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

Computer Brain Interface

350mako asked:

The NSA needs the fastest computers in the world for code breaking, ect, These super computers are nicknamed “THE THINKING MACHINE” (for good reason)

Computer Brain Interface

jgluckibm asked:

See an animation of how a new type of on-chip water cooling makes possible a new generation of supercomputer that’s compact , energy efficient, and faster than the most powerful computer on earth. IBM Press Release: www.ibm.com

Computer on a Chip

hbowly asked:

1100 power mac G5s made into the worlds 3rd fastest super computer via clustering.

Computer on a Chip

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!

Mobile Computing Applications

AMDShanghaiExpress asked:

Cray, Inc. walks through the upgrade process of the Kraken supercomputer from Quad-Core AMD Opteron to Six-Core AMD Opteron.

Mobile Computer Magazine

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?

Computer Human Interface

Lance Winslow asked:




There is a bit of controversy concerning our artificial intelligent future. Many folks say that AI will never be as good as humans and yet, that is not exactly so. For instance, a human expert chess player cannot beat an AI chess software program, and that became a fact decades ago.

Today, an AI computer is being built by IBM that can beat the world’s greatest Jeopardy Player. Which makes sense because a super computer can store and instantly retrieve terabytes of information, a human brain simply cannot do that, in the present period, even an idiot savant brain.

For someone to actually say or predict that artificial intelligence can never match that of a human is like saying no car will ever be built to match the speed of a horse drawn carriage, that no cotton gin can out-pick a row of slaves in the fields, or that no one will ever make a flying craft that can fly faster and further than a bird. Of course, we all know that it is possible and it’s already been done. Humans build machines that are much more capable than themselves.

A traffic light is of more value than a traffic cop because it never gets tired, never complains, and is incapable of doing less that it was programmed. Much to the chagrin of the policemen’s union, indeed, but the facts are the facts, and we just can’t argue with that. So, when someone says that no AI Machine will replace a human, well, that’s just silly nonsense you see?

Information Communication Technology

petesteg asked:

Nortech’s mobile cluster, a 32-core supercomputer on wheels.

Mobile Computing Applications