Japanese supercomputer 'K' is world's fastest at 8.2 petaflops - Polidicks

[Release]A new Japanese supercomputer called "K" is being hailed as the world's fastest - three times more powerful than the previous holder of the title. K is built by the Japanese computer firm Fujitsu, based in Kobe's Riken Advanced Institute for Computational Science. It is capable of making 8.2 quadrillion (a quadrillion is 1 followed by 15 zeroes) calculations per second - or, in computer jargon, 8.2 petaflops. The previous fastest machine was the Chinese computer Tianhe-1A, which was clocked at 2.507 petaflops. The rankings for the world's fastest computers are kept by a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, one Jack Dongarra. He releases a six-monthly list detailing the top 500 machines, as determined by a their ability to run a standard mathematical equation. The new list is released today. K's performance is equivalent to one million linked desktop computers, according to Prof Dongarra, or more than its five closest competitors combined. It consists of 672 cabinets stuffed with circuit-boards, and its creators plan to increase that to 800 in the coming months. It uses enough energy to power nearly 10,000 homes and costs $10 million (£6.2 million) annually to run. “It’s a very impressive machine,” Prof Dongarra said. “It’s a lot more powerful than the other computers.” After K and Tianhe-1A, the third fastest computer is Jaguar, at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. The USA holds a further four of the top 10 slots, although four of the top five are Chinese or Japanese. This is the first Japanese machine to hold the title of fastest since 2004. According to The New York Times, the rankings change so rapidly that June 2008's fastest machine, at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, has dropped to 10th place. Supercomputers are used for various heavy-duty processing jobs, including climate modelling, earthquake simulations and stock-market predictions as well as nuclear research and weapons development.[/release] [url=http://www.zeitnews.org/engineering-and-computer-science-research/japanese-supercomputer-k-is-worlds-fastest.html]Source[/url] :10bux: it will be used to render freaky Japanese porn (should i keep using release tags or are quote tags preferred. rate useful for release and optimistic for quotes)

Ah, maybe this will help the development of that turd burger.

petaflops sounds hilarious.

[QUOTE=redBadger;30620432]petaflops sounds hilarious.[/QUOTE] its only one letter away from pedo flops oh god the mental images why did i post this. curse you dirty mind. edit: i deserve what i get

There was a time when ENIAC was called a supercomputer. One day we'll be playing Battlefield Five: Modern Space Combat on one of these.

And yet all this stuff won't be be practical for years. They can make it but the have to do alot of R&D.

[QUOTE=Aide;30620518]And yet all this stuff won't be be practical for years. They can make it but the have to do alot of R&D.[/QUOTE] what do you mean exactly

The machines are here. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpwWYOE3Y9o[/media]

[QUOTE=ItsGary;30620619]The machines are here. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpwWYOE3Y9o[/media][/QUOTE] Yeah except they look like this: [img]http://fastcache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2007/09/supercomputer.jpg[/img]

[QUOTE=Aide;30620518]And yet all this stuff won't be be practical for years. They can make it but the have to do alot of R&D.[/QUOTE] They said the same thing about ENIAC.

So does anyone know what they have in mind for how to use it?

Apparently they're to be used for farming bitcoins.

Well, still though, nowhere even near a human brain, as i've heard, every single micro processor on the planet combined, adds up to the capacity of a single human brain.

[QUOTE=zombini;30621161]Well, still though, nowhere even near a human brain, as i've heard, every single micro processor on the planet combined, adds up to the capacity of a single human brain.[/QUOTE] A human brain is not comparable with a processor; the former usually takes several seconds before completing a simple calculation whereas a processor can calculate complex equations in a fraction of a second.

Play Minecraft.

[QUOTE=Mattk50;30620479]its only one letter away from pedo flops oh god the mental images why did i post this. curse you dirty mind.[/QUOTE] Thats two. You can't count.

Still can't play crisis

K, so?

[QUOTE]It consists of 672 cabinets stuffed with circuit-boards, and its creators plan to increase that to 800 in the coming months. It uses enough energy to power nearly 10,000 homes and costs $10 million (£6.2 million) annually to run[/QUOTE] What the hell. I hope they do useful shit with this and not just run it to see how many calculations it can do. Article doesn't say what the fuck the computer is used for, so I'm not sure what to think. Maybe it's for research on developing machines....I don't know.

That's a really creative name.

Well, I heard it takes something like 1e21 calculations per second to simulate every chemical change in the brain (effectively simulate the brain), but that number could be bullshit.

[QUOTE=Mechwarrior;30620404]Ah, maybe this will help the development of that turd burger.[/QUOTE] I laughed harder than what I should have

[QUOTE=Redcow17;30620667]Yeah except they look like this: [img]http://fastcache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2007/09/supercomputer.jpg[/img][/QUOTE] What ever happened to machine rooms that didn't look like an empty fucking warehouse? [img]http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4102/4886033743_a48d2d2916.jpg[/img] [img]http://www.sciencephoto.com/image/349945/large/T4500068-View_of_a_mainframe_computer_room-SPL.jpg[/img] Shit's boring when you get a massive room filled with featureless racks and a ceiling that makes you think you are really in an air conditioned gym. [quote][img_thumb]http://www.fz-juelich.de/portal/lw_resource/datapool/__pages/pdp_1681/JUROPA_82.JPG[/img_thumb] [img]http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2759/4315724511_8fe6c0f8fa.jpg[/img][/quote]

they made this computer to calculate how to make an even better computer

[QUOTE=Redcow17;30620667]Yeah except they look like this: [img]http://fastcache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2007/09/supercomputer.jpg[/img][/QUOTE] GW? It can't be!

Maybe so, but can it love?

[QUOTE=MIPS;30624396]What ever happened to machine rooms that didn't look like an empty fucking warehouse? Shit's boring when you get a massive room filled with featureless racks and a ceiling that makes you think you are really in an air conditioned gym.[/QUOTE] I imagine they get very hot, so you probably want air-conditioning. [editline]22nd June 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=NO ONE;30624060]What the hell. I hope they do useful shit with this and not just run it to see how many calculations it can do. Article doesn't say what the fuck the computer is used for, so I'm not sure what to think. Maybe it's for research on developing machines....I don't know.[/QUOTE] Well if they're still adding shit they're probably just running a lot of test calculations through it.

[QUOTE=zombini;30621161]Well, still though, nowhere even near a human brain, as i've heard, every single micro processor on the planet combined, adds up to the capacity of a single human brain.[/QUOTE] How many calculations can you do per second in your head? Because this one can do 8,200,000,000,000,000 with 64-bit precision per second.

Impressive development. They quadrupled the last record calculation speed. I bet we're reaching an exaflop within this decade.

[QUOTE=Redcow17;30620667]Yeah except they look like this: [img]http://fastcache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/4/2007/09/supercomputer.jpg[/img][/QUOTE] Do those red lines serve a purpose or is it just to make it look ricer?