Meet the world’s most powerful computer

"Meet the world’s most powerful computer..."

10 Million Processor Cores

[If you watch the accompanying video the Super Computer starts at 1:03 -- it's well worth a look -- see it up close and personal.]

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170621-meet-the-worlds-most-powerful-computer

 

"...What the computer can do in one minute, is the equivalent to the entire global population, 7.2 billion people, using calculators constantly for 32 years..."

From the video at 2:45

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170621-meet-the-worlds-most-powerful-computer

 

I wonder what type of cooling system they use for that. A scifi movie I watched one time had all the main boards of a supercomputer immersed in a liquid coolant, do they really do that?

 

Immersing bosrds in liquid is 1970's technology, it's so old.

 

oh ok .... it didnt seem to work too well with my last phone... maybe by liquid coolant they didnt mean the kids paddling pool...

 

Interesting article, thanks for posting @hawki

 

Thanks for sharing the article. Some nice highlights to mull over on this.

 

Back in the 80’s I was a Systems Analyst for IBM. One of the techs was an old guy who’s first job with IBM was working on the original IBM mainframe which took up a whole floor. His job was to run around and replace the vacuum tubes that would blow out every minute or so.

 

oOps! There goes my keyboard Remind me to never read one of your posts while drinking coffee.

 

Thanks for sharing, it is interesting to see that it is used to analyze climate change and to maximize efficiency with renewables among other things, this is indeed a new image that China is projecting in the future, a very positive one towards the environment…

 

Thanks for this. It is really appreciated.
I don't think I will be successful with hinting for a birthday present.

 

I have been pondering (if there was a monitor fast enough) what kind of FPS I'd get in Call of Duty hooking it up to 10,000 GTX 1080's in a multi-SLI array.

 

If you played call of duty on it, it would develop artificial intelligence, learn at an exponential rate and then send terminators to your house to kill you.