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01-18-2005, 08:30 PM
World's Fastest Supercomputer
Every person on Earth would need to perform 100,000 calculations a second in order to equal the power of IBM's Blue Gene, which posted a new record speed last November. Since 1976, when the original supercomputer, the Cray-1, debuted, supercomputer speed has increased by a factor of 450,000. When fully complete this June, Blue Gene's projected speed will be almost five million times that of the Cray-1.
Blue Gene's power-achieved by 131,072 IBM PowerPC 440 processors-is already twice as great as the previous record set just last May.
i wonder how that 1976 Cray-1 vs the todays best desktop pc?
Every person on Earth would need to perform 100,000 calculations a second in order to equal the power of IBM's Blue Gene, which posted a new record speed last November. Since 1976, when the original supercomputer, the Cray-1, debuted, supercomputer speed has increased by a factor of 450,000. When fully complete this June, Blue Gene's projected speed will be almost five million times that of the Cray-1.
Blue Gene's power-achieved by 131,072 IBM PowerPC 440 processors-is already twice as great as the previous record set just last May.
i wonder how that 1976 Cray-1 vs the todays best desktop pc?