10 petaflops... a lot of flops.
Fujitsu is now shipping the first parts to its next-generation supercomputer to the Japanese government-funded RIKEN research institute.
The supercomputer, called K, will have 800 racks with 80,000 Fujitsu SPARC 64 VIIIfx processors running at 2.2GHz.
Fujitsu announced this new processor during May of 2009, and great things are expected of it when it'll be the brains behind what looks to be the world's fastest supercomputer – by a fair margin. The only problem is that the computer isn't set to be up and fully operational until 2012.
The Fujitsu K is projected to be capable of 10 petaflops. Right now, the fastest supercomputer in the world is Cray's Jaguar system at Oak Ridge National Laboratory with 1.75 petaflops.
(Source: Cnet.)
Things like discovering how the universe works and curing cancer
Both of which I am ok with
I am waiting for the first Ass to say "Not more than a GTX 480!"....
Things like discovering how the universe works and curing cancer
Both of which I am ok with
I am waiting for the first Ass to say "Not more than a GTX 480!"....
The Jaguar only beat the IBM roadrunner by .71 petaflop's and that was only after a CPU upgrade.
Figuring out how they will pay for all that power draw?
Or maybe trying to figure out how they'll pay for the Fujitsu K? ;-)
This might be true, except every conversation about it is going to have to include:
"It doesn't have as much power as K. K? You don't know K? You know, the terribly named non-descriptive title of the Japanese supercomputer."
Very efficient.
computing
these arent Intel or even AMD chips, they SPARCs which are designed to be good at number crunching, architecturally not too dissimilar to the way GPGPU works in fact
For calculating the ultimate answer to life the universe and everything
You do know a petaflop is a quadrillion computations per second. That's some pretty beefy performance if you ask me.