Main Area and Open Discussion > Living Room

New Supercomputer Accomplishes What Other Supercomputers Can't

<< < (2/3) > >>

40hz:
Blahblahblah, but no specs :(
-f0dder (October 22, 2010, 02:26 PM)
--- End quote ---

Some specs can be found here.

It's a 512-node ASIC powered array set up for massively parallel (albeit specialized) computation.

"Metal" doesn't get much heavier than this puppy!  8)

MilesAhead:
Yet another one of those black gadgets with black controls.  They must be in braille.  It's not really as fast as they say.  But by the time you find the switch to get the result, it's ready with an answer. :)

f0dder:
Blahblahblah, but no specs :(
-f0dder (October 22, 2010, 02:26 PM)
--- End quote ---
Some specs can be found here.

It's a 512-node ASIC powered array set up for massively parallel (albeit specialized) computation.-40hz (October 22, 2010, 02:45 PM)
--- End quote ---
Thanks for the link - suspected wiki would have a link, but I got lazy ;P. This actually seems like an interesting supercomputer; yeahyeah, petaflops is great and all, but we've seen commodity clusters before... Anton is specialized, cool! Interesting to see that it can do so much more at a lower clock frequency because of that. Of course, it limits the uses which is a concern when you invest supercomputer-scale amount of money... but hey :)

kyrathaba:
In thinking about its uses now in biochemistry, imagine what they'll be able to model in a decade, with the improvements and innovations made in the intervening years...

Renegade:
In thinking about its uses now in biochemistry, imagine what they'll be able to model in a decade, with the improvements and innovations made in the intervening years...
-kyrathaba (October 23, 2010, 10:24 AM)
--- End quote ---

It's very exciting to think about these things.

The things that mostly interest me are in physics, but who cares? It's all really fun to find out about.

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[#] Next page

[*] Previous page