Whats the Fastes SuperComputer?

[o0OBruceLeeO0o]

And how many Ghz is it? Im just curious

 

[FunkDaMonkMan]

i'd like to know also...

c'mon someone!

 

[Gerst240]

right now it is the earth simulator it has approximately 40 TFlops peak performance, and a total memory of 10 TeraBytes


i found all this out at http://www.es.jamstec.go.jp/


but http://www.top500.org has the top 500 super computers in the world

 

[DDR-PIII]

40TFlops i wouldnt mind using that for a week for our seti team

 

[o0OBruceLeeO0o]

wow! One of them, I think the 3rd in top500 has 750 nodes. Each node has 4 1ghz processors and 4 gigs of ram.

look how big it is lol

 

[Garfield]

Wow! That's some expensive hardware right there. If I was a millioniare, I would have a room (controlled room) filled with some setup like that and those computers would be soley dedicated to Folding. Think of the WUs you could get done with that!

 

[DaddyB]

If you were a millionaire you still couldn't afford a set up like that...that kind of stuff costs in the 10s of millions. To be in the top 10 it would cost upwards of 50 million.

 

[Mr. $T$]

Ok fine If I were Bill Gates...................................


How many flops does and avarage computer have?



The scary part is In 20 years We Will be looking at this saying My home computer can kick the crap out of that.

 

[Penguin4x4]

about 3.5GFlops for a 1.5GHz proc. (Guesstimate)

 

[FunkDaMonkMan]

my dualie does 8.2 right now.... I'm goin for 10

 

[thef0x82]

I'm familiar with hertz, but not flops. Anyone care to elaborate?

 

[AZN]

Wow! That's some expensive hardware right there. If I was a millioniare, I would have a room (controlled room) filled with some setup like that and those computers would be soley dedicated to Folding. Think of the WUs you could get done with that!

"soley dedicated to folding"
if u had millions to throw away... i think it would be better given to standford for the research... i think that will work better then the folding rigs.

AZN

 

[Daemonfly]

How does one determine the # of flops "normal" desktops like ours does?

I always wanted to compare to our IBM mainframe I work on ^_^

 

[Wommalong]

Holy $hit thats alot of processing power...

 

[Garfield]

What exactly is a "flop"? Can somebody explain this?

 

[JigPu]

FLOP - FLOating Point operation (any operation that requires the use of a decimal point for precision. Multiplication, Division, ect)

FLOPs - Floating Point operations PER SECOND

How can you determine average computer FLOPs? Get SETI@Home OK, so you don't want to do that? There's a fairly simple way. First, find your CPU on the chart below. Then go to the CpF colmnum (Cycles / FLOP) Divide 1 by this number (1/CpF), and multiply by your CPU speed. The answer you get will be in MegaFLOPs (if you used your CPU speed in MHz) or GigaFLOPs (if you used your CPU speed in GHz).

Have fun
(PS: My AMD system averages 302 MegaFLOPs.)

EDIT: Yargh!! TheForumIsDown is down! I can't upload the chart unless somebody has somewhere for me to host it... If you want your FLOPs, you know you'll help

JigPu