-ye/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/ibm-developing-10-petaflop-supercomputer-power7-to-ship-next-ye/Dec 7th 2009 5:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/ibm-developing-10-petaflop-supercomputer-power7-to-ship-next-ye/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/ibm-developing-10-petaflop-supercomputer-power7-to-ship-next-ye/Dec 7th 2009 5:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/ibm-developing-10-petaflop-supercomputer-power7-to-ship-next-ye/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/ibm-developing-10-petaflop-supercomputer-power7-to-ship-next-ye/My nuclear arsenal is embarrassingly small, you could calculate rate of decay on a casio calculator watch. ]]>Dec 7th 2009 5:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/ibm-developing-10-petaflop-supercomputer-power7-to-ship-next-ye/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/ibm-developing-10-petaflop-supercomputer-power7-to-ship-next-ye/Also decay is steady and predictable and requires no calculations does it? ]]>Dec 8th 2009 5:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/ibm-developing-10-petaflop-supercomputer-power7-to-ship-next-ye/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/ibm-developing-10-petaflop-supercomputer-power7-to-ship-next-ye/Dec 7th 2009 5:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/ibm-developing-10-petaflop-supercomputer-power7-to-ship-next-ye/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/ibm-developing-10-petaflop-supercomputer-power7-to-ship-next-ye/Dam your were too fast for me. I was gonna ask if it can run crysis XDDDD]]>Dec 7th 2009 6:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/ibm-developing-10-petaflop-supercomputer-power7-to-ship-next-ye/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/ibm-developing-10-petaflop-supercomputer-power7-to-ship-next-ye/umm 100fps?? you mean 10000 fps? ]]>Dec 7th 2009 7:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/ibm-developing-10-petaflop-supercomputer-power7-to-ship-next-ye/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/ibm-developing-10-petaflop-supercomputer-power7-to-ship-next-ye/Dec 8th 2009 12:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/ibm-developing-10-petaflop-supercomputer-power7-to-ship-next-ye/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/ibm-developing-10-petaflop-supercomputer-power7-to-ship-next-ye/

Side note, its too bad IBM doesnt make consumer processors anymore, the specs for the Power7 are really something to gawk at.
# 45 nm process, 567mm2
# 4.04 GHz clock speed
# max 2 chips per multi chip module

* 4, 6 or 8 cores per chip
o 4 SMT threads per core
o 12 execution units per core:
+ 2 fixed-point units
+ 2 load/store units
+ 4 double-precision floating-point units
+ 1 vector unit supporting VSX
+ 1 decimal floating-point unit
+ 1 branch unit
+ 1 condition register unit


So think about that...8 cores a chip, 4 threads a core, two chips per module. Geekgasm? Yes. ]]>Dec 7th 2009 6:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/ibm-developing-10-petaflop-supercomputer-power7-to-ship-next-ye/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/ibm-developing-10-petaflop-supercomputer-power7-to-ship-next-ye/Dec 7th 2009 7:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/ibm-developing-10-petaflop-supercomputer-power7-to-ship-next-ye/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/ibm-developing-10-petaflop-supercomputer-power7-to-ship-next-ye/Dec 7th 2009 6:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/ibm-developing-10-petaflop-supercomputer-power7-to-ship-next-ye/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/ibm-developing-10-petaflop-supercomputer-power7-to-ship-next-ye/
(Oh yeah. Xserve. Right. No.)]]>Dec 7th 2009 6:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/ibm-developing-10-petaflop-supercomputer-power7-to-ship-next-ye/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/ibm-developing-10-petaflop-supercomputer-power7-to-ship-next-ye/Dec 7th 2009 9:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/ibm-developing-10-petaflop-supercomputer-power7-to-ship-next-ye/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/ibm-developing-10-petaflop-supercomputer-power7-to-ship-next-ye/plus IBM won't be able to make enough of them for Apple unlike Intel has more foundries than IBM. This could be the next serial processor for Playstation coupled with a graphics chip like evergreen or fermi...]]>Dec 7th 2009 11:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/ibm-developing-10-petaflop-supercomputer-power7-to-ship-next-ye/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/ibm-developing-10-petaflop-supercomputer-power7-to-ship-next-ye/
hope that goes in the PS4

