[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?

[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

[def4d]

i didnt understand, but its for Playstation 3 gaming platform calculations

[michaelplogue]

Speaking of PS3's......

http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/news/20 ... ercomputer

[def4d]

amazing

[-Adrian]

Speaking of PS3's......

http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/news/20 ... ercomputer

Very nice!

[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?

[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!)

[Leonardo]

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...