Supercomputer breaks warp speed

[rootbear75]

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An American military supercomputer, !@#$%^&*embled from components originally designed for video game machines, has reached a long-sought-after computing milestone by processing more than 1.026 quadrillion calculations per second.

 

The new machine is more than twice as fast as the previous fastest supercomputer, the IBM BlueGene/L, which is based at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California.

 

The new $133 million supercomputer, called Roadrunner in a reference to the state bird of New Mexico, was devised and built by engineers and scientists at IBM and Los Alamos National Laboratory, based in Los Alamos, New Mexico. It will be used principally to solve classified military problems to ensure that the nation's stockpile of nuclear weapons will continue to work correctly as they age. The Roadrunner will simulate the behavior of the weapons in the first fraction of a second during an explosion.

 

Before it is placed in a classified environment, it will also be used to explore scientific problems like climate change. The greater speed of the Roadrunner will make it possible for scientists to test global climate models with higher accuracy.

http://current.com/items/89010461_supercom...arp_speed_limit

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/06/09/tec...09petaflops.php

Edited June 12, 2008 by rootbear75

[★ Dav]

it is an intersting system, its made with PS3 chips exxentially.

 

Only proiblem here is what does it have to do with voyagers warp core?

[★ Lynx]

Just an analogy to get peoples attention I believe.

 

-Lynx

[X`terrania]

well the ps3 is the better system so they made a good choice my friend

[★ Lynx]

There are much faster processors out there, just depends what they're handling to how fast they are at making their calculations. I believe they're using the Sony chips as they're each a single core, but using some twelve thousand chips to share calculations.

 

I suppose this would be much cheaper than using much more powerful chips, I've seen 80Core micro-processors, but building a machine of equal processing speed would probably be a lot more expensive if they were to use 150 specialised chips rather than 12,000 chips that are already in m!@#$%^&* production. I suppose it would also be a lot more complicated to get 80Core processors to talk to another 150 processors that are alike. I feel sorry for the computer architects that had to design this. Poor guys...

 

Wow, after actually reading the article, they're actually using three different types of processor. The total count of processor cores in the machine is 116,640. I wonder how long it is before they make a computer that can break the exaflop speed. Interesting...

 

As for the !@#$%^&*le...

Warp Speed: 26,192,795.27 Miles Per Second

Road Runner Calculation Speed: 1,026,000,000,000,000 Calculations Per Second

 

-Lynx

[Suicide_Run]

I think....is about time we stop developing Supercomputers and start developing Artificial Intelligent >.>

 

I want to play a bunch of games at the same time on that supercomputer....and crank every graphic details on Uber Super Duper High.

[🜲 Samapico]

As for the !@#$%^&*le...

Warp Speed: 26,192,795.27 Miles Per Second

Road Runner Calculation Speed: 1,026,000,000,000,000 Calculations Per Second

 

-Lynx

...yes... and?

Are you trying to explain the !@#$%^&*le, or pointing out that it makes no sense?

These numbers aren't even close

 

And miles per second are stupid anyway, it would be 300000km/s, or 300 000 000 m/s in international system

[Resol]

 

Lol, 4 am. root just looks for anything he can run and post on ssforums.

 

[★ Lynx]

4AM.. Your time.. :/

 

-Lynx

[🜲 Samapico]

 

Lol, 4 am. root just looks for anything he can run and post on ssforums.

 

Actually, root is posting like once a day now

[Aileron]

I don't think a true artificial intelligence is even possible Suicide. All computer programs need to be based upon algorithms, and it is impossible to create an algorithm capable of handling an infinite number of possible situations as exists in reality. Certainly one can create a computer program which can react inside a computerized, or any other unnatural finite environment, and one can also approximate the number of possibilities pretty good.

[★ Lynx]

The problem all lies in learning behaviour that's not already been defined.

 

-Lynx

[rootbear75]

As for the !@#$%^&*le...

Warp Speed: 26,192,795.27 Miles Per Second

Road Runner Calculation Speed: 1,026,000,000,000,000 Calculations Per Second

 

-Lynx

took the !@#$%^&*le straight off of the page i was viewing

 

 

Lol, 4 am. root just looks for anything he can run and post on ssforums.

 

was watching latest episodes of SuperNews on current.tv's website when i came across that

[★ D1st0rt]

Warp Speed: 26,192,795.27 Miles Per Second

Road Runner Calculation Speed: 1,026,000,000,000,000 Calculations Per Second

 

Road Runner Calculation Speed: 1,026,000 Calculations Per Nanosecond

Warp Speed: 94,605,284,000,000,000,000,000,000 Angstroms Per Year

 

Sorry, warp speed wins

[Dr Brain]

Angstroms per year? That's almost as bogus as furlongs per fortnight.

[★ D1st0rt]

I'm glad you picked up on what I was trying to show

[Hellonearth]

tbh why would you care about stuff like this? in 20-30 years you got such a computer on youre desk. (ofcourse way smaller)

[🜲 Samapico]

tbh why would you care about stuff like this? in 20-30 years you got such a computer on youre desk. (ofcourse way smaller)

Of course, new technology isn't interesting at all and we should not discuss it before it is commercialised...

[Hellonearth]

tbh why would you care about stuff like this? in 20-30 years you got such a computer on youre desk. (ofcourse way smaller)

Of course, new technology isn't interesting at all and we should not discuss it before it is commercialised...

 

gtfo im serious.

[★ D1st0rt]

Because it doesn't just magically appear on your desk in 20-30 years.

[★ Dav]

why would you measure something so large in angstroms per year?

 

FYI 1 angstroms = 10^-10 M. It is used as a unit because it is on the atomic scale and any of the major SI units are either too large or too small for quoting things in very simple numbers.

[🜲 Samapico]

why would you measure something so large in angstroms per year?

That wasn't his point at all...

 

His point was, why would you compare two things of totally different units in the first place? (operations/second vs distance/second) Even worse is that one of the numbers is in MILES per second, which is a very ugly unit and should not be used for anything in the first place

[darkhosis]

there will be miles instead of kilometers as long as i still have bullets in my gun, god !@#$%^&* it all

[Hellonearth]

there will be miles instead of kilometers as long as i still have bullets in my gun, god !@#$%^&* it all

 

 

then i recon youre gun is empty already

[Cancer+]

Fixed the topic !@#$%^&*le because it was bothering the !@#$%^&* out of me. Proceed. Supercomputers and such.