"Intrepid" Supercomputer Fastest In the World 122
Stony Stevenson writes "The US Department of Energy's (DoE) high performance computing system is now the fastest supercomputer in the world for open science, according to the Top 500 list of the world's fastest computers.
The list was announced this week during the International Supercomputing Conference in Dresden, Germany.
IBM's Blue Gene/P, known as 'Intrepid,' is located at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility and is also ranked third fastest overall.
The supercomputer has a peak performance of 557 teraflops and achieved a speed of 450.3 teraflops on the Linpack application used to measure speed for the Top 500 rankings. According to the list, 74.8 percent of the world's supercomputers (some 374 systems) use Intel processors, a rise of 4 percent in six months. This represents the biggest slice of the supercomputer cake for the firm ever."
So ... let met be the first to ask ... (Score:5, Funny)
Linpack? So does it run Linux? (Score:3, Funny)
Apparently, not necessarily. [netlib.org] It's just some Fortran routines.
So much for that joke.
Re:So ... let met be the first to ask ... (Score:5, Funny)
Sure it will.
As long as you don't run any programs.
Re:what? where? (Score:4, Funny)
I'm more concerned about A, C, G and T.
Unclassified speed (Score:1, Funny)
And that's the unclassified speed. Just imagine how fast it can really go! Just like the SR-71!
Re:So ... let met be the first to ask ... (Score:2, Funny)
Supercomputer (Score:5, Funny)
George Broussard says that when the next generation of this machine reaches the desktop, Duke Nukem 4ever will be released. "Really", he said, "The game's been finished for over five years now. We're just waiting for a powerful enough computer to play it on."
Sources say that besides computitng power, DNF is waiting for the holographic display. The The US Department of Energy's (DoE) high performance computing system lacks a holographic display.
Gamers were reportedly disappointed in the news, although most said the price of the DoE's new computer wouldn't faze them. "After all" one said, "you have to have a decent machine to play any modern game!"
Re:what? where? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:So ... let met be the first to ask ... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Cliche (Score:4, Funny)
gDefine: Intrepid [google.com]
Re:what? where? (Score:3, Funny)
This raises another question: how much porn can fit into one DNA molecule?
And should we store it in female DNA, just to be on the safe side?
Re:Linpack? So does it run Linux? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Cliche (Score:3, Funny)
Intrepid can refer to: [wikipedia.org]
Re:So ... let met be the first to ask ... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Booooring (Score:3, Funny)