U.S. building next wave of supercomputers

[JRViejo]

The U.S. is building two 20-petaflop supercomputers, many times more powerful than anything operating today, including China's new supercomputer, the Tianhe-1A, which is expected to be officially crowned next week as the world's fastest system.

Oak Ridge National Laboratory, home for what has been the world's most powerful system, the Jaguar, a 1.75-petaflop system, versus Tianhe-1A's 2.5 petaflops, is building a 20-petaflop system that will include accelerators.

That system will be ready in 2012, James Hack, director of the National Center for Computational Sciences at Oak Ridge, told Computerworld. No other details about the system are being offered.

Computerworld Article by Patrick Thibodeau.

[Noob]

These monsters uses so much energy xD

[funkydude]

I hope they build a record breaking wind farm to support it.

[Searching_ _ _]

Would be nice to see a flops to watt ratio, for sure.

They are probably going to power it with zero point energy or cold fusion, no need for a wind farm.

[CloneRanger]

Originally Posted by Searching_ _ _

They are probably going to power it with zero point energy

ZPE, now you're talking - http://www.searlsolution.com/technology.html

[Searching_ _ _]

The Searl device, from what I saw of his vids, is nothing more than a non-traditional magnet/coil generator/motor.
It will not be enough to power a 20 petaflop SC.
Was pretty cool to see magnets rotating on a ring, though not anything like what is postulated by Dr. Harold Puthoff.
http://www.forteantimes.com/features...l_puthoff.html

[JRViejo]

In the latest ranking, released Sunday, the Tianjin National Supercomputer Center's Tianhe-1A system benchmarked a performance of 2.67 petaflops (quadrillion floating-point calculations per second), surpassing the former top achiever, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility's Cray XT5 Jaguar system, which clocked in at 1.75 petaflops in this round.

China rocks Top 500 supercomputer list by Joab Jackson.