IBM’s “Roadrunner” crowned world’s fastest supercomputer
by Stevie Smith - Jun 10 2008, 11:12
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Think of the possibilities !!!!!
10 print 'Hello World'
20 goto 10
Imagine that running at 1 petaflop !
Hope it doesn't have Vista
Still takes 2 minutes to load Windows.
ROFL! I just wanted the 3 above me to know, I find you all very funny. :P
bah someone posted b4 me.. not you.. the other 3 lol
I find it ?ironic? that they used technology originally designed for games and leisure. Massively advanced...and many many ps3s all put together = super computer used to model nuclear weapons and climate.
Now if you swapped out the dual cores for quad cores.....
Has the author heard of Moore's Law (computing power doubles every 18 months)? If it holds up, in only 30 years the high-end laptops of the future which today run 1/100,000 the speed of the roadrunner will surpass it by a wide margin. In fact these future laptops should run more than 10 times faster than the roadrunner and will likely be cheaper than todays high-end models. BEEP-BEEP!
To continue the Moore's Law theme, in 50 years those laptops should reach the point where they surpass the Roadrunner speeds by a factor of 100,000+!!! It's just not a linear world...look out for the singularity (see Ray Kurzweil's book)...it's coming to a livingroom near you. :)
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CalJun 10th, 2008 - 12:55:26
Yes, but does it have a square root button?
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