Chinese supercomputer named world's fastest

[Don McKenzie]

Chinese supercomputer named world's fastest

November 14, 2010 The supercomputers on the Top 500 list, which is produced twice a year, are rated based on speed of
performance

China overtook the United States at the head of the world of supercomputing on Sunday when a survey ranked one of its
machines the fastest on the planet.

Tianhe-1, meaning Milky Way, achieved a computing speed of 2,570 trillion calculations per second, earning it the number
one spot in the Top 500 (www.top500.org) survey of supercomputers.

The Jaguar computer at a US government facility in Tennessee, which had held the top spot, was ranked second with a
speed of 1,750 trillion calculations per second.

http://www.physorg.com/news/2010-11-chinese-supercomputer-world-fastest.html

Cheers Don...

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In aus.computers Don McKenzie <5V@2.5a> wrote:
[...]

These PF records will come and go quickly for the next couple of years.
GPU technology makes it possible for anyone with around 1/2 mn to
make a PF-scale machine. It only takes some impetus (such as govt
pushing some money at you for no reason to make it happen.

Just 10 y back a cheap 1 TF machine occupied a whole room. These
days a 100 TF machine can sit on your desktop.

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[Vladimir Vassilevsky]

kym@kymhorsell.com wrote:

In aus.computers Don McKenzie <5V@2.5a> wrote:
[...]

These PF records will come and go quickly for the next couple of years.
GPU technology makes it possible for anyone with around 1/2 mn to
make a PF-scale machine. It only takes some impetus (such as govt
pushing some money at you for no reason to make it happen.

Just 10 y back a cheap 1 TF machine occupied a whole room. These
days a 100 TF machine can sit on your desktop.

In our days, every idiot has a computer more powerful then Cray-2. So
what? Yet 40 years ago people used to walk the Moon and build the things
like Concorde.

VLV

 

[Clocky]

Vladimir Vassilevsky wrote:

kym@kymhorsell.com wrote:

In aus.computers Don McKenzie <5V@2.5a> wrote:
[...]

These PF records will come and go quickly for the next couple of
years. GPU technology makes it possible for anyone with around 1/2
mn to make a PF-scale machine. It only takes some impetus (such as govt
pushing some money at you for no reason to make it happen.

Just 10 y back a cheap 1 TF machine occupied a whole room. These
days a 100 TF machine can sit on your desktop.

In our days, every idiot has a computer more powerful then Cray-2. So
what? Yet 40 years ago people used to walk the Moon and build the
things like Concorde.

Rolls-Royce used to make engines that didn't explode...

 

[Cesar Rabak]

Em 15/11/2010 21:10, Vladimir Vassilevsky escreveu:

kym@kymhorsell.com wrote:

In aus.computers Don McKenzie <5V@2.5a> wrote:
[...]

These PF records will come and go quickly for the next couple of years.
GPU technology makes it possible for anyone with around 1/2 mn to
make a PF-scale machine. It only takes some impetus (such as govt
pushing some money at you for no reason to make it happen.

Just 10 y back a cheap 1 TF machine occupied a whole room. These
days a 100 TF machine can sit on your desktop.

In our days, every idiot has a computer more powerful then Cray-2. So
what?

Yet 40 years ago people used to walk the Moon and build the things
like Concorde.
Vladimir:

People _achieved_ a number of times to walk in the moon (but you'll have
fingers to spare if you count w/two hands) and only one company
engineered the Concorde, a feat which has not been replicated to become
drill exercises in any engineering curricula or perceived as low tech
that can be done at whim.


--
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Get counted: http://counter.li.org/

 

[son of a bitch]

On 2010/11/16 08:55, Don McKenzie wrote:

Chinese supercomputer named world's fastest

November 14, 2010 The supercomputers on the Top 500 list, which is
produced twice a year, are rated based on speed of performance

China overtook the United States at the head of the world of
supercomputing on Sunday when a survey ranked one of its machines the
fastest on the planet.

Tianhe-1, meaning Milky Way, achieved a computing speed of 2,570
trillion calculations per second, earning it the number one spot in the
Top 500 (www.top500.org) survey of supercomputers.

The Jaguar computer at a US government facility in Tennessee, which had
held the top spot, was ranked second with a speed of 1,750 trillion
calculations per second.

http://www.physorg.com/news/2010-11-chinese-supercomputer-world-fastest.html


Cheers Don...

