BOINC Exceeds 2 Petaflop/s Barrier

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Posted by kdawson on Tuesday July 14, 2009 @03:06PM from the faster-faster-for-science dept.

Myrrh writes "Though an official announcement has not yet been made, it would appear that the BOINC project as a whole has exceeded two petaflop/s performance. The top page features this legend: '24-hour average: 2,793.53 TeraFLOPS.' According to last month's Top500 list of supercomputers, BOINC's performance is now beating that of the fastest supercomputer, RoadRunner, by more than a factor of two (with the caveat that BOINC has not been benchmarked on Linpack)."

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Finally! (Score:5, Funny)

by morgan_greywolf ( 835522 ) writes: on Tuesday July 14, 2009 @03:08PM (#28694723) Homepage Journal

BOINC finally has enough computing power to handle Vista Ultimate and a few applications!

Missed opportunity (Score:5, Funny)

by DoofusOfDeath ( 636671 ) writes: on Tuesday July 14, 2009 @03:08PM (#28694725)

We could make T-shirts saying "Computer scientists BOINC faster", but I not sure that sends the right message.

That'll do Bionic (Score:3, Funny)

by gubers33 ( 1302099 ) writes: on Tuesday July 14, 2009 @03:09PM (#28694735)

That'll do

Re:Emacs.... (Score:3, Funny)

by XPeter ( 1429763 ) * writes: on Tuesday July 14, 2009 @03:11PM (#28694755) Homepage

?? The article is clearly talking about super computers not operating systems, silly.

Re:Missed opportunity (Score:3, Funny)

by morgan_greywolf ( 835522 ) writes: on Tuesday July 14, 2009 @03:13PM (#28694789) Homepage Journal

BOINCing computer scientists: now petaphiles x2!

Re:I wonder what BOINC's contribution to CO2 outpu (Score:5, Funny)

by wjh31 ( 1372867 ) writes: on Tuesday July 14, 2009 @03:21PM (#28694875) Homepage

half a million computers, times a couple of hundred watts would gives ~10MW which is about 4 blue whales or 3 diesel locomotives http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orders_of_magnitude_(power)#megawatt_.28106_watts.29 [wikipedia.org]

Re:Finally! (Score:5, Funny)

by basementman ( 1475159 ) writes: on Tuesday July 14, 2009 @03:27PM (#28694939) Homepage

I think you meant Ubuntu with Firefox playing a flash video.

Re:I wonder what BOINC's contribution to CO2 outpu (Score:5, Funny)

by Red Flayer ( 890720 ) writes: on Tuesday July 14, 2009 @03:31PM (#28694975) Journal

That's ridiculous, why would you use ~4 BW or ~3 DLs when you could use 1 POOT (Power Output Of Togo). BOINC uses about 1 POOT.

Surely we can reduce the inefficiency, and POOT less.

Why are we using a distributed system of energy-inefficient comPOOTers?

The big question is, how many cow farts would we need to harvest to produce one POOT of energy?

Re:Finally! (Score:5, Funny)

by ijakings ( 982830 ) writes: on Tuesday July 14, 2009 @03:44PM (#28695109)

I think you mean OSX with smug set to maximum.

Re:I wonder what BOINC's contribution to CO2 outpu (Score:3, Funny)

by Em Emalb ( 452530 ) writes: <ememalb.gmail@com> on Tuesday July 14, 2009 @03:53PM (#28695221) Homepage Journal

Haven't you heard? The POOT is out as a measure of energy. People in the know(TM) these days are using the FART. (Free African Republic of Tonga)
I understand that Taco Bell has chosen to support the FART as well. Something to consider. The POOT's reign has come to an end. Long live the FART.

Re:Missed opportunity (Score:2, Funny)

by modecx ( 130548 ) writes: on Tuesday July 14, 2009 @04:51PM (#28696107)

Most women who've slept with computer scientists would agree that they are pretty fast ;)
On the plus side, they know how to press the right buttons. Or, so I'm told.

Wait a minute... (Score:4, Funny)

by Sensible Clod ( 771142 ) writes: on Tuesday July 14, 2009 @05:52PM (#28696875) Homepage

Scientific progress goes BOINC?

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Finally! (Score:5, Funny)

Missed opportunity (Score:5, Funny)

That'll do Bionic (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Emacs.... (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Missed opportunity (Score:3, Funny)

Re:I wonder what BOINC's contribution to CO2 outpu (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Finally! (Score:5, Funny)

Re:I wonder what BOINC's contribution to CO2 outpu (Score:5, Funny)

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Wait a minute... (Score:4, Funny)

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