can't wait for the next gen

]]>Dec 7th 2009 6:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/ibm-developing-10-petaflop-supercomputer-power7-to-ship-next-ye/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/ibm-developing-10-petaflop-supercomputer-power7-to-ship-next-ye/It's designed for Windows 7.]]>Dec 8th 2009 4:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/ibm-developing-10-petaflop-supercomputer-power7-to-ship-next-ye/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/ibm-developing-10-petaflop-supercomputer-power7-to-ship-next-ye/Dec 7th 2009 7:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/ibm-developing-10-petaflop-supercomputer-power7-to-ship-next-ye/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/ibm-developing-10-petaflop-supercomputer-power7-to-ship-next-ye/Dec 7th 2009 7:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/ibm-developing-10-petaflop-supercomputer-power7-to-ship-next-ye/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/ibm-developing-10-petaflop-supercomputer-power7-to-ship-next-ye/Dec 7th 2009 7:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/ibm-developing-10-petaflop-supercomputer-power7-to-ship-next-ye/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/ibm-developing-10-petaflop-supercomputer-power7-to-ship-next-ye/i kinda hope they do!]]>Dec 7th 2009 7:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/ibm-developing-10-petaflop-supercomputer-power7-to-ship-next-ye/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/ibm-developing-10-petaflop-supercomputer-power7-to-ship-next-ye/Dec 7th 2009 9:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/ibm-developing-10-petaflop-supercomputer-power7-to-ship-next-ye/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/ibm-developing-10-petaflop-supercomputer-power7-to-ship-next-ye/I think he's referring to that newstory about the IT guy of that school district who ran SETI on 5000 computers and then some fat woman on the board found out and went ape.
]]>Dec 8th 2009 6:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/ibm-developing-10-petaflop-supercomputer-power7-to-ship-next-ye/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/ibm-developing-10-petaflop-supercomputer-power7-to-ship-next-ye/Dec 7th 2009 7:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/ibm-developing-10-petaflop-supercomputer-power7-to-ship-next-ye/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/ibm-developing-10-petaflop-supercomputer-power7-to-ship-next-ye/Dec 7th 2009 7:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/ibm-developing-10-petaflop-supercomputer-power7-to-ship-next-ye/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/ibm-developing-10-petaflop-supercomputer-power7-to-ship-next-ye/nah, Skynet runs on everything it's a viral A.I. OS]]>Dec 7th 2009 11:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/ibm-developing-10-petaflop-supercomputer-power7-to-ship-next-ye/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/ibm-developing-10-petaflop-supercomputer-power7-to-ship-next-ye/Dec 7th 2009 9:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/ibm-developing-10-petaflop-supercomputer-power7-to-ship-next-ye/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/ibm-developing-10-petaflop-supercomputer-power7-to-ship-next-ye/We Engineers always make up for the football team ]]>Dec 7th 2009 11:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/ibm-developing-10-petaflop-supercomputer-power7-to-ship-next-ye/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/ibm-developing-10-petaflop-supercomputer-power7-to-ship-next-ye/
Very true, what's your major? I'm a freshman EE ]]>Dec 7th 2009 11:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/ibm-developing-10-petaflop-supercomputer-power7-to-ship-next-ye/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/ibm-developing-10-petaflop-supercomputer-power7-to-ship-next-ye/Dec 8th 2009 9:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/ibm-developing-10-petaflop-supercomputer-power7-to-ship-next-ye/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/ibm-developing-10-petaflop-supercomputer-power7-to-ship-next-ye/Dec 7th 2009 11:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/ibm-developing-10-petaflop-supercomputer-power7-to-ship-next-ye/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/ibm-developing-10-petaflop-supercomputer-power7-to-ship-next-ye/quiet*]]>Dec 8th 2009 5:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/ibm-developing-10-petaflop-supercomputer-power7-to-ship-next-ye/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/07/ibm-developing-10-petaflop-supercomputer-power7-to-ship-next-ye/
At least thats not as bad as the walmart here: there is a RedBox painted bright blue. not joking

Besides my English 101 final, the above comment was the stupidest thing I have ever typed

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