fastest computer

by biggz • 10 Jun 2008, 07:47 • Journals
RoadRunner
http://www.technologyreview.com/Wire/20882/?nlid=1134&a=f

QuoteThe technology breakthrough was accomplished by engineers from the Los Alamos National Laboratory and IBM Corp. on a computer to be used primarily on nuclear weapons work, including simulating nuclear explosions.


Seriously... ;_______________;
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Rhand 10 Jun 2008, 08:48
Windows or Linux?
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goldfarmer 10 Jun 2008, 09:06
hi im back from zeh banhammer
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sine 10 Jun 2008, 09:37
It uses 97,000 (or something like that) modified microprocessors used in PS3's.

Who said gaming is good for nothing? :O
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OfficerCohen 10 Jun 2008, 09:45
how much fps i will have @ ultra high @ crysis with that?
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huumemikko 10 Jun 2008, 09:57
so much the game crashes i guess :P
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OfficerCohen 10 Jun 2008, 09:58
wat? :x
i will play ball with you, do you think i will have good fps @ et ;(
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flms 10 Jun 2008, 11:20
youd still need a good gfx card...
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darthmob 10 Jun 2008, 12:09
impressive!
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Furiouz 10 Jun 2008, 13:03
Quotea $100 million machine that for the first time has performed 1,000 trillion calculations per second in a sustained exercise.


wow.

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QuoteOr, if each of the world's 6 billion people worked on hand-held computers for 24 hours a day, it would take them 46 years to do what the Roadrunner computer can do in a single day.


2nd wow.
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b 10 Jun 2008, 13:37
Superb.
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finkregh 10 Jun 2008, 14:09
Quotethe computer consists of 6,948 dual-core computer chips and 12,960 cell engines, and it has 80 terabytes of memory housed in 288 connected refrigerator-sized racks.


"ok"
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