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Cray Takes Back Supercomputer Crown
Posted 11/16/09 at 11:45:19 AM by Paul Lilly
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IBM's Roadrunner system at the U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico is no longer the planet's most powerful supercomputer. That distinction now belongs to a Cray supercomputer named "Jaguar" at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, which regained the performance crown over the weekend, ComputerWorld reports.
Jaguar, which benefited from a few recent upgrades, is now capable of 1,759 petaflops per second courtesy of 224,162 processor cores. That's enough to jump ahead of IBM's Roadrunner, which dropped to 1,042 petaflops per second after it was repartitioned.
Number three on the list of supercomputers is Kraken at the National Institute for Computational Sciences at the University of Tennessee. Kraken is capable of churning out 832 teraflops per second and was ranked No. 6 in June.
One of the more interesting supercomputers belongs to China. The hybrid Intel-AMD Tianhe-1 in the city of Tianjin pushes out 563 teraflops per second, putting it in fifth place. China's supercomputer combines Intel's Xeon processors with AMD-brand GPUs as accelerators. Each node contains two Xeon chips attached to two AMD GPUs.
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Just think ... in ten years,
Submitted by RtDK on Mon, 12/14/2009 - 10:49pm
Just think ... in ten years, all that computing power will fit inside your personal tower.
wonder how it folds?
Submitted by JoetheMobster on Mon, 11/16/2009 - 10:53pm
wonder how it folds?
Are we all in the EU?
Submitted by Belboz99 on Mon, 11/16/2009 - 9:54pm
Article should read either:
1,759 teraflops
or
1.759 petaflops
or in the case of the EU, most countries would use:
1,759 petaflops due to the frequent reversal of the , and . characters and thier uses over there. Was over in Gemany, a few years back, took quite a while to get used to seeing beer in glasses with sizes like "0,5 L" for one half liter.
Dan O.
Submitted by emperor3d on Mon, 11/16/2009 - 9:15pm
I'd love to see what it looks like in that housing rig. I'd also find it particularly interesting to know what the temperature requirements/ventilation are for something like that.
Submitted by kiaghi7 on Mon, 11/16/2009 - 5:38pm
All that power and it still can't run Crysis worth a crap :D
Just goes to show, it's not the machine but the code you put in... Garbage in garbage out!
well blame the lack of GPU
Submitted by nekollx on Mon, 11/16/2009 - 5:41pm
well blame the lack of GPU for that..though the china one....
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Submitted by zodi on Mon, 11/16/2009 - 1:25pm
Hate to see there electricity bill! Mind you one of those in your basement would keep you toasty warm through the winter.
Submitted by spjcr on Mon, 11/16/2009 - 1:09pm
"is now capable of 1,759 petaflops per second"
i think you meant to say teraflops here? or 1.759
Submitted by emperor3d on Mon, 11/16/2009 - 12:43pm
But can it run Crysis?
Submitted by aldude505 on Mon, 11/16/2009 - 12:55pm
How did I know that somewhere in this article this question would be asked??? Haha kinda makes me proud to be a Maximum PC fan!
Submitted by emperor3d on Mon, 11/16/2009 - 1:07pm
I just had to do it :(
Would you like to play a game?
Submitted by alanmc76 on Mon, 11/16/2009 - 1:10pm
Ever seen WarGames? ;)
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Submitted by ar09 on Mon, 11/16/2009 - 12:04pm
wow this is so cool
can they actually do anything useful besides playing chess or running benchmarks?
completely waste of money!
Umm...
Submitted by Techrocket9 on Mon, 11/16/2009 - 12:57pm
They use them for mega projects like analysing the atmosphere.
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I still think it's amazing
Submitted by dag1992 on Mon, 11/16/2009 - 1:11pm
I still think it's amazing how complex weather patterns are and can become for them to need so much power, and the weathermen are still wrong haha.
Submitted by alanmc76 on Mon, 11/16/2009 - 12:46pm
Do a search on Los Alamos and Oak Ridge, that should give you a pretty good idea of what they are doing with all those flops. I can say with some inside knowledge they are not running benchmarks...wink, wink.
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Submitted by austin43 on Mon, 11/16/2009 - 11:59am
looks pretty amazing.
And Paul, saying flops per second is a bit redundant. flops = floating point operations per second.
Submitted by nforce on Mon, 11/16/2009 - 11:56am
i wonder what the NSA has?
Submitted by Arrowdodger on Mon, 11/16/2009 - 12:53pm
The ability to go toe to toe with all of Europe?
Submitted by nforce on Mon, 11/16/2009 - 11:56am
i wonder what the NSA has?
Submitted by win7fanboi on Mon, 11/16/2009 - 11:39am
no comments... no one cares... unstick the post
Submitted by nekollx on Mon, 11/16/2009 - 12:34pm
of couse because CLEARLY you know what interests everyone, and anything that does not interest you is useless.
Also nothing is "stickied" it will push down when there is a new article
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Submitted by win7fanboi on Mon, 11/16/2009 - 1:34pm
since that is the only thing you have to say on the topic I say you prove my point...
Submitted by nekollx on Mon, 11/16/2009 - 1:45pm
*points up thread*
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i do care.
Submitted by LVmonkey on Mon, 11/16/2009 - 12:23pm
For a while now there has been a major debate for how to best do huge projects like trying to better understand how to predict traffic (and how it would change if you build a street in a majorly busy area...before laying down the green), for example.
There was a time that all thought the supercomputer/mainframe was dead... to the point that IBM renamed their newest at the time to T-Rex (i believe it was still in the big blue product line). The mainframe killer was thought to be the server-farm. It's now looking like there is a shift back. maybe because of the cloud mentality.
Just because you can't figure out what to do with that kind of computing power doesn't mean the rest of us enthusiasts don't drool at that kind of power.
p.s. --obligatory: 'will it play crisis?'
Submitted by win7fanboi on Mon, 11/16/2009 - 1:36pm
i care if there is any thing significant to report on the supercomputers front... an exponential change in the processing capacity, etc, etc... not some increment that gives bragging rights to a particualar supercomputer... I am interested in what they are used for but not when they last vaccumed the boxes...
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