World's Fastest Supercomputer To Be Built At ORNL

Homey R writes "As I'll be joining the staff there in a few months, I'm very excited to see that Oak Ridge National Lab has won a competition within the DOE's Office of Science to build the world's fastest supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Lab in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. It will be based on the promising Cray X1 vector architecture. Unlike many of the other DOE machines that have at some point occupied #1 on the Top 500 supercomputer list, this machine will be dedicated exclusively to non-classified scientific research (i.e., not bombs)." Cowards Anonymous adds that the system "will be funded over two years by federal grants totaling $50 million. The project involves private companies like Cray, IBM, and SGI, and when complete it will be capable of sustaining 50 trillion calculations per second."

Wow...

[nother_nix_hacker]

The project involves private companies like Cray, IBM, and SGI, and when complete it will be capable of sustaining 50 trillion calculations per second."

Outlook with no slowdown!

Re:50 trillion

[Roger Keith Barrett]

Build me a real time simulation of Morgan Webb PLEASE!

Hmm

[LaserLyte]

> ...capable of sustaining 50 trillion calculations per second.

Hmm...I wonder if I could borrow it for a few days to give my dnet [distributed.net] stats a boost :D

Shamelessly plagerized

[Anonymous Coward]

Wow, 50 trillion calculations per second. Thats almost fast enough to finish an infinite loop in under ten hours.

It must be said:

[Recoil_42]

Imagine a beowulf cluster of those.

Re:Wow...

[FenwayFrank]

It's so fast, the blue screen shifts to red!

Doom III

[MrRuslan]

at an Impresive 67fps on this baby...

But the computer's record will be short-lived...

[BrentRJones]

...because a day later Palm users will massively interconnect to form the World Fastest Clustered Computer Environment. The OS? Linux, of course. .}

It's Longhorn compatible then ?

[Anonymous Coward]

or it certainly seems like it (reading the specs of the thing)

Re:Hmm

[scotch]

Will you be here all week?

Re:It must be said:

[stephenisu]

Wow, that's the first Beowulf cluster comment I would mod as interesting.

Re:3D torus topology

[PetoskeyGuy]

So each node is directly connected to six ajacent nodes.

Excellent. We can finally solve the Optimal Dungeon Theorem on hex tile games.

Re:Wow...

[Anonymous Coward]

Actually it went to plaid

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