Supercomputing

[73Zeppelin]

The Blue Gene/L supercomputer has broken its own record to achieve more than double the number of calculations it can do a second. BBC article[^].

[Roger Wright]

"Each person in the world with a handheld calculator would still take decades to do the same calculations Blue Gene is now able to do every second. " Make that centuries, if they all have the same calculator skills as my last batch of math students.:sigh: "...a photo album is like Life, but flat and stuck to pages." - Shog9

[Tom Ollar]

application at 101.5 teraflops, sustained over seven hours on the machine's 131,072 processors Bummer. Just slightly less power than I need to run Visual Studio. Ah well, I'll keep shopping. Maybe Alienware has something in the 200,000 processor range. ;P

[Steve Mayfield]

I wonder how the "folding@home" or "seti@home" networks would compare...folding@home claims to have more than 1,000,000 CPUS participating. Google alone is contributing around 12K machines. Steve