Q: What's better than a flop?

[unixronin]

A:  A petaflop.

Three of them, to be precise, if you have a fully-configured Blue Gene/P supercomputer — 216 cabinets, each cabinet holding 32 boards, each board holding 32 processors, each processor with four 850MHz PowerPC450 cores, for a total of 884,736 processor cores.

Comments

[ilcylic.livejournal.com]

That's a whole fuck-ton of math per second.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Indeed. And a fuckload of power dissipation, too.

[johnkzin.livejournal.com]

But ... will it run OS X? :-)

[mrmeval.livejournal.com]

No but it will run linux as a Beowolf cluster. ;)

[johnkzin.livejournal.com]

oh... so nothing useful then ;-)

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

It's probably safe to say it won't run Vista ;)

[hrrunka]

No. Not nearly enough power for that... ;>

[sierra-nevada.livejournal.com]

Now, if they only had an interesting problem which was that parallel ...

Oh, wait! I know!

Let's process spam with that!