NCSA's 11.5 PFlops Blue Waters Supercomputer in Testing

[Guest]

The National Center For Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) has opened its Blue Waters system to the science community.

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[cats_Paw]

AMD with nvidia... Brace yourself, "But can it run Crysis?" Comments Incoming.

 

[Guest]

but can it run crysis

 

[monktongaz]

I don't know about Crysis, but just imagine what this baby could do with Football Manager 2013.

 

[grantwar]

Really? crysis and football manager...I think you guys are missing the bigger picture here!

Just imagine Solitaire running on that beauty

 

[vittau]

It takes some serious creativity and ingenuity to program for 49.000+ cores.

 

[freggo]

How about Pong in multi-player mode...

 

[jn77]

I could put that to good use with Photoshop and Premier for 4k video editing 10000x speed

 

[memadmax]

[citation][nom]vittau[/nom]It takes some serious creativity and ingenuity to program for 49.000+ cores.[/citation]

Not really, all you have to do is create a loop that creates worker threads for all the cores.

 

[silverblue]

I bet they also have an excuse as to the CPU choice... "well, it seemed a good idea two/three years back...".

 

[wiyosaya]

[citation][nom]memadmax[/nom]Not really, all you have to do is create a loop that creates worker threads for all the cores.[/citation]
And have a data set that you can split into 49,000 parts.

 

[A Bad Day]

For a second, I thought they used Netburst CPUs.

That place would've became the world's largest and most expensive baking oven.

 

[cookoy]

those test and evaluaton suite better not include iTune

 

[buckcm]

But how would it handle a while(1){ fork(); } loop?

 

[darkavenger123]

But can it play Crysis???

ok, just joking...don't like Crysis anyway...

 

[blazorthon]

[citation][nom]cookoy[/nom]those test and evaluaton suite better not include iTune [/citation]

Why not? One instance per core for the entire system could be run as a benchmark. Remember, software doesn't need to be multi-threaded to benefit from multiple cores if it can have multiple instances run in parallel and I see no reason for why you couldn't do that with iTunes.