NNSA Supercomputer Breaks Computing Record

NNSA Supercomputer Breaks Computing Record 266

Posted by timothy on Sunday April 03, 2005 @01:16PM from the we're-simulating-a-stockpile dept.

Lecutis writes "National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Administrator Linton F. Brooks announced that on March 23, 2005, a supercomputer developed through the Advanced Simulation and Computing program for NNSAs Stockpile Stewardship efforts has performed 135.3 trillion floating point operations per second (teraFLOP/s) on the industry standard LINPACK benchmark, making it the fastest supercomputer in the world."

NNSA Supercomputer Breaks Computing Record

This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted.

Search 266 Comments Log In/Create an Account

Comments Filter:

Re:Neat (Score:3, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Sunday April 03, 2005 @01:22PM (#12127042)

I think they were waiting for final specs on Doom3.

imagine (Score:3, Funny)

by dario_moreno ( 263767 ) writes: on Sunday April 03, 2005 @01:23PM (#12127052) Journal

a Beowulf cluster of these !

Wow! (Score:5, Funny)

by FlyByPC ( 841016 ) writes: on Sunday April 03, 2005 @01:23PM (#12127054) Homepage

Just imagine running Fractint on this puppy!

Steroids (Score:4, Funny)

by tiktok ( 147569 ) writes: on Sunday April 03, 2005 @01:23PM (#12127056) Homepage

There was another machine that had already beaten that record, but unfortunately failed a diagnostic test for banned substances...

It's so fast... (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Sunday April 03, 2005 @01:24PM (#12127062)

that it almost meets the minimum requirements for Longhorn.

Wow. (Score:2, Funny)

by TsukasaZero ( 850187 ) writes: on Sunday April 03, 2005 @01:29PM (#12127093)

Slap an X850 in there and you've got some serious Doom 3 action.

Yeah, but... (Score:3, Funny)

by Black Jack Hyde ( 2374 ) writes: on Sunday April 03, 2005 @01:34PM (#12127129)

...will it run NetHack [nethack.org]?

Re:Human Intelligence? (Score:2, Funny)

by trippy ( 94675 ) writes: on Sunday April 03, 2005 @03:16PM (#12127698)

Maybe so, but this thing is HUGE compared to Data. If Data were as large as this, the Enterprise would need a trailer to lug around his fat ass.

135.3 trillion floating point operations per seco (Score:4, Funny)

by alex4u2nv ( 869827 ) writes: on Sunday April 03, 2005 @03:35PM (#12127801) Homepage

135.3 trillion floating point operations per second

Does this mean we can't slashdot it?

You of course know what this means. (Score:3, Funny)

by Allnighterking ( 74212 ) writes: on Sunday April 03, 2005 @03:36PM (#12127811) Homepage

You can now open a Mozilla session in under a minute!

Re:and its only half the machine too! (Score:4, Funny)

by Profane MuthaFucka ( 574406 ) writes: <busheatskok@gmail.com> on Sunday April 03, 2005 @04:55PM (#12128320) Homepage Journal

Easy cowboy, before you start proclaiming that we could wipe out all the leadership of an arbitrary country, let's just get Osama first. OK?

You Gotta Love This... (Score:3, Funny)

by Nom du Keyboard ( 633989 ) writes: on Sunday April 03, 2005 @07:08PM (#12129103)

Scientists at LLNL for the first time have performed 16-million-atom molecular dynamics simulations with the highest accuracy inter-atomic potentials necessary to resolve the key physical effects to successfully model pressure induced rapid resolidification in Tantalum.
You just gotta love a sentence like that!

There may be more comments in this discussion. Without JavaScript enabled, you might want to turn on Classic Discussion System in your preferences instead.

NNSA Supercomputer Breaks Computing Record 266

NNSA Supercomputer Breaks Computing Record More Login

NNSA Supercomputer Breaks Computing Record

Re:Neat (Score:3, Funny)

imagine (Score:3, Funny)

Wow! (Score:5, Funny)

Steroids (Score:4, Funny)

It's so fast... (Score:1, Funny)

Wow. (Score:2, Funny)

Yeah, but... (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Human Intelligence? (Score:2, Funny)

135.3 trillion floating point operations per seco (Score:4, Funny)

You of course know what this means. (Score:3, Funny)

Re:and its only half the machine too! (Score:4, Funny)

You Gotta Love This... (Score:3, Funny)

Related Links Top of the: day, week, month.

Slashdot Top Deals

Slashdot