lol nerds, etc...

[GONNAFISTYA]

16 petaflops and 1.6M cores is world's fastest

Every six months, Earth’s biggest supercomputers have a giant race to see which can lay claim to being the world’s fastest high-performance computing cluster.

In the latest Top 500 Supercomputer Sites list unveiled Monday morning, a newly assembled cluster built with IBM hardware at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) takes the top prize. Its speed? A whopping 16.32 petaflops, or 16 thousand trillion calculations per second. With 96 racks, 98,304 compute nodes, 1.6 million cores, and 1.6 petabytes of memory across 4,500 square feet, the IBM Blue Gene/Q system installed at LLNL overtakes the 10-petaflop, 705,000-core “K computer” in Japan's RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science.

Git yer porn here!!!

[mrd]

I read about some gnarly super computer the other day and it said they were wasting it doing shit like nuclear warhead ballistics tests or some such shit. What a waste of fucking power.

Anyway... 1.6M cores... I can has?

[Captain]

*in b4 Crysis joke*

[Transient]

I want to see how beefy they can make a computer that's not the size of a small building...

No shit they can keep outdoing one another, just add another room.

[seremtan]

pretty sure the chinese held the record before this, not japan

[plained]

thats alot of render power!