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Scottie P
06-22-2005, 06:23 PM
If so, then you may make it to the Top 500 Super Computer list.
I saw this article (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/4111866.stm) and marvelled at the numbers - they are staggering: :eek:

Computer: The BlueGene/L
Location: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, University of California, USA
Position (in top 500 Super Computers): #1

Processing peak: 136.8 teraflops (10 to the 12th power or a trillion floating point operations per second)
By completion the machine will contain 65,536 processors.

I'd be happy with one good P4 at this point. :)

Info on Livermore can be found here: Livermore (http://www.llnl.gov/pao/news/news_releases/2005/NR-05-06-12.html)
Brandtrock
06-22-2005, 06:26 PM
By completion the machine will contain 65,536 processors.


But only 256 columns!:clap::rofl:
Scottie P
06-22-2005, 06:35 PM
LMAO!! We are thinking in the same line...I thought to myself, "65536...? That number is awefully familiar...? Haven't I seen that number before?"

So what is it - really - with that magic 65536 number anyway...?
Brandtrock
06-22-2005, 06:38 PM
All that damn Binary math I'm afraid.

1
2
4
8
16
32
64
128
256
512
1024
2048
4096
8192
16384
32768
65536

:banghead:
Jacob Hilderbrand
06-22-2005, 06:40 PM
2^16 power. 16 is also the base for Hex so maybe it has to do with the storing of data.

So what do you calculate with that much power? The human genome?
Scottie P
06-22-2005, 06:48 PM
Yeah, the genome...they're also talking hydrodynamic instability and a host of other really important stuff.
Brandtrock
06-22-2005, 06:49 PM
Yeah, the genome...they're also talking hydrodynamic instability and a host of other really important stuff.

Like how to keep KB entries from being deleted by The Wookie?
Ken Puls
06-22-2005, 10:18 PM
Like how to keep KB entries from being deleted by The Wookie?

ROTFLMAO!

Now THAT's funny! :rotlaugh:
sheeeng
06-23-2005, 01:02 AM
Good Article. But I don't have chance to use it..
shades
06-23-2005, 05:05 AM
So what do you calculate with that much power? The human genome?

Another use is to track nuclear weapon processes.:wot :yes
shades
06-23-2005, 05:06 AM
Also to be noted that 1,024 Macs with OS X still come in #14.

What's really amazing is that no computer on the list in 1997 would even break into the top 500 today!
Zack Barresse
06-23-2005, 02:35 PM
What's really amazing is that no computer on the list in 1997 would even break into the top 500 today!
Now THAT is amazing! We are most definitely in the technilogical age..