SUPER computer.

IBM is building a new super computer, and it sounds damn cool. Read about it <A HREF="http://www.research.ibm.com/bluegene/press_release.html" target="_new">here</A>.

Here's an extract:
"The SMASH architecture differs from existing approaches in three ways:
• It dramatically simplifies the number of instructions carried out by each processor, allowing them to work faster and with significantly lower power and chip surface requirements (the traditional approach is to add complex features to gain performance);
• It will facilitate a massively parallel system capable of more than 8 million simultaneous threads of computation (compared to the maximum of 5000 threads today);
• It will make the computer self-stabilizing and self-healing -- automatically able to overcome failures of individual processors and computing threads.
Blue Gene will consist of more than one million processors, each capable of one billion operations per second (1 gigaflop). Thirty-two of these ultra-fast processors will be placed on a single chip (32 gigaflops). A compact two-foot by two-foot board containing 64 of these chips will be capable of 2 teraflops, making it as powerful as the 8000-square foot ASCI computers.
Eight of these boards will be placed in 6-foot-high racks (16 teraflops), and the final machine (less than 2000 sq. ft.) will consist of 64 racks linked together to achieve the one petaflop performance."

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Well, it would probably only use one of the million processors, but I'd say it would run pretty well.

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It dramatically simplifies the number of instructions carried out by each processor, allowing them to work faster and with significantly lower power and chip surface requirements (the traditional approach is to add complex features to gain performance



I have read about that maybe 1 year ago in this time that was still in R&D

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I doubt it would be able to play wolfenstein properly, these computers are generally only for number crunching, not realtime stuff, if you want to see fast computers doing realtime graphics then you should check out sgi's uber-expensive machines.

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AMD Man and Intel inside agreeing on something?!

I'm sure you could work out some kind of software emulation to make games run on that computer.

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There's a projetc that will kick this things ass that'll be ready in about 4 years. It's called HTMT. There, a single processor will be a capable of 700 to 900 teraflops!

If it's working...overclock it!

HTMT? Got any links?

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>Thirty-two of these ultra-fast processors will be placed on a single chip

Can you believe that ? THIRTY-TWO ! Anyone got an idea on what core this beast will be based ? Not likely to be the Power4.. but still. even 32 Pentium classic style CPU's in one chip would be something I'd want.. might be small enough to fit into an iPaq or something

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Eh, I'm sure that you could run it in software mode with emulated advanced DX9 like effects... Even at a crapy emulator efficiency, you'd still get a super frame rate.

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If it's working...overclock it!