The war for the fastest computer continues...

but can it load windows quickly?

lol, probably not.

lol, probably not. </font>[/QUOTE]not so super then, is it?

lol it's sounds great anyway. who knows maybe it can detect problems before they blow up.

42.7 teraflops... this is getting ridiculous :D

Is a "flop" the same thing as a hertz? I wouldn't think it was...but I'm no computer expert...

good stuff.. all the processing power.. geez..

flop == floating point operation

So 42.7 teraflops == 42.7 trillion floating point operations per second... of course a flop is architecture dependent, so the number doesn't really mean that much...

... but when do benchmarks ever? :rolleyes:

Wow imagine playing minesweeper on a beast like that!

lol, with the money that they spent on it, you would expect it to turn into a Destroyer and let you really go Minesweeping [img]tongue.gif[/img]

Yeah, I can almost Overclock my computer to about that speed [img]tongue.gif[/img]
Overheats a bit though :D

:D [img]graemlins/hehe.gif[/img] :D

Last time I tried it melted through the desk.

:D , hehe, oh well, mine only gets to about 3000 degrees, for some reason my water cooling kit starts expelling steam... :D

Yeah!! Finally a system that can play Doom 3!! ;) :D

That's fast. I think that HL2 shoud run pretty smoothly on that one. :D

reading today... just a coincidence i found this thread, but anyway, in competiton with this NASA computer, IBM has further increased the processing power of their "8000 power PC" processor bassed system, to sustain a claimed 70.72 teraflops.

So i found that fairly wow.

Holy crap, thats pretty damn good, do you have a link?

[ 12-15-2004, 11:19 AM: Message edited by: Hivetyrant ]

It's actually in "PC Authority" magaziene, the only link it gives is to www.ibm.com, but I have looked there, and it doesn't have anything new.

I might post again if I find an article or some pictures or something.

I found a more detailed story.

look at the size of the thing!!
They say it has "10,240 Itanium 2 processors"
http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/ne/p/20...4_columbia.jpg
http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/ne/p/20...ge_600x540.jpg
It holds "440 terabytes of data"

*falls off seat and is blown through 3 sets of walls into his garden by this revelation*

To quote Jazz, "IT'S GYNORMOUS LOOKIN'!"

lol, I remember back a while ago when computers the size of Basketball courts could only process at about 100mhz [img]tongue.gif[/img]

That thing is... Big?
How much would it cost, I wonder...

Roughly a bajillion smackaroos.

Roughly.