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World’s biggest computer (?)
Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2007 5:37 pm
by def4d
http://www.our-picks.com/archives/2007/ ... -computer/
1 petaflop, 32.000 processors
The article is from January, so is it really the "biggest" ?
And what about the Google network computers power?
Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2007 6:25 pm
by Leonardo
poor of them.... I guess they don't know that Opterons are falling behind agaisnt Xeons
There are several issues to discuss such as the estimated $10 million in operating expenses just for electricity,
Just paying for the electricity to render something will melt your creditcard away
Posted: Tue Nov 20, 2007 7:21 pm
by def4d
i didnt understand, but its for Playstation 3 gaming platform calculations
Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2007 5:07 pm
by michaelplogue
Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2007 5:11 pm
by def4d
amazing
Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2007 7:49 pm
by -Adrian
Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2007 7:50 pm
by Bubbaloo
Probably just a marketing trick from Sony...
If these cell processors are so great, why haven't we seen them implemented in pc's?
Have we?
Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2007 8:04 pm
by def4d
http://www.top500.org/lists/2007/11#top10
http://www.top500.org/lists/2007/11/top100map
For what i red, Cell processor is too expensive, Sony is planning to use it on Audio/Video products for end 2007, and for the moment it's only used in supercalculators and big servers (and PS3 of course!)
Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2007 8:37 pm
by Leonardo
Bubbaloo wrote:Probably just a marketing trick from Sony...
If these cell processors are so great, why haven't we seen them implemented in pc's?
Have we?
too low on ram memory, most of our programs were not developed to take adavantage of the 7 extra cores...