Stephen Hawking Has a New Supercomputer
Physicist extraordinaire Stephen Hawking has been given a new supercomputer by his university.
"COSMOS" is installed at the University of Cambridge's Distributed Research utilizing Advanced Computing (DiRAC) facility and will be focused at computations that "advance our understanding of the origin and structure of our universe."
The system integrates 1,856 Xeon E5 Sandy Bridge processing cores as well as 14.5 TB globally shared memory. The university said that COSMOS will be upgraded at a later point in time with 31 Xeon Phi coprocessors. The SGI UV2000 cluster is already Europe's largest share memory system.
“We have made spectacular advances in cosmology and particle physics recently," Hawking said in a prepared statement. "Cosmology is now a precision science, so we need machines like COSMOS to reach out and touch the real universe, to investigate whether our mathematical models are correct."
Hawking noted that he hopes that "we will soon find an ultimate theory which, in principle, would enable us to predict everything in the Universe." Supercomputers like COSMOS are necessary to "describe how something as big and complex as the Universe evolves, let alone why humans behave the way they do!”
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jhansonxi we will soon find an ultimate theory which, in principle, would enable us to predict everything in the Universe.
Need some constraints on that. It's not going to predict irrational outcomes like politics, religion, and M$'s OS design decisions. -
zorky9 "The system integrates Stephen Hawking and 1,856 Xeon E5 Sandy Bridge processing cores as well as 14.5 TB globally shared memory. "Reply
Now that's a super computer. -
"we will soon find an ultimate theory which, in principle, would enable us to predict everything in the Universe."Reply
lol. -
memadmax Hawking is a looney toon stuck on pause.Reply
I especially love the left wing environmental liberal crap he spews about man made climate change(he prolly invented that term so as to not look stupid).... -
geeksinhere23 if they can make a keyboard attach to his brain would be a lot helpful to squash abit more juice out from that supercomputer. don't waste cpu power when 99.9% of all cpu is in idle mode while Stephen hawking is in typing.Reply -
Flameout memadmaxHawking is a looney toon stuck on pause.I especially love the left wing environmental liberal crap he spews about man made climate change(he prolly invented that term so as to not look stupid)....it's people like u that make the world worse for everyone elseReply -
house70 memadmaxHawking is a looney toon stuck on pause.I especially love the left wing environmental liberal crap he spews about man made climate change(he prolly invented that term so as to not look stupid)....That is sooooo low, I can't even begin to tell you how low is of you.Reply
Insulting a man who has achieved (in a state that would entitle the rest of us to just live off disability checks for the remainder of our puny lives) more than you would be able to in 10 lifetimes is just proof of what is wrong with mankind and indirectly proves him right once again. -
proxy711 geeksinhere23if they can make a keyboard attach to his brain would be a lot helpful to squash abit more juice out from that supercomputer. don't waste cpu power when 99.9% of all cpu is in idle mode while Stephen hawking is in typing.I kind of doubt he can type anymore. If my grandfather with ALS has a computer that reads his eye movements to type out sentences so he can communicate with the world, you would think Hawking would have a much more advanced and faster way of typing.Reply -
igot1forya All I can think of when I hear Stephen Hawking is his Mad Rap skillz :)Reply
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zn7-fVtT16k -
freggo If Hawking wins the Lottery..... 17 times in a row..... than we know he is on to something :-)Reply