The World's Fastest Supercomputer

[StarLab]

I need one of these for playing games.

Scientists unveiled the world's fastest supercomputer on Monday, a $100 million machine that for the first time has performed 1,000 trillion calculations per second in a sustained exercise.

To put the computer's speed in perspective, if every one of the 6 billion people on earth used a hand-held computer and worked 24 hours a day it would take them 46 years to do what the Roadrunner computer can do in a single day.

Full Article:http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/06/09/f....ap/index.html

[m42]

Agreed. My PC never seems to render images fast enough.

I wonder how this will benefit the "pi" calculation project.

[redz]

wow, now counter strike on that machine would be such a great experience lol. With technology advances everyday hopefully we can have those for a low price very soon .

[Jacob34]

Thx for the story. I think that amazing. I bet that comp has a few million hd's

[zeruel]

That's interesting! But the price is also superb... I'm happy with my desktop now...

[francis84]

To put the computer's speed in perspective, if every one of the 6 billion people on earth used a hand-held computer and worked 24 hours a day it would take them 46 years to do what the Roadrunner computer can do in a single day.

That was really fast! No wonder it cost $100 million!

[lloyd.velarde@gmail.]

that supercomputer is really cool and really expensive too!

[krahmaan]

This makes me think of that movie "The Terminator". Where the computer starts to think for itself and tries to rule the world with machines. I've noticed that when I play my XBOX, it tries to outthink me. I know that playstation 3 tries even harder.

Hopefully this IBM Roadrunner is not given any artificial intelligence programs that may make it try to outthink its creators.

http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/articles...=2007May25-268

It looks like all this is in its infant stages now, soon to become adult.

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortu...1670/index.htm

I say it's ok to be smart, but one can outthink one's self.

[C.Whyte]

That's almost too fast. What are they even going to do with something like that???

[Sun and kisses]

wow it cost a bomb too haha

[StarLab]

Originally Posted by C.Whyte

That's almost too fast. What are they even going to do with something like that???

Play games and use spreadsheets!

[Luckyman]

Hope my computer too started doing calculations faster after hearing the news about this super computer

[digitalseo]

wow...good work IBM and Los Alamos..
how i wish i could visit there..lol..

now this makes me wonder, the computer can perform 6 billion people computing work...huh

[rbokros]

Man, I thought my Quad core PowerMac was fast....wait, it is!!! These are the types of things that scare the crap out of me....what the hell do you need that much processing available?? My bet is that this gets into the gov hands before it gets into the pubs hands.