World’s Fastest Super Computer
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Scientists unveiled the world’s fastest supercomputer on Monday, a $100 million machine that for the first time has performed 1,000 trillion calculations per second (called a “petaflop”) in a sustained exercise. Two years ago there wasn’t any computer that could reach 100 “teraflops”, 1-10th the speed of the Roadrunner.
The interconnecting system occupies 6,000 square feet with 57 miles of fiber optics and weighs 500,000 pounds. Although made from commercial parts, the computer consists of 6,948 dual-core computer chips and 12,960 cell engines, and it has 80 terabytes of memory.
The computer, named Roadrunner, is twice as fast as IBM’s Blue Gene system at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, which itself is three times faster than any of the world’s other supercomputers, according to IBM.
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I was wondering what you would do with a computer of this power, assuming you could have one in your home. Leave me a comment and tell me your ideas.
6 Comments
Austin
June 9th, 2008
at 3:26pm
I would make the fastest database of anything in the world. Every single word and every single book, movie, author, artist, nerd (Chris) would be in this database and it would be able to search and provide the results in milliseconds.
theusmale2
June 10th, 2008
at 1:46am
The Beast! 666 Praise God!
DougGregory
June 10th, 2008
at 7:31am
“Shall we play a game?”
LOL - from War Games
laxoriginality
June 10th, 2008
at 10:01am
Write an unused resources counter
Reggie McGraw
June 11th, 2008
at 6:10pm
We have enough databases, and judging from the “relevancy” of Google searches on the internet, a new era of cyberintelligence is needed: integrated cybernetic reasoning (ICR).
ICR is the logical and correlative integration of information into patterns of thought reminiscent of human conceptual patterns. So, for instance, rather than merely seaching the internet for endless hours and receiving many thousands of questionable points of information, such a “Starship Enterprise” computer could draw conclusions and make projections from the vast databases available to it. In short, creativity is taken to the next level by not only confirming what is possible, but also verifying the real and/or potential viability of an idea.
Computational power for ICR heretofore has been severely lacking, but this new Roadrunner device just may have sufficient circuit boards to be up to the task.
Kushagra Udai
June 15th, 2008
at 11:41am
I wonder if you can overclock an entire grid simultaneously
Just a thought.