http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/11/darpa-enlists-nvidia-to-build-exascale-supercomputer-thats-100/ Engadget Comments for DARPA enlists NVIDIA to build exascale supercomputer that's '1000x faster' than today's quickest 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/2010/08/11/darpa-enlists-nvidia-to-build-exascale-supercomputer-thats-100/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/11/darpa-enlists-nvidia-to-build-exascale-supercomputer-thats-100/Aug 11th 2010 5:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/11/darpa-enlists-nvidia-to-build-exascale-supercomputer-thats-100/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/11/darpa-enlists-nvidia-to-build-exascale-supercomputer-thats-100/Aug 11th 2010 7:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/11/darpa-enlists-nvidia-to-build-exascale-supercomputer-thats-100/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/11/darpa-enlists-nvidia-to-build-exascale-supercomputer-thats-100/Aug 11th 2010 8:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/11/darpa-enlists-nvidia-to-build-exascale-supercomputer-thats-100/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/11/darpa-enlists-nvidia-to-build-exascale-supercomputer-thats-100/
Which leads to the inevitable question:

Does it play Crysis?]]>Aug 11th 2010 8:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/11/darpa-enlists-nvidia-to-build-exascale-supercomputer-thats-100/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/11/darpa-enlists-nvidia-to-build-exascale-supercomputer-thats-100/Aug 11th 2010 11:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/11/darpa-enlists-nvidia-to-build-exascale-supercomputer-thats-100/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/11/darpa-enlists-nvidia-to-build-exascale-supercomputer-thats-100/
You'd think they would ask the company that has the most powerful graphics chips on the market. But ok]]>Aug 11th 2010 11:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/11/darpa-enlists-nvidia-to-build-exascale-supercomputer-thats-100/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/11/darpa-enlists-nvidia-to-build-exascale-supercomputer-thats-100/Aug 11th 2010 2:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/11/darpa-enlists-nvidia-to-build-exascale-supercomputer-thats-100/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/11/darpa-enlists-nvidia-to-build-exascale-supercomputer-thats-100/Aug 11th 2010 5:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/11/darpa-enlists-nvidia-to-build-exascale-supercomputer-thats-100/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/11/darpa-enlists-nvidia-to-build-exascale-supercomputer-thats-100/Aug 11th 2010 5:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/11/darpa-enlists-nvidia-to-build-exascale-supercomputer-thats-100/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/11/darpa-enlists-nvidia-to-build-exascale-supercomputer-thats-100/if by helping you mean faster computing it's FAIL outcome, then yes, it will help. ]]>Aug 11th 2010 6:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/11/darpa-enlists-nvidia-to-build-exascale-supercomputer-thats-100/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/11/darpa-enlists-nvidia-to-build-exascale-supercomputer-thats-100/*sigh* Theres one in every article.]]>Aug 11th 2010 6:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/11/darpa-enlists-nvidia-to-build-exascale-supercomputer-thats-100/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/11/darpa-enlists-nvidia-to-build-exascale-supercomputer-thats-100/
Well excuse me if I want to see my tax dollars put to better use of the general public. Much though I enjoy DARPA's creations, I want to see the USA's debt to decrease and the money to be spent on.... I dont know... creating jobs?]]>Aug 11th 2010 6:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/11/darpa-enlists-nvidia-to-build-exascale-supercomputer-thats-100/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/11/darpa-enlists-nvidia-to-build-exascale-supercomputer-thats-100/Aug 11th 2010 7:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/11/darpa-enlists-nvidia-to-build-exascale-supercomputer-thats-100/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/11/darpa-enlists-nvidia-to-build-exascale-supercomputer-thats-100/
nVidia doesn't employ people?]]>Aug 11th 2010 7:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/11/darpa-enlists-nvidia-to-build-exascale-supercomputer-thats-100/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/11/darpa-enlists-nvidia-to-build-exascale-supercomputer-thats-100/
We are spending millions of dollars in scholarship for higher education. What good is that for when there are no new jobs. We should immediately stop the education system untill we can guarantee new graduates a job.