===================

But...

It will only work for 6 months, then the BAD CAPS will kick in.
Then it will get the Won't Boot Syndrome, or just crash at random
Intervals.

 

[kreed]

On Nov 16, 7:55 am, Don McKenzie <5...@2.5A> wrote:

Chinese supercomputer named world's fastest

November 14, 2010 The supercomputers on the Top 500 list, which is produced twice a year, are rated based on speed of
performance

China overtook the United States at the head of the world of supercomputing on Sunday when a survey ranked one of its
machines the fastest on the planet.

Tianhe-1, meaning Milky Way, achieved a computing speed of 2,570 trillion calculations per second, earning it the number
one spot in the Top 500 (www.top500.org) survey of supercomputers.

The Jaguar computer at a US government facility in Tennessee, which had held the top spot, was ranked second with a
speed of 1,750 trillion calculations per second.

http://www.physorg.com/news/2010-11-chinese-supercomputer-world-faste...

Cheers Don...

==================

Then next year the US will have the fastest (if they haven't yet gone
bankrupt) then it will be China again and so on...........

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[Cesar Rabak]

Em 15/11/2010 21:44, Clocky escreveu:

Vladimir Vassilevsky wrote:
kym@kymhorsell.com wrote:

In aus.computers Don McKenzie<5V@2.5a> wrote: [...]

These PF records will come and go quickly for the next couple of
years. GPU technology makes it possible for anyone with around
1/2 mn to make a PF-scale machine. It only takes some impetus
(such as govt pushing some money at you for no reason to make
it happen.

Just 10 y back a cheap 1 TF machine occupied a whole room. These
days a 100 TF machine can sit on your desktop.

In our days, every idiot has a computer more powerful then Cray-2.
So what? Yet 40 years ago people used to walk the Moon and build
the things like Concorde.


Rolls-Royce used to make engines that didn't explode...

Rolls-Royce also managed (pun intended) to go bankrupt in 1971 when cost
of development of 'fuel efficient' turbines development costs overran a
'mere' 100%...


--
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Cesar Rabak wrote:

Em 15/11/2010 21:44, Clocky escreveu:
Vladimir Vassilevsky wrote:
kym@kymhorsell.com wrote:

In aus.computers Don McKenzie<5V@2.5a> wrote: [...]

These PF records will come and go quickly for the next couple of
years. GPU technology makes it possible for anyone with around
1/2 mn to make a PF-scale machine. It only takes some impetus
(such as govt pushing some money at you for no reason to make
it happen.

Just 10 y back a cheap 1 TF machine occupied a whole room. These
days a 100 TF machine can sit on your desktop.

In our days, every idiot has a computer more powerful then Cray-2.
So what? Yet 40 years ago people used to walk the Moon and build
the things like Concorde.

Rolls-Royce used to make engines that didn't explode...

Rolls-Royce also managed (pun intended) to go bankrupt in 1971 when cost
of development of 'fuel efficient' turbines development costs overran a 'mere'
100%...

I didn't realise the RnD of their cars was so costly.

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[Adrian Jansen]

On 16/11/2010 9:10 AM, Vladimir Vassilevsky wrote:

kym@kymhorsell.com wrote:

In aus.computers Don McKenzie <5V@2.5a> wrote:
[...]

These PF records will come and go quickly for the next couple of years.
GPU technology makes it possible for anyone with around 1/2 mn to
make a PF-scale machine. It only takes some impetus (such as govt
pushing some money at you for no reason to make it happen.

Just 10 y back a cheap 1 TF machine occupied a whole room. These
days a 100 TF machine can sit on your desktop.

In our days, every idiot has a computer more powerful then Cray-2. So
what? Yet 40 years ago people used to walk the Moon and build the things
like Concorde.

VLV

Yes, and in those days we had people and corporations who were prepared
to work hard and take risks.

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[David Brown]

On 16/11/2010 01:50, Cesar Rabak wrote:

Em 15/11/2010 21:10, Vladimir Vassilevsky escreveu:


kym@kymhorsell.com wrote:

In aus.computers Don McKenzie <5V@2.5a> wrote:
[...]

These PF records will come and go quickly for the next couple of years.
GPU technology makes it possible for anyone with around 1/2 mn to
make a PF-scale machine. It only takes some impetus (such as govt
pushing some money at you for no reason to make it happen.

