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About LinkBacksRead more.1.6 million cores and 1.6 petabytes of memory help the Sequoia chug along.
Read more.1.6 million cores and 1.6 petabytes of memory help the Sequoia chug along.
Will it run Crysis?
Salazaar : <Touching wood as I write this...>
There must be a typo because 372/500 is not 47.5% :S ("However 372 of the top 500 supercomputers do use Intel processors (47.5 per cent)")
So, if we scaled that up linearly to an exaflop, we'd be using 484MW of power.
Or, to put it another way, it'd cost nearly $500M a year to run.
So you can see why the HPC community has a target of exaflop in 20MW.
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7.9 GW of power as it stands !!!
Me wonders where they are obtaining that from ?
Cheers, David
MW, not GW
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struggles on some of the later levels...Originally Posted by Platinum
Old puter - still good enuff till I save some pennies!
Platinum (18-06-2012)
"Compared to the leading machine on the first supercomputer chart compiled in 1993 (the Thinking Machines CM-5/1024) the Sequoia is an incredible 273,930 times faster."
So much for Moore's Law...
Re: News - IBM regain fastest supercomputer crown
Do those Power chips share any kinship with the PowerPc of old? I still remember the amusing advertising of 'Performance Optimisation With Enhanced RISC' starring Hagar the Horrible (in Byte magazine IIRC) *sigh*
Wonder why they couldn't compete in the consumer/business market (eg with Apple, before they forsook them for Intel)? Or was it all Motorola's fault...?
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Valar Morghulis
Moore's law was right.
Yes, indeed they do. Cell has some elements of PowerPC in it too.
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Pleiades (18-06-2012)
7.9GW is 12% of the enire UK needs of power per day.... think its MW
Yes, they're direct descendants of those and cousins/brothers of the Power7 chips in IBM's current product lines. If you're bored check out https://www.power.org/events/PowerWe..._Dr._Luigi.pdf
And I wouldn't say that they couldn't compete in the consumer market, remember the Cell processor in the PS3 has a Power processor core, and the "Broadway" process that drives the Wii is a Power processor. Oh and IBM does very nicely in the business market with Power-based systems, plus the processors are widely used in embedded applications, like printers.Wonder why they couldn't compete in the consumer/business market (eg with Apple, before they forsook them for Intel)? Or was it all Motorola's fault...?
Nah, because the Sequoia runs ... Linux
Career status: still enjoying my new career in DevOps, but it's keeping me busy...
Pleiades (18-06-2012)
...Meh. (acting cool but actually screaming in my head)
Can't wait until one of these PCs draws 1.21 Gigawatts...
Actually...Nah, because the Sequoia runs ... Linux
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