Top 500 Supercomputer List Released

sundling writes "The heavily anticipated Top 500 Supercomputer list has been released. There is a Sevenfold increase in AMD Opteron processors on the list. Two sections of an IBM prototype took spots in the top 10 and the famous Apple cluster didn't make the list, because it was out of service for hardware upgrades. When complete, the new IBM cluster is sure to take the top spot from the Earth Simulator."

Why the fuss about Earth Simulator?

[Moblaster]

IBM's new supercomputer will calculate "42" before the Japanese. America can feel good again.

Evidently....

[dkone]

they are not running their site on one of the top 500.

Oh dear

[Killjoy_NL]

Does nobody see what is about to happen?
Those computers will read that list and know which computers to connect to, to take over the world!!

Doesn't anyone read comics anymore ??
May $DEITY have mercy on us all.

Imagine a...

[garethwi]

...oh forget it.

Sevenfold Increase in Opterons

[Moblaster]

That's the old trick about multiplying by zero, right?

How do they measure?

[-noefordeg-]

So how do they measure?

The link didn't work right now so I'll make a guess...

Test must at least include Q3, UT-2004 and 3DMark03, but since these are pretty powerful computers I guess they also use some sort of advanced custom built MineSweeper with like 10.000x10.000 grid playing field or something wild crazy stuff like that.
Maybe 400+ pages Word documents?
Final test is probably Halo for pc. Any fps score above 20 will result in a spot > 100 on the list.

Re:How do they measure?

[G-funk]

Above 20fps? In pc halo? Man what are you smoking, apart from the magic smoke? It's not like they're all linked up into some giant uber-cluster!

Not comics... the Forbin Project

[Faust7]

Does nobody see what is about to happen?
Those computers will read that list and know which computers to connect to, to take over the world!!

WARN

THERE IS ANOTHER SYSTEM

I hope they're not using...

[Armchair Dissident]

"The Thunder system, based on 4,096 Intel Corp. Itanium 2 processors, at LLNL recorded a maximum performance of 20T flops"

I hope they're not using Linux. That's a LOT of SCO licenses...

My machine

[swapsn]

I see my machine has not made it into the list. Ah well. Maybe next year...

Unemployment Rate Goes Down

[Moblaster]

In other news, Bush administration officials have created 1.2 million new jobs by hiring unemployed Americans to close pop-ups windows for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, whose new supercomputer will be used to study nuclear bombs, the weather, and the dynamics of carpal tunnel syndrome.

Sheesh

[HarveyBirdman]

the famous Apple cluster didn't make the list, because it was out of service for hardware upgrades

:-\

In other news, Car & Driver released their list of top ten coolest cars. The new Ford GT was not included because Bob had it in the garage for an oil change.

Re:Google cluster?

[Anonymous Coward]

I don't think that you could use google's cluster to compute 42

Oh yeah? ;^) [google.co.uk]