K Computer Makes Your Gaming Rig Look Lazy

[Kargathia]

... and the answer to your question is: 42.

 

[Coffinshaker]

very nice hardware... but uh... what exactly do they need that much processing power for anyways?

 

[Metal Brother]

As a country, Japan is known primarily for three things: animated characters with eyes that would make a baby deer jealous, inventive culinary applications for raw fish, and an overriding obsession with the latest and greatest technology.

Seriously?

SERIOUSLY??

You're listing the things for which Japan is known, and schoolgirl uniforms doesn't make the short list? Did you even do ANY research for this article?

;-)

On topic, I like this picture better:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/20/top_500_supers_june_2011/

 

[noolli]

Haven't they heard of water cooling or Noctua?

They wouldn't use cooling like that the amount of water needed would be a lot and with 68,000 CPUs they likelihood of 1 going wrong would be high and dangerous. But those types of cooling require more space than what is available in those server racks and so larger fans which go over many racks are used, server room cooling is never quiet and with a lot of cooling fans the noise will add up.

 

[thethain]

What do they use such supercomputers for anyway? Mining Bitcoins? The SETI project? Protein Folding problems? Or simply calculating pi?

check out TOP500 to see applications that Supercomputers are running and their hardware. Some are classified.

http://www.top500.org/

So I went to the site. Apparently over half of the proccessing power of the top500 super computers is being used for "Research" and "Not Specified".

I guess I was wishing for something a little more detailed. Like knowing if they are protein folding or the like.

 

[ResonanceSD]

What do they use such supercomputers for anyway? Mining Bitcoins? The SETI project? Protein Folding problems? Or simply calculating pi?

check out TOP500 to see applications that Supercomputers are running and their hardware. Some are classified.

http://www.top500.org/

So I went to the site. Apparently over half of the proccessing power of the top500 super computers is being used for "Research" and "Not Specified".

I guess I was wishing for something a little more detailed. Like knowing if they are protein folding or the like.

Probably stuff a little more complicated than that. Look them up on wikipedia individually and each supercomputer's page should tell you.

 

[Hamish Durie]

and yet it still can't play crysis

 

[Ad-Man-Gamer]

Now install GLaDOS 3.11!

 

[Jamous]

That's very diplomatic, but I think we can all see where Japan is going with this whole "K computer" project. I mean, who did you expect would pilot that life-sized Gundam they built [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/99302-Japans-Life-Sized-Gundam-Returns-With-Active-Weaponry]? Whiny teenagers?

Oh god. It all makes sense now; they're building the Gundam's Mind! The supercomputer will run the Gundam from afar as it wreaks havoc down upon our puny mortal realm and nobody shall be able to stop it! We're doomed! We're all doomed! Now; where's my Robot Apocalypse Survival Guide?

 

[EternalFacepalm]

It runs Linux. So no, it can't run Crysis.

Still, I'd like to know what kind of research they actually perform with it.
However, something tells me it'll involve portals. And deadly neurotoxin, obviously.

 

[darthmason0719]

That's nice and all but can it run Crysis?

 

[Racecarlock]

"In layman's terms, that would be 8.162 quadrillion floating point operations per second."

uhm...anyone care to put that in actual Laymans terms? I mean, if you don't expect the layman to know what a petaflop is do you really expect them to know what a floating point operation is?

It means it can run TWO copies of half life 2 AT ONCE and STILL have the memory left over for a game of solitaire whilst they load.

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/253824

 

[CounterReproductive]

They will rent the computational space to China so it can run all its internet gold farming bots in one place

 

[orangeapples]

I always thought Skynet was to be based in America... meh, once its operating for like a week, Lulzsec will have it cracked.

 

[CODER]

They will rent the computational space to China so it can run all its internet gold farming bots in one place

this.
this made me laugh.

 

[1337mokro]

Of course K isn't done yet. They still need to add an S and a Y and change it's domain name from .jp to .net.

 

[SilentHunter7]

That's very diplomatic, but I think we can all see where Japan is going with this whole "K computer" project. I mean, who did you expect would pilot that life-sized Gundam they built? Whiny teenagers?

Oh God. They've developed the Zero System.

 

[Socken]

£10 says it still can't run Crysis on ultra settings and chugs when things get busy!

I'm not saying it ain't a darn impressive machine. But Crysis is trial by fire for a computer.

If you're gonna steal Yahtzee's jokes, at least word them differently.
Not trying to be an ass or anything but damn. Word for word man.

OT: What would really interest me though is how many petaflops a common PC can manage. Because as it stands this article tells me absolutely nothing.

 

[TimeLord]

£10 says it still can't run Crysis on ultra settings and chugs when things get busy!

I'm not saying it ain't a darn impressive machine. But Crysis is trial by fire for a computer.

If you're gonna steal Yahtzee's jokes, at least word them differently.
Not trying to be an ass or anything but damn. Word for word man.

OT: What would really interest me though is how many petaflops a common PC can manage. Because as it stands this article tells me absolutely nothing.

I wasn't "stealing" anything. It was quite obvious it was a Yahtzee joke. I don't have to put a disclaimer on every post, it's not like I'm going get sued by anyone.

Unless you are planning on suing me...

Spoiler

 

[cybran]

I want..

I need something to play skyrim and battlefield 3 at the same time with.