Post by swamprat on Mar 28, 2013 7:06:50 GMT -6
Just down the road from Lois:
Long-delayed Blue Waters supercomputer at Univeristy of Illinois among world's most powerful
Published March 27, 2013
The plan was to build what would be, at least for a short time, the fastest supercomputer in the world. But more importantly, Blue Waters would also be able to sustain a speed of at least one petaflop -- a thousand trillion operations a second, a long-sought speed that makes massive computational projects possible.
There is almost no end to the list of numbers you can use to explain what Blue Waters can do.
At a maximum speed of 11.6 petaflops, it is probably the third-fastest supercomputer in the world behind a Cray-built computer known as Titan at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee and an IBM machine, Sequoia, at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, according to a website that tracks supercomputers.
There are also those 30-plus cabinets -- they sit on a tiled floor that's raised six feet to accommodate the cooling system that such as massive computer requires. Kramer lifts one of those heavy, concrete-reinforced tiles to reveal a ladder, climbing down and -- shouting over the continuous, loud hum from above -- shows off hundreds of yards of pipe carrying a constant flow cold water -- thousands of gallons of it a minute.
Blue Waters also has a 300-petabyte storage system. According to Dunning, "The amount of storage we have and the bandwith of storage we have in the Blue Waters system, as far as we know, is the largest, most intense in the world."
Read more: www.foxnews.com/tech/2013/03/27/long-delayed-blue-waters-supercomputer-illinois/#ixzz2Oq0KpFDs
Long-delayed Blue Waters supercomputer at Univeristy of Illinois among world's most powerful
Published March 27, 2013
The plan was to build what would be, at least for a short time, the fastest supercomputer in the world. But more importantly, Blue Waters would also be able to sustain a speed of at least one petaflop -- a thousand trillion operations a second, a long-sought speed that makes massive computational projects possible.
There is almost no end to the list of numbers you can use to explain what Blue Waters can do.
At a maximum speed of 11.6 petaflops, it is probably the third-fastest supercomputer in the world behind a Cray-built computer known as Titan at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee and an IBM machine, Sequoia, at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, according to a website that tracks supercomputers.
There are also those 30-plus cabinets -- they sit on a tiled floor that's raised six feet to accommodate the cooling system that such as massive computer requires. Kramer lifts one of those heavy, concrete-reinforced tiles to reveal a ladder, climbing down and -- shouting over the continuous, loud hum from above -- shows off hundreds of yards of pipe carrying a constant flow cold water -- thousands of gallons of it a minute.
Blue Waters also has a 300-petabyte storage system. According to Dunning, "The amount of storage we have and the bandwith of storage we have in the Blue Waters system, as far as we know, is the largest, most intense in the world."
Read more: www.foxnews.com/tech/2013/03/27/long-delayed-blue-waters-supercomputer-illinois/#ixzz2Oq0KpFDs