Just 10 y back a cheap 1 TF machine occupied a whole room. These
days a 100 TF machine can sit on your desktop.

In our days, every idiot has a computer more powerful then Cray-2. So
what?

Yet 40 years ago people used to walk the Moon and build the things
like Concorde.
Vladimir:

People _achieved_ a number of times to walk in the moon (but you'll have
fingers to spare if you count w/two hands) and only one company
engineered the Concorde, a feat which has not been replicated to become
drill exercises in any engineering curricula or perceived as low tech
that can be done at whim.

Actually, Concorde was a collaboration of /two/ companies (one British,
one French - as impressive a feat of linguistics and diplomacy as of
engineering).

 

[Ignacio G. T.]

El 17/11/2010 9:15, David Brown escribió:

On 16/11/2010 01:50, Cesar Rabak wrote:
Em 15/11/2010 21:10, Vladimir Vassilevsky escreveu:
kym@kymhorsell.com wrote:

Yet 40 years ago people used to walk the Moon and build the things
like Concorde.

People _achieved_ a number of times to walk in the moon (but you'll have
fingers to spare if you count w/two hands) and only one company
engineered the Concorde, a feat which has not been replicated to become
drill exercises in any engineering curricula or perceived as low tech
that can be done at whim.

Actually, Concorde was a collaboration of /two/ companies (one British,
one French - as impressive a feat of linguistics and diplomacy as of
engineering).

Wonder how they managed not mixing feet, pounds and gallons with metres,
kilograms and litres

 

[David Brown]

On 18/11/10 15:03, Ignacio G. T. wrote:

El 17/11/2010 9:15, David Brown escribió:
On 16/11/2010 01:50, Cesar Rabak wrote:
Em 15/11/2010 21:10, Vladimir Vassilevsky escreveu:
kym@kymhorsell.com wrote:

Yet 40 years ago people used to walk the Moon and build the things
like Concorde.

People _achieved_ a number of times to walk in the moon (but you'll have
fingers to spare if you count w/two hands) and only one company
engineered the Concorde, a feat which has not been replicated to become
drill exercises in any engineering curricula or perceived as low tech
that can be done at whim.

Actually, Concorde was a collaboration of /two/ companies (one British,
one French - as impressive a feat of linguistics and diplomacy as of
engineering).

Wonder how they managed not mixing feet, pounds and gallons with metres,
kilograms and litres

It's no problem - here in the rational world, technical, engineering and
scientific measurements are always done in metric. In the UK, imperial
measurements are used for rough values (such as "a pint of milk", or
"six foot tall"), but metric is used for accuracy or whenever you need
to calculate something.

 

[bugalugs]

On 19/11/2010 9:52 a.m., David Brown wrote:

On 18/11/10 15:03, Ignacio G. T. wrote:
El 17/11/2010 9:15, David Brown escribió:
On 16/11/2010 01:50, Cesar Rabak wrote:
Em 15/11/2010 21:10, Vladimir Vassilevsky escreveu:
kym@kymhorsell.com wrote:

Yet 40 years ago people used to walk the Moon and build the things
like Concorde.

People _achieved_ a number of times to walk in the moon (but you'll
have
fingers to spare if you count w/two hands) and only one company
engineered the Concorde, a feat which has not been replicated to become
drill exercises in any engineering curricula or perceived as low tech
that can be done at whim.

Actually, Concorde was a collaboration of /two/ companies (one British,
one French - as impressive a feat of linguistics and diplomacy as of
engineering).

Wonder how they managed not mixing feet, pounds and gallons with metres,
kilograms and litres


It's no problem - here in the rational world, technical, engineering and
scientific measurements are always done in metric. In the UK, imperial
measurements are used for rough values (such as "a pint of milk", or
"six foot tall"), but metric is used for accuracy or whenever you need
to calculate something.

I dunno three fifths of five eighths of SFA is a fairly accurate
measurement. Metricate that and you've no idea how much your talking
about.

 

[Hans-Bernhard Bröker]

On 18.11.2010 22:05, bugalugs wrote:

I dunno three fifths of five eighths of SFA is a fairly accurate
measurement.

And what kind of measure is an "SFA" supposed to be? Why would anyone
particularly need or want three eights of that?

Metricate that and you've no idea how much your talking about.

