sand-eel
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Well its so fast it will do 10 petaflops
Which is about 3600000000000000 calculations a second
My laptop is 2.2Ghz, that 10petaflop computer apparently will be....
600000000Ghz crazy fucking crazy.
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Cosmo
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Ive checked, and this is def geek day material.
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Nath
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Geek Day isnt Geek enough for this shiz.
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John
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Is this the one Fujitsu are building?
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sand-eel
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SGI and Intel teamed up.
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deano87
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All hampered by a fucked up internet system in this country
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sand-eel
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Korea of all places have the best.
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John
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What one in Korea?
Roadrunner in America is currently the fastest.
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sand-eel
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I meant the internet system.
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Cosmo
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quote: Originally posted by John
What one in Korea?
Roadrunner in America is currently the fastest.
True, and if the one above actually happens it'll be nearly 10x as fast!
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MarkSport
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/\ which means facebook may work on that computer with no mistakes
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M2RTY
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thing is,
Ive used PCs for 19 years and as they get faster the OS is loaded with more crap and actually seems slower over time lol
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Cosmo
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quote: Originally posted by M2RTY
thing is,
Ive used PCs for 19 years and as they get faster the OS is loaded with more crap and actually seems slower over time lol
Yeah I dont think it'll be running Vista or anything like that....
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Leighton
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Top500.org
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mwg
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and whats going to be used for?
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Cosmo
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quote: Originally posted by mwg
and whats going to be used for?
Facebook, Twitter and CS.
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mwg
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So not for taking over the world then
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Cosmo
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If I told you Id have to kill you.
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quote: Originally posted by mwg
and whats going to be used for?
Predicting the weather, cracking algo's, grid computing for various projects.
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oceansoul
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..will it have solataire?
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A1EX
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3d rendered porn aswell maybe
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sand-eel
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It will be human brain power when finished, obviously not calculations per second
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sand-eel
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I'm talking shit, human brain is 1000 petaflops and it is calculations per second because of all the stuff it does all the time that we don't notice, not calculating 2+6 in our head etc.
EDIT - no it is 10 petaflops, just one site talking shit.
[Edited on 08-09-2009 by sand-eel]
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