[ExI] ibm takes on the commies

[spike]

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Subject: [ExI] ibm takes on the commies

 

 

Computer hipsters explain this to me.  When they are claiming 10 petaflops,
they mean using a few tens of thousands of parallel processors, ja?  We
couldn't check one Mersenne prime per second with it or anything, ja?  It
would be the equivalent of 10 petaflops assuming we have a process that is
compatible with massive parallelism?  The article doesn't say how many
parallel processors are involved:

 

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/02/15/ibm-battles-china-worlds-fastest-s
upercomputer/?test=latestnews

 

 

 

OK found a site that says this thing has 750,000 cores.  

 

Kewallllll.

 

spike

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