Most powerful PC

[stanislav865]

Is there any rank of most powerful PC's in the world, could you send me a link? I know about futuremark.com, but I have to download and register their software. Maybe some personal pages? Thanks.

 

[Gnufsh]

I don't know about desktop sites, but here's the top 500 supercomputers in the world:
http://www.top500.org/

this month's list:
http://www.top500.org/lists/2003/11/

 

[alpha_gamer]

Check these out: Lieberman Computers

 

[mrgreenjeans]

Their 'gamer' model's comparable to an Alienware system. The pro looks awesome, but feel I could build one for less.

 

[Deathknight]

Check these out: Lieberman Computers

Isn't that the fake company?

 

[dguy6789]

it is not, as anandtech has a review on one of their systems.

 

[#18]

There are some processors + manufacturers I have never heard about.

What's this 5120 NEC on the top?

 

[Gnufsh]

5120 NEC CPUs (sx-5s but on a .15 micron process http://www.sw.nec.co.jp/hpc/sx5/product/) at 500MHz each, each capable of about 8GFLOPS.

http://www.top500.org/lists/2003/11/1/

 

[#18]

A Japanese processor? Better than all the Intel, AMD, Apple, IBM, etc.? It says "The world most powerful..blah blah blah" on the first site you linked.

I bet it's no good for gaming right?

 

[emericanchaos]

those processors are usually used in setups that need to crunch ALOT of numbers. since those CPU's were designed for that sole purpose i doubt they even support half the stuff games would recquire.

 

[shortbus_]

A Japanese processor? Better than all the Intel, AMD, Apple, IBM, etc.? It says "The world most powerful..blah blah blah" on the first site you linked.

I bet it's no good for gaming right?

i think its 5120 prcoessors not just 1 really fast one

 

[#18]

i think its 5120 prcoessors not just 1 really fast one

I know the super computer on the top list used tons of these processors, but I was talking about the performance of a single one. The link says "the world most powerful". It was talking about a single processor.

 

[shortbus_]

what is a gigaflop?

 

[OC Detective]

what is a gigaflop?

Its a massive failure at the box office - such as the Affleck/Jlo movie....
It is also 1 thousand million floating point operations per second.

 

[asj]

Its a massive failure at the box office - such as the Affleck/Jlo movie....
It is also 1 thousand million floating point operations per second.

are you sure? I thought that movie was more than a gigaflop! lol

 

[Tawcan]

I got to use this cluster early this year for photonic crystal FDTD simulation.

http://www.gdcfd.ubc.ca/Monster/

Not exactly the best cluster out there but hey it's a cluster.

 

[cV]

I wonder if the scalar vs vector wars WILL ever end...

 

[Gnufsh]

It's the worls's most powerful super computer currently, not the most powerful cpu. GFLOPS is GigaFLOPS, a FLOPS being Floating Point OPerations per Second, I believe. 8GFLOPS is 8,000,000,000 floating point operations per second. Keep in mind that this is a theoretical maximum. I don't pretend to know what the best CPU in the world is. The NEC one is good, but probably not entirely suitable for the desktop market. Anyone remember the FLOPS on a P4 off hand?

 

[stan03]

it is not, as anandtech has a review on one of their systems.

i can't find it, can you give me a link?

 

[tom10167]

It's the worls's most powerful super computer currently, not the most powerful cpu. GFLOPS is GigaFLOPS, a FLOPS being Floating Point OPerations per Second, I believe. 8GFLOPS is 8,000,000,000 floating point operations per second. Keep in mind that this is a theoretical maximum. I don't pretend to know what the best CPU in the world is. The NEC one is good, but probably not entirely suitable for the desktop market. Anyone remember the FLOPS on a P4 off hand?

I would think it'd be 8,000,000 FLOPS. Why? Giga = 1 million, a Gigabyte is 1,000kilobytes, and a kilobyte is 1,000 bytes. 1,000x1,000=1,000,000