http://us.cnn.com/2010/TECH/innovation/10/28/china.supercomputer.mashable/index.html?hpt=Sbin

The new computer set a performance record by crunching 2.507 petaflops of data at once. The previous leader, a computer called Cray XT5 Jaguar and located at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, completed 1.75 petaflop calculations.

http://us.cnn.com/2010/TECH/innovation/10/28/china.supercomputer.mashable/index.html?hpt=Sbin

The new computer set a performance record by crunching 2.507 petaflops of data at once. The previous leader, a computer called Cray XT5 Jaguar and located at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, completed 1.75 petaflop calculations.

I hope they don't run Boinc on that thing, it could power thru all projects in a few minutes and we would have no work!

Its located in Tianjin, isn't it? Gee, which penguin do we know that was in Tianjin in March ? Of course, if I tell you "why" I was there, then I'll have to....

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http://us.cnn.com/2010/TECH/innovation/10/28/china.supercomputer.mashable/index.html?hpt=Sbin

The new computer set a performance record by crunching 2.507 petaflops of data at once. The previous leader, a computer called Cray XT5 Jaguar and located at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, completed 1.75 petaflop calculations.

I hope they don't run Boinc on that thing, it could power thru all projects in a few minutes and we would have no work!

that would be a good thing because we might find some cures

Its located in Tianjin, isn't it? Gee, which penguin do we know that was in Tianjin in March ? Of course, if I tell you "why" I was there, then I'll have to....

So NOW we know what you do, you build high end computers for other Countries!! Well done my friend, WELL DONE!!!

http://us.cnn.com/2010/TECH/innovation/10/28/china.supercomputer.mashable/index.html?hpt=Sbin

The new computer set a performance record by crunching 2.507 petaflops of data at once. The previous leader, a computer called Cray XT5 Jaguar and located at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, completed 1.75 petaflop calculations.

I hope they don't run Boinc on that thing, it could power thru all projects in a few minutes and we would have no work!

that would be a good thing because we might find some cures

But our little desktops wouldn't have anything to do then? What a dilemma that would be, find a cure or keep on crunching. I guess a cure would be better and then work on finding a cure for something else. Do you think a project, ANY project, could keep a computer like that supplied with enough work to max it out? I do not think so.

What was that standard speech, when stationed on CG-64 (plankowner), "I can neither confirm, nor deny, the presence of nuclear weapons, aboard this ship..."

Its located in Tianjin, isn't it? Gee, which penguin do we know that was in Tianjin in March ? Of course, if I tell you "why" I was there, then I'll have to....

So NOW we know what you do, you build high end computers for other Countries!! Well done my friend, WELL DONE!!!

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They don't get built if they can't keep 'em busy. Much of it's FLOPS is from GPUs, so that limits applicability of the machine.

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Rosetta Moderator: Mod.Sense

More technical info there: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tianhe-I

Here are some excerpts:

Purpose Petroleum exploration, aircraft simulation

Originally, Tianhe-1 was powered by 4,096 Intel Xeon E5540 processors and 1,024 Intel Xeon E5450 processors, with 5,120 AMD GPUs which were made up of 2,560 dual-GPU ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 graphics cards

In October 2010, Tianhe-1A, a separate supercomputer, was unveiled at HPC 2010 China.[11] It is now equipped with 14,336 Xeon X5670 processors and 7,168 Nvidia Tesla M2050 general purpose GPUs. 2,048 NUDT FT1000 heterogeneous processors are also installed in the system, but their computing power was not counted into the machine's official Linpack statistics as of October 2010

The supercomputer is installed at the National Supercomputing Center, Tianjin, and is used to carry out computations for petroleum exploration and aircraft simulation.[8] It is an "open access" computer meaning it provides services for other countries.

Think Penguin was involved in this machine since it is a Linux system
He needs it to predict his route to the feeding breeding grounds.



Oh and more specifically here is their version of what the computer is made of and what it is used for: http://nscc-tj.gov.cn/en/show.asp?id=191

* Petroleum exploration

* Biological medicine research

* Simulation of large aircraft design

* Remote sensing data processing

* Data analyzing of financial engineering

* Simulation of environment research

They don't get built if they can't keep 'em busy. Much of it's FLOPS is from GPUs, so that limits applicability of the machine.

Yeah but one can dream, maybe Milky Way will come calling, just to do a test of course!

More technical info there: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tianhe-I

Here are some excerpts:

Purpose Petroleum exploration, aircraft simulation

Originally, Tianhe-1 was powered by 4,096 Intel Xeon E5540 processors and 1,024 Intel Xeon E5450 processors, with 5,120 AMD GPUs which were made up of 2,560 dual-GPU ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 graphics cards

In October 2010, Tianhe-1A, a separate supercomputer, was unveiled at HPC 2010 China.[11] It is now equipped with 14,336 Xeon X5670 processors and 7,168 Nvidia Tesla M2050 general purpose GPUs. 2,048 NUDT FT1000 heterogeneous processors are also installed in the system, but their computing power was not counted into the machine's official Linpack statistics as of October 2010

The supercomputer is installed at the National Supercomputing Center, Tianjin, and is used to carry out computations for petroleum exploration and aircraft simulation.[8] It is an "open access" computer meaning it provides services for other countries.

Think Penguin was involved in this machine since it is a Linux system
He needs it to predict his route to the feeding breeding grounds.



Oh and more specifically here is their version of what the computer is made of and what it is used for: http://nscc-tj.gov.cn/en/show.asp?id=191

* Petroleum exploration

* Biological medicine research

* Simulation of large aircraft design

* Remote sensing data processing

* Data analyzing of financial engineering

* Simulation of environment research

Oh so "Simulation of environment research" means they will be doing Climate Prediction then! And since "Biological medicine research" means Malaria! So a Boincing they WILL go!

Penguins building linux computers in china? Not.

Quoting that great tv show Mission Impossible: "The Secretary will deny any knowledge of your actions"

About 40'F warmer in Houston than DC, lol !

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"disavow" :)

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Rosetta Moderator: Mod.Sense

lol mod, showing off your television preferences?

"disavow" :)

"prowess" :)

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Rosetta Moderator: Mod.Sense

your making my head hurt! lol

Here is a well-balanced article and reference to a paper that attempts to weigh the strengths of GPU as compared to the Power RISC processors used in BlueGene systems. In a nutshell, their finding as to which is better was "it depends".

Depending on what you wanted your supercomputer to do, the one in China may not be the fastest. Or may be it is, but with a huge power cost difference.

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Rosetta Moderator: Mod.Sense

Well chinese type of brains figured out paper and gun powder which significantly boosted middle age civilization. Now with this shiny new SC they might figure out something useful hopefully.

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The sad part is that the Chinese super computer is that runs Windows 95 and was built purely for playing Solitaire. :)

memory
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nf/20101224/bs_nf/76650