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ZeTron57 asked:


Worlds Fastest supercomputer announced: www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/06/09/fastest.computer.ap/index.html?iref=mpstoryview

It works at 1 petaflop. The bottom of the article states for every 376 million calculations it uses one watt of electricity. How much powerconsumption does this add up to per second, minute, hour for the entire petaflop?? As in how much energy is this compuer really using?

Thanks

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ME asked:


Alright, so for an independent study at school I’m considering building a “supercomputer” by linking up 25 or so old OLD computers (400 MHZ avg). There are two ways I was planning to do this, and I have no idea how to do either. I was either going to use the distributed computing idea and link them up on a network, or somehow link the processors together. Unfortunately, though, I have no idea where to start and have never done anything like this… can anyone help me out or give me a site that will help? I looked briefly at a beowolf cluster, but I’m not sure if that will work… the computers are all different.

Thanks!

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Allrighty asked:


Where do the currency exchange numbers come from? It’s not some guy setting it to certain price every day? It fluctuates in a matter of seconds? So what exactly calculates the number every second? Is it some kind of 1 supercomputer? Or how does it work?

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I’m looking to build a desktop supercomputer or something close to it for everything from gaming to research to programing. Any hardware that I should replace in my current design?

Processor: Overclocked Intel® Core™ i7-975 Extreme 3.86 GHz 8MB Cache
Power Supply: 1200 Watt Multi-GPU Approved Power Supply
Graphics Processor: Dual 1,792 MB NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 295
Memory: 24GB DDR3 SDRAM at 1333MHz – 6 x 4096MB
Motherboard: Intel® X-58 Motherboard- Socket 1366 Core i7 Ready, Dual Triple Channel DDR3 Memory
Operating System: Genuine Windows Vista® Ultimate (64-bit Edition) with Service Pack 1
System Drive: RAID 0 – 512GB (2 x 256GB) Solid State Drive
Optical Drives : Dual Drive Configuration – Drive 1: 20X Dual Layer Burner (DVD±RW)
Drive 2:6x Dual Layer Blu-ray Burner (BD-RE, DVD±RW, CD-RW)
Network Interface Card: Killer Xeno Pro
Sound Card: High-Definition 7.1 Performance Audio

Computer on a Chip

I-am-indy asked:


Let’s face it Humans are terrible leaders of countries, they promise , yet lie. They initialy get into politics to do good, but special interest groups, friends, and lobbyist get the better of them. They honestly think they can fix the worlds problems, but only manage to make them worse.

So, what country should experiment , by having a non-human ruler ? And what should it be ?

Personal Supercomputer

Pao asked:


I know that there are computers out there whose processing speeds are out of this world(when compared to a normal computer).

(lets just say standard computers can do what supercomputers do)
I just want to ask how long it will take for a single mid-range laptop computer to do computational work a supercomputer does in 1 year in say : a) finding prime numbers b) simulating weather conditions and c) counting from 1 to infinity(if a supercomputer counts at it’s max capacity for a year, how long will the laptop take to catch up?)

weird as this question might seem, i really wanna know.

thanks

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