China boasts world's fastest supercomputer

[Bladexdsl]

can it run bioshock 3?

 

[chyyran]

Faster computers for faster propaganda

 

[shakirmoledina]

i bet this can be beaten by the time the 3ds comes out next year... i always though japan was better at tech but it seems china seem to be doing something other than reverse engineering

 

[cwstjdenobs]

Those that want a bit more tech with their supercomputer news
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/10/28/ch..._supercomputer/

Thanks for the link.

QUOTEBased on Xenon CPUs and tesla graphics chips (the models might change but CPU GPU hybrids are common enough in HPC nowadays) the most interesting part of it all is the custom interconnect (those new to this game read up on amdahl's law) for which there is no meaty data on at this point in time other than they are optical.

Apparently it's hybrid optical electric. But actually the most interesting thing I saw in there is about the new MIPS chip they are working on with x86 emulation built in. While I know that isn't new, a lot of AMD chips were(are?) based around the POWER core with an x86 "emulator", it's the first time I've heard of you being able to run native code in such a set up.

 

[.Chris]

Those that want a bit more tech with their supercomputer news
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/10/28/ch..._supercomputer/

Yes, thanks for that link, might update the main article.

 

[RKz]

so many wires...

 

[8BitWalugi]

Jesus... I wonder how fast it'll take for it to find the DSi Common Key...

 

[cwstjdenobs]

Jesus... I wonder how fast it'll take for it to find the DSi Common Key...

Not very fast probably, this is built for floating point performance. Some of the slower supercomputers that don't use gpu's would probably be much more suited to that sort of work. Or a big fuck off cluster or distributed computing effort.

 

[prowler]

That picture in the OP is certainly not going to get a OK from the health and safety officers

Wonder if it's running vista? (:
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