China Overtakes U.S. with World's Fastest Supercomputer

[TheEvilCheese]

I thought to myself after reading the headline "I hope there's a Hitchhiker's Guide reference"
Complete Win.

But this isn't so important really, I'm pretty sure i'm not the first person to point out that Folding@Home is already ahead of this computer and that's only a small number of people (0.5m).

(EDIT)
Hell yes. Comment #42.

 

[Vaccine]

Why the hell is this a smart use of money, what possible use would this serve? it feels like amazing case of overkill.

 

[Dioxide20]

Pssh probably still wont be able to run crysis 3 on max settings.

Probably couldn't run the original Crysis at more than 50fps. God that game was unoptimized...

 

[Plurralbles]

so they had more money to build a computer with the latest stuff?
Big. Fcking. Whoop. If I had millions of dollars to spend I'd simply buy both computers and combine them into one and place them in switzerland.

Everybody happy: )

 

[Disaster Button]

...So what does it actually do except spend all day computing pi?

 

[zfactor]

Ok, it's one thing for the US to be beaten by Japan or maybe Korea in this department, but CHINA!? SERIOUSLY!? Fuck that, we need to make a new megacomputer

2.507 petaflops

That is a hilarious unit

It is a hilarious unit...

It is not very impressive because all they did was network a bizillion chips together, anyone with enough time and money can do that.

Anyway, I have 56.87928 petaflop computer in my basement (it runs Crysis on "high" and gets 55~65 fps...) so why is this one so great?

 

[Anarchemitis]

Crysis joke incoming
T - 10 (posts)

Yer but can crysis warhead at maximum on a 10,000 by 6000 resolution ?

A computer like this you'd think would be able to render games that looked as good as a Pixar movie real-time, but they can't.
A signal could not be able to respond at a fast enough rate to a single monitor to provide steady output of 30fps (or more) because the signal would have to travel so far through so many circuits.

Even if the monitor was subdivided into quadrants which computer blocks were individually assigned to, it still would not get a very good refresh rate. And no game exists that would be compatible. Architecture for 8 cel processors is hard enough, imagine writing code for 14,000 CPUs.

 

[Vykrel]

cut it out, China! it's not funny!... you're scaring us.

 

[murphy7801]

Yer but can crysis warhead at maximum on a 10,000 by 6000 resolution ?

 

[Arehexes]

It's sad since we never had anyone to compete with we never really pushed our tech as much. Now China over took us, maybe this will spark some passion to build a better computer.

 

[esperandote]

yet, freedom of speech...

 

[Hister]

off topic but I wonder how much energy this thing uses a day, my PC strong enough to notice the expence in my electric bill, I cant imagine how much this uses.

 

[Firetaffer]

That's good and all, but will it blend?

 

[DigitalSushi]

So how many flops do I get out of my PS3?, its a "random number" megaflop or something right? and whats the difference between a mega and a peta?

I can't stop thinking of PETA right now.

 

[Hgame]

Why the hell is this a smart use of money, what possible use would this serve? it feels like amazing case of overkill.

Its probably to try and predict the weather accurately.

 

[The_Puppy_Prince]

I wonder if they can run Crysis 2 on this thing...

i doubt its optimized for 7200 graphicscards
But yeah if a 256 mb ram ps3 can run it any pc will

Id honestly laugh if it couldnt xD

 

[cocoadog]

Instead of gigabytes I shall now use the term petaflops for it is magical.