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Old June 18th, 2012, 08:31 AM
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Giant cluster built to test nuclear weapons stockpile breaks HPC speed record.
Every six months, Earth’s biggest supercomputers have a giant race to see which can lay claim to being the world’s fastest high-performance computing cluster. In the latest Top 500 Supercomputer Sites list unveiled Monday morning, a newly assembled cluster built with IBM hardware at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) takes the top prize. Its speed? A whopping 16.32 petaflops, or 16 thousand trillion calculations per second. With 96 racks, 98,304 compute nodes, 1.6 million cores, and 1.6 petabytes of memory across 4,500 square feet, the IBM Blue Gene/Q system installed at LLNL overtakes the 10-petaflop, 705,000-core “K computer” in Japan's RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science.

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Old June 18th, 2012, 11:42 AM
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So much power to test nuclear weapons?
And i thought they were getting rid of most of the arsenal . . .
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So much power to test nuclear weapons?
Ummm, no. This computer is use by the Department of "Energy" - not STRATCOM or the Department of Defense. Totally separate entities who rarely co-mingle. And to that, the DoE is involved in MUCH MORE than just nuclear "energy".
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Removed Off Topic Posts. Let's stick to the subject and not get into politics. Thank you.
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