LifeinAsia
msg:3548006 | 7:06 pm on Jan 14, 2008 (gmt 0) |
As long as it's not 12,000 desktops running Windoze. ;)
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waynet
msg:3548656 | 2:34 pm on Jan 15, 2008 (gmt 0) |
| It can make 63 million calculations each second |
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Actually that is pretty slow, the average PC is faster than that. The article should have said 63 million million or 63 trillion calculations each second. Now that is fast.
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thecoalman
msg:3549189 | 11:40 pm on Jan 15, 2008 (gmt 0) |
Location of the worlds fastest computer: [nsa.gov...] Nicknamed: "icouldtellyouthatbutthenidhavetokillyou" Pure specualtion on my part of course.
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surrealillusions
msg:3549572 | 11:41 am on Jan 16, 2008 (gmt 0) |
LifeinAsia - i was thinking along the same lines..as long as this super computer hasn't got vista, then it will be quick ;)
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georgeek
msg:3549580 | 12:09 pm on Jan 16, 2008 (gmt 0) |
I see the machine cost 113 million UK pounds, so why didn't they just buy 12,000 PCs, string them all together and save themselves 110 million?
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adb64
msg:3549588 | 12:50 pm on Jan 16, 2008 (gmt 0) |
And guess what one of the applications is they will be using this thing for: ... working out why weetabix get soggy when you pour milk on them ;) ;)
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[theinquirer.net...]
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ytswy
msg:3550721 | 3:39 pm on Jan 17, 2008 (gmt 0) |
Well if Moore's law holds true the average desktop should be this powerful in less than thirty years. I bet the current Windows startup time will be at longer than it is today..
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longen
msg:3550789 | 4:45 pm on Jan 17, 2008 (gmt 0) |
| It can make 63 million calculations each second |
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My PDA can do that and it cost a bit under £100M.
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Insomniak
msg:3550863 | 5:40 pm on Jan 17, 2008 (gmt 0) |
georgeek, a number of universities have done what you suggested and built supercomputers at a fraction of the cost by using networked macs. Virginia Tech did it first in 2003 with 1100 machines for $5.2 million.
[oreillynet.com...]
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Brett_Tabke
msg:3554476 | 1:18 pm on Jan 22, 2008 (gmt 0) |
If you are going to bring math into the equation, Vegas doubles in size every 10 years. By 2110, there will be 1 trillion people living in vegas. I thought each of Googles datacenters had 10k machines in them? If they have 25 datacenters - wouldn't that be the fastest machine?
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