IBM Blue Gene supercomputer

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[chipperrox]

Read that today
and my response is:
think i found my new computer...

[WaWaWang]

wow a petaflop. never heard that before. and linux very interesting.

[isus]

petaflop... its the next step up from a gigaflop... apple's g4 cpu did the first gigaflop (for consumers) so apparently we have reached 1000x the power of the first generation g4 (400mhz?)

or wait... is it gigaflop, teraflop, petaflop? hmm... that would be one million times more powerful. wow. lol.

anywho, sounds good. why we need it? unknown. sign it up for seti@home and folding and all those others, and then watch that comp do a workload every 10 seconds.

[g l i t c h]

ok a petaflop but still they are going to be networked? Isn't that going to be the bottle neck?

[Mitsugi]

Originally posted by isus
petaflop... its the next step up from a gigaflop... apple's g4 cpu did the first gigaflop (for consumers) so apparently we have reached 1000x the power of the first generation g4 (400mhz?)

or wait... is it gigaflop, teraflop, petaflop? hmm... that would be one million times more powerful. wow. lol.

anywho, sounds good. why we need it? unknown. sign it up for seti@home and folding and all those others, and then watch that comp do a workload every 10 seconds.
ya, it's FLOPS (http://search390.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid10_gci213966,00.html) -> megaflop (http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci212543,00.html)s -> gigaflop (http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci212195,00.html)s -> teraflop (http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci213119,00.html)s -> petaflop (http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci212778,00.html)s

[isus]

Originally posted by Mitsugi
ya, it's FLOPS (http://search390.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid10_gci213966,00.html) -> megaflop (http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci212543,00.html)s -> gigaflop (http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci212195,00.html)s -> teraflop (http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci213119,00.html)s -> petaflop (http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci212778,00.html)s

thanks mitsugi. i wanna know what apple/ibm's ppc990 will run like... those beasts will be at 8ghz by 2006... 64-bit, multi-core, maybe even dual cpu's... that'll be one fast bitch of a computer.

[ATLien]

Isus

What's your take on Apple's, possibly switching processors, from Motorola to an Pentium or AMD?

[Theinfamousone]

Wow, think of all the divx movies you could encode with that. It would take like 3.7 seconds to encode a whole DVD to Xvid.

LOL, seti@home.

When I'm a millionaire, I'll buy one of these.

[g l i t c h]

Originally posted by ATLien
Isus

What's your take on Apple's, possibly switching processors, from Motorola to an Pentium or AMD?

Actually that would be cool, I would use a Mac and then install XP.

[Theinfamousone]

I would use a PC, and install MacOS 11. LOL. Actually I don't know, probably not. Well, depends on which has more DRM involved.