World's FASTEST Computer

[SARGE]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20021217/ap_on_hi_te/japan_supercomputer_1

[juppy]

Running 35.6 trillion calculations per second, the Earth Simulator is the fastest supercomputer in the world, almost five times faster than the next best one and as fast as the top 5 U.S. supercomputers combined.
Hmmm.....I don't remember anybody telling me that the awesome speed of my 150MHz Pentium was going to be added to 4 other computers. :D j/k
Man! How'd you like to have to trouble shoot a bad stick of RAM in that thing? :)

[Computer Hobbyist]

How do those things work? More importantly how do you combine 6 computers to make a faster supercomputer? Got to get the title back from those Japanese fellows.

CH

[Tuf]

That's interesting. Thirty Five Million cubic feet of air exchanged every ten seconds. I wonder how accurate that statement is?

[Blakhart]

That would call for a really big fan....

[dackerman]

...predict natural disasters over the next few centuries.


Wow, thats kind of freaky.

[Black Ice]

Hay you found my christmas present. but I have one question does it come with a joystick. :)

[raftero]

amd or intel?

[gladiator]

Instead of using all that air ,why not use refrigeration. They must have a heck of a filtration system, imagine them air filters.:rolleyes:

[arubahounds]

Think those Japanese scientists ever get the urge to nudge the bus speed just to see if they can get it up to a full 36 trillion?

[i3OSS]

::evi laughter:::
::overclock::
MuaHahHHAahA!


Eh HEM mines faster ;)

[TwoRails]

Originally posted by raftero
amd or intel?

Now that you mention it, Sandia and Cray will be building the next supercomputer with AMD

TwoRails