We should also stop import of these rubbish gizmos that engadget reader like to buy. We don't want to send our Dollars to foreign countries like China and increase our debts. If china doesn't help use in creating new jobs then to hell with their products. we don't want them.

hmm lets see what else we stop. any takers

/s]]>Aug 11th 2010 7:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/11/darpa-enlists-nvidia-to-build-exascale-supercomputer-thats-100/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/11/darpa-enlists-nvidia-to-build-exascale-supercomputer-thats-100/Yes, it will play a lot of tic-tac-toe and somehow relate it to our current situation.]]>Aug 11th 2010 12:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/11/darpa-enlists-nvidia-to-build-exascale-supercomputer-thats-100/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/11/darpa-enlists-nvidia-to-build-exascale-supercomputer-thats-100/Aug 11th 2010 6:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/11/darpa-enlists-nvidia-to-build-exascale-supercomputer-thats-100/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/11/darpa-enlists-nvidia-to-build-exascale-supercomputer-thats-100/Aug 11th 2010 6:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/11/darpa-enlists-nvidia-to-build-exascale-supercomputer-thats-100/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/11/darpa-enlists-nvidia-to-build-exascale-supercomputer-thats-100/haha yeah]]>Aug 11th 2010 6:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/11/darpa-enlists-nvidia-to-build-exascale-supercomputer-thats-100/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/11/darpa-enlists-nvidia-to-build-exascale-supercomputer-thats-100/
It still won't be as powerful as the WOPR.


;)]]>Aug 11th 2010 6:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/11/darpa-enlists-nvidia-to-build-exascale-supercomputer-thats-100/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/11/darpa-enlists-nvidia-to-build-exascale-supercomputer-thats-100/Aug 11th 2010 7:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/11/darpa-enlists-nvidia-to-build-exascale-supercomputer-thats-100/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/11/darpa-enlists-nvidia-to-build-exascale-supercomputer-thats-100/
DARPA == Skynet]]>Aug 11th 2010 6:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/11/darpa-enlists-nvidia-to-build-exascale-supercomputer-thats-100/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/11/darpa-enlists-nvidia-to-build-exascale-supercomputer-thats-100/
or do they mean something other than flops?]]>Aug 11th 2010 7:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/11/darpa-enlists-nvidia-to-build-exascale-supercomputer-thats-100/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/11/darpa-enlists-nvidia-to-build-exascale-supercomputer-thats-100/
Today's supercomputers are already in the petaflops range.

http://www.top500.org/list/2010/06/100]]>Aug 11th 2010 7:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/11/darpa-enlists-nvidia-to-build-exascale-supercomputer-thats-100/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/11/darpa-enlists-nvidia-to-build-exascale-supercomputer-thats-100/
oh - my peek at wikipedia seems to have been too hasty]]>Aug 11th 2010 8:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/11/darpa-enlists-nvidia-to-build-exascale-supercomputer-thats-100/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/11/darpa-enlists-nvidia-to-build-exascale-supercomputer-thats-100/I doubt counting up Prime Numbers is why they need this.
Serious question.]]>Aug 11th 2010 7:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/11/darpa-enlists-nvidia-to-build-exascale-supercomputer-thats-100/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/11/darpa-enlists-nvidia-to-build-exascale-supercomputer-thats-100/
I'm thinking the war of the future is fought in a computer-simulated virtual world that mimics the real world. So you can simulate the risk of waging war and the computer returns the probability of success (or failure) all without ever firing a bullet. ]]>Aug 11th 2010 11:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/11/darpa-enlists-nvidia-to-build-exascale-supercomputer-thats-100/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/11/darpa-enlists-nvidia-to-build-exascale-supercomputer-thats-100/
ever heard of boinc or any of the @Home projects?

