AMD-powered Jaguar is 'Fastest Supercomputer'
Cray Inc.'s AMD-powered Jaguar system has snagged the coveted title of fastest computer in the world.
Finally beating out IBM's Roadrunner, the first system in the world to break the petaflops barrier in the summer of last year, it was third time lucky for Jaguar as it finally topped TOP500's 34th list of supercomputers with 1.759 petaflops.
According to TOP500, the Jaguar’s number of compute cores has been increased from 129600 to 224162, since last list was compiled. The supercomputer has also been equipped with AMD’s new six-core ‘Istanbul’ processors, which have only been available since August, and 2GB of memory per core. Each compute node features two Opterons with 12 cores and 16GB of shared memory. The whole system has 300TB of memory and 10PB of hard disc space.
The upgraded Jaguar at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, now boasts a speed of 1.759 petaflop per second from its 224,162 cores. The Roadrunner runner-up posted processing speeds of 1.04 petaflop per second.
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That is insane. I would like to see a price tag for that much power
Can it play Crysis though?
Probably without any help from a GPU.
HOT DAMN!
That joke it's old and I think I hate it!
Would be great to type up my word documents on
Can it play Crysis though?
That joke it's old and I think I hate it!
We ALL hate it!!!
I wonder how much of that computing power they actually use at one time. It seems to me that the way applications are written these days 222,162 threads would be hard to use.
"petaflops per second"
Redundant. FLOPS = FLoating point Operations Per Second.
Dammit, stop saying petaflops per second.
I wonder how much of that computing power they actually use at one time. It seems to me that the way applications are written these days 222,162 threads would be hard to use.
Um, they aren't spending millions and millions of dollars JUST for epeen inches. The scientific applications for which these kinds of computers are used can in fact utilize most of the available CPU time.
Get the media to stop calling it the HIV virus, too, while you are at it.
2 points to AMD
this just sounds awsome, hopefully it is used for the good of humanity.
P.S: hopefully doen't take over the world lol
I think petaflops per second would be a measure of acceleration - That would be pretty impressive:
1.759 * 10^15 operations per second per second; it out to be up in the Exaflop range after only a few minutes!
That's Damned impressive!
A win for AMD.
Can it play Crysis though?
Can you play the skin flute?
Must take a power station to run the thing... and I bet it generates enough Global Warming all by itself (between coal burning power generation and 40,000 HSF's) that Al Gore cries every time it powers up.
Don't worry, it's at Oakridge, they have an entire nuclear power plant to run it, lol.
It would be interesting to see what data was analyzed on the previous Jaguar and the current one and comparison on achievements. and who are their clients? Is movie makers render their HD videos? Sony pictures? Columbia Pictures? This is interesting....
Can it play Crysis though?
Can Crysis run on Linux?!
No. I am sorry you can't run Crysis. Go cry to EA.
Or quit making stupid jokes.
Redundant. FLOPS = FLoating point Operations Per Second.
Not only is it redundant, but if you think about it, shouldn't it actually be FPOPS?
"petaflops per second"Redundant. FLOPS = FLoating point Operations Per Second.
Should be fixed now.
To be honest, I doubt even this computer can run Crysis effectively.
Judging by the fact that a 3 year old game still can't run at max settings on even some of the highest end consumer hardware, it's pretty obvious it's just a poorly coded piece of shit.
petaflops? it runs at petaphile operation speed!
To be honest, I doubt even this computer can run Crysis effectively. Judging by the fact that a 3 year old game still can't run at max settings on even some of the highest end consumer hardware, it's pretty obvious it's just a poorly coded piece of shit.
Not efficient coding is one aspect. The main reason why PCs still can't run it is the game is still the best looking and the most graphically intensive game ever created. Crysis 2 with the Cryengine 3 will actually be a downgrade so consoles can play it. And technically, the new dx11 ATI video cards CAN max out Crysis. A single ATI 5870 can play Crysis at 1920x1080 with everything set to Very High.
Can it play Crysis though?
No that joke never gets old. Hahahahahaha
The Crysis joke is played out let it go!!! Big props to AMD!!!
this just sounds awsome, hopefully it is used for the good of humanity.
I think they use these things to run nuclear explosion simulations to keep the US stockpile of weapons up to date.
Not efficient coding is one aspect. The main reason why PCs still can't run it is the game is still the best looking and the most graphically intensive game ever created. Crysis 2 with the Cryengine 3 will actually be a downgrade so consoles can play it. And technically, the new dx11 ATI video cards CAN max out Crysis. A single ATI 5870 can play Crysis at 1920x1080 with everything set to Very High.
that's really nice
but my laptop with a nvidia 9600m gt can play it at that res
the question is how many fps does it get?
"The whole system has 300TB of memory and 10PB of hard disc space"
2GB per core*224,162 cores=448.324 TB of memory. Not sure what the actual amount is, but that is what the given data actually adds up to.
Good for AMD and Cray. I am interested in the kind of models and simulations that this beast runs...
Makes my i7 look like a 486 lol!!!
Quantum computers would be probably orders of magnitude more powerful than these super computers but they'll hardly ever play Crysis. They will be super fast in destroying cryptocodes but I believe they will be no good for playing games at least that's what the scientists say about them.
So super fast computer doesn't mean - super games 