Pardon the metrically biased, but I'm having no idea what you talking
about even _before_ metricating it!

 

[SG1]

"Ignacio G. T." <igtorque.remove@evomer.yahoo.es> wrote in message
news:ic3bno$2u1$1@news.eternal-september.org...

El 17/11/2010 9:15, David Brown escribió:
On 16/11/2010 01:50, Cesar Rabak wrote:
Em 15/11/2010 21:10, Vladimir Vassilevsky escreveu:
kym@kymhorsell.com wrote:

Yet 40 years ago people used to walk the Moon and build the things
like Concorde.

People _achieved_ a number of times to walk in the moon (but you'll have
fingers to spare if you count w/two hands) and only one company
engineered the Concorde, a feat which has not been replicated to become
drill exercises in any engineering curricula or perceived as low tech
that can be done at whim.

Actually, Concorde was a collaboration of /two/ companies (one British,
one French - as impressive a feat of linguistics and diplomacy as of
engineering).

Wonder how they managed not mixing feet, pounds and gallons with metres,
kilograms and litres

The Frogs would not build it unless they were in charge. Notice it is no
longer flying.


>

 

[David Brown]

On 18/11/2010 22:14, Hans-Bernhard Bröker wrote:

On 18.11.2010 22:05, bugalugs wrote:

I dunno three fifths of five eighths of SFA is a fairly accurate
measurement.

And what kind of measure is an "SFA" supposed to be? Why would anyone
particularly need or want three eights of that?

"SFA" is an abbreviation for "sweet <bleep> all" (I hope you don't mind
the <bleep> - there may be children or Americans reading here).

Metricate that and you've no idea how much your talking about.

Pardon the metrically biased, but I'm having no idea what you talking
about even _before_ metricating it!

 

[Meindert Sprang]

"Ignacio G. T." <igtorque.remove@evomer.yahoo.es> wrote in message
news:ic3bno$2u1$1@news.eternal-september.org...

El 17/11/2010 9:15, David Brown escribió:
Actually, Concorde was a collaboration of /two/ companies (one British,
one French - as impressive a feat of linguistics and diplomacy as of
engineering).

Wonder how they managed not mixing feet, pounds and gallons with metres,
kilograms and litres

Maybe they did it the Canadian way: have bolts with metric heads and
imperial threads in an effort to keep everyone happy...

Meindert

 

[John G]

kreed used his keyboard to write :

On Nov 19, 7:39 pm, "Meindert Sprang" <m...@NOJUNKcustomORSPAMware.nl
wrote:
"Ignacio G. T." <igtorque.rem...@evomer.yahoo.es> wrote in
messagenews:ic3bno$2u1$1@news.eternal-september.org...

El 17/11/2010 9:15, David Brown escribi :
Actually, Concorde was a collaboration of /two/ companies (one British,
one French - as impressive a feat of linguistics and diplomacy as of
engineering).

Wonder how they managed not mixing feet, pounds and gallons with metres,
kilograms and litres

Maybe they did it the Canadian way: have bolts with metric heads and
imperial threads in an effort to keep everyone happy...


Have seen that sort of thing in Australia too. The format of
expressing the dimensions are often (say) 3/8" x 20mm

bolts sold in this format are common, especially in those little
blister packs at hardware stores.

That's because the diameter and thread form are an old

imperial"standard", Whitworth, whereas the length is in the country
accepted measurment standard.

If you buy metric bolts both the lengh and diameter will be metric.

--
John G

 

[kreed]

On Nov 19, 7:39 pm, "Meindert Sprang" <m...@NOJUNKcustomORSPAMware.nl>
wrote:

"Ignacio G. T." <igtorque.rem...@evomer.yahoo.es> wrote in messagenews:ic3bno$2u1$1@news.eternal-september.org...

El 17/11/2010 9:15, David Brown escribi :
Actually, Concorde was a collaboration of /two/ companies (one British,
one French - as impressive a feat of linguistics and diplomacy as of
engineering).

Wonder how they managed not mixing feet, pounds and gallons with metres,
kilograms and litres

Maybe they did it the Canadian way: have bolts with metric heads and
imperial threads in an effort to keep everyone happy...

Have seen that sort of thing in Australia too. The format of
expressing the dimensions are often (say) 3/8" x 20mm

bolts sold in this format are common, especially in those little
blister packs at hardware stores.



> Meindert