try googling it]]>Aug 11th 2010 11:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/11/darpa-enlists-nvidia-to-build-exascale-supercomputer-thats-100/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/11/darpa-enlists-nvidia-to-build-exascale-supercomputer-thats-100/
Other than that, anything from analyzing information from space to look for intelligent life, research genes or help predict the weather...]]>Aug 11th 2010 5:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/11/darpa-enlists-nvidia-to-build-exascale-supercomputer-thats-100/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/11/darpa-enlists-nvidia-to-build-exascale-supercomputer-thats-100/Aug 11th 2010 7:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/11/darpa-enlists-nvidia-to-build-exascale-supercomputer-thats-100/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/11/darpa-enlists-nvidia-to-build-exascale-supercomputer-thats-100/
Neither of those projects will ever be "finished", no matter how fast you do it.]]>Aug 12th 2010 3:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/11/darpa-enlists-nvidia-to-build-exascale-supercomputer-thats-100/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/11/darpa-enlists-nvidia-to-build-exascale-supercomputer-thats-100/Aug 11th 2010 8:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/11/darpa-enlists-nvidia-to-build-exascale-supercomputer-thats-100/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/11/darpa-enlists-nvidia-to-build-exascale-supercomputer-thats-100/Aug 11th 2010 8:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/11/darpa-enlists-nvidia-to-build-exascale-supercomputer-thats-100/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/11/darpa-enlists-nvidia-to-build-exascale-supercomputer-thats-100/
Today's simulations are no longer about just inverting matrices. There is quite a bit of logic and branch prediction involved. Unfortunately this means that stream computing paradigms don't apply all that well and while there may be small speedups, the money used on a $4000 graphic card is better spent on memory or a faster cpu.]]>Aug 11th 2010 8:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/11/darpa-enlists-nvidia-to-build-exascale-supercomputer-thats-100/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/11/darpa-enlists-nvidia-to-build-exascale-supercomputer-thats-100/Aug 11th 2010 9:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/11/darpa-enlists-nvidia-to-build-exascale-supercomputer-thats-100/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/11/darpa-enlists-nvidia-to-build-exascale-supercomputer-thats-100/1000 times faster at 1000000 times the power requirements...

^_^]]>Aug 11th 2010 9:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/11/darpa-enlists-nvidia-to-build-exascale-supercomputer-thats-100/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/11/darpa-enlists-nvidia-to-build-exascale-supercomputer-thats-100/GPUs use less energy per FLOP than CPUs]]>Aug 11th 2010 12:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/11/darpa-enlists-nvidia-to-build-exascale-supercomputer-thats-100/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/11/darpa-enlists-nvidia-to-build-exascale-supercomputer-thats-100/Not nVidia GPU's:P]]>Aug 11th 2010 1:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/11/darpa-enlists-nvidia-to-build-exascale-supercomputer-thats-100/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/11/darpa-enlists-nvidia-to-build-exascale-supercomputer-thats-100/Aug 11th 2010 10:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/11/darpa-enlists-nvidia-to-build-exascale-supercomputer-thats-100/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/11/darpa-enlists-nvidia-to-build-exascale-supercomputer-thats-100/
A GPU is a processor specialized and dedicated in graphics processing. When it stops exclusively processing graphics and becomes the heart of a computer, it's okay to call it a CPU again. ]]>Aug 11th 2010 10:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/11/darpa-enlists-nvidia-to-build-exascale-supercomputer-thats-100/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/11/darpa-enlists-nvidia-to-build-exascale-supercomputer-thats-100/I imagine these GPUs would still be getting direction from CPUs. In this case, the CPU would be the lazy construction manager eating a burrito in the air conditioned truck telling the grunts to work harder.]]>Aug 11th 2010 12:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/11/darpa-enlists-nvidia-to-build-exascale-supercomputer-thats-100/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/11/darpa-enlists-nvidia-to-build-exascale-supercomputer-thats-100/Aug 11th 2010 10:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/11/darpa-enlists-nvidia-to-build-exascale-supercomputer-thats-100/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/11/darpa-enlists-nvidia-to-build-exascale-supercomputer-thats-100/And how long would it take to hack into a defense system and unencrypt them?]]>Aug 11th 2010 12:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/11/darpa-enlists-nvidia-to-build-exascale-supercomputer-thats-100/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/11/darpa-enlists-nvidia-to-build-exascale-supercomputer-thats-100/Get someone to memorise it.]]>Aug 11th 2010 1:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/11/darpa-enlists-nvidia-to-build-exascale-supercomputer-thats-100/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/11/darpa-enlists-nvidia-to-build-exascale-supercomputer-thats-100/Aug 11th 2010 11:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/11/darpa-enlists-nvidia-to-build-exascale-supercomputer-thats-100/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/11/darpa-enlists-nvidia-to-build-exascale-supercomputer-thats-100/
Well, in the Navy at least, they just changed it so that leave requests can only be done on computer, and you don't want to hold up that process!]]>Aug 12th 2010 3:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/08/11/darpa-enlists-nvidia-to-build-exascale-supercomputer-thats-100/http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/11/darpa-enlists-nvidia-to-build-exascale-supercomputer-thats-100/Aug 11th 2010 1:18PM