| tombi123 said: why are so many people trying to make this news negative? is it because its on the ps3? This is clearly a good thing so why cant people accept it and give a well done to all the work. |
because I bet that this research will end in nothing.
not because I don't want a cure...
but because this is only a big spot.
and ok.
but when they make a spot on sorrow of people dying right now... 
what means a "decade"????????
did they consider new cpus coming next year????
can they prove this "decade"??????
which numbers they showed to prove this petaflop?????
READ THIS:
June 25, 2007
IBM has devised a new Blue Gene supercomputer--the Blue Gene/P--that will be capable of processing more than 3 quadrillion operations a second, or 3 petaflops, a possible record. Blue Gene/P is designed to continuously operate at more than 1 petaflop in real-world situations.
Blue Gene/P marks a significant milestone in computing. Last November, the Blue Gene/L was ranked as the most powerful computer on the planet: it topped out at 280 teraflops, or 280 trillion operations a second during continuous operation.
Put another way, a Blue Gene/P operating at a petaflop is performing more operations than a 1.5-mile-high stack of laptops.
On June 19 (2006.06.19), Japan’s Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (Riken), SGI Japan and Intel announced the development of a supercomputer with a theoretical peak performance of 1 petaflops (one million billion floating point operations per second). Known as the MDGRAPE-3 (or the Protein Explorer), the computer system is designed to perform molecular dynamics simulations of such phenomena as non-bonding interactions between atoms.
The system consists of 201 units equipped with 24 of RIKEN’s MDGRAPE-3 LSI chips for molecular dynamics simulation (total of 4,808 chips), which are connected to 64 parallel servers equipped with 256 of Intel’s Xeon 5000-series cores and 37 parallel servers equipped with 74 Xeon 3.2 GHz cores.
In the future, RIKEN plans to further upgrade the system with Xeon 5100-series processors (codenamed Woodcrest), and testing is now underway.
The LINPACK Benchmark, which is the standard for the Top 500 List, could not be performed on the system, so the performance cannot be compared directly with the world’s other top supercomputers. However, the system’s theoretical peak performance of 1 petaflops will set the computer firmly at the top of the list, with a speed about three times that of IBM’s BlueGene/L at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (currently No.1 on the list).
