Japanese supercomputer is no longer world's most powerful supercomputer
 

http://top500.org/lists/plists.php?Y=2004&M=11

Recently, NASA has decided to update it's existing Intel supercomputer named SGI Altix, running on the Voltaire Infiniband interconnect system and Itanium 1.5GHz. This supercomputer has 10160 CPUs and has a performance figure of max 51870 and a peak of 60960 GFlops.

Then comes IBM with their latest supercomputer, the BlueGene/L. Equipped with 32,768 CPUs running at 700MHz each, this supercomputer is currently the fastest in the world with a max of 70720 GFlops and a peak of 91750 GFlops.

The Japanese supercomputer Earth-Simulator had a max of 35860 and a peak of 40960 GFlops. Not bad considering it only has 5,120 CPUs running at 500MHz. With that amount of CPUs and running at such "low" frequency, it's still very impressive.

http://olympics.reuters.com/audi/new...toryID=6750236

That one runs at 70.72 TFLOPs.

Those are the same Supercomputers I mentioned.

what is a GFLOP?

iirc, Floating point Operations Per Second

how fast is a FLOP in mhz/ghz?

Re: Japanese supercomputer is no longer world's most powerful supercomputer
 

WOW 91750 GFlops. That's about 3 times the amount of flops that John Kerry did in his campaign.:p


*Runs and hides*

Re: Re: Japanese supercomputer is no longer world's most powerful supercomputer
 

Actually, it's about 3 times the rate of Kerry's flops... :P

Heh.

This is why you can't trust ghz values.

a FLOP is one floating point operation, this can take any number of cycles on a processor depending on how good the design is.

And here I thought the G5 was the fastest. Well you did say super computer instead of personal computer, so the apple world is still safe. :p

It's safe because it lives in an ivory tower.

er brushed aluminum tower