Sequoia Supercomputer Towers above the Rest

[Terry McCracken]

http://www.top500.org/lists/2012/06/press-release

MANNHEIM, Germany; BERKELEY, Calif.; and KNOXVILLE, Tenn.—For the first time since November 2009, a United States supercomputer sits atop the TOP500 list of the world’s top supercomputers. Named Sequoia, the IBM BlueGene/Q system installed at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory achieved an impressive 16.32 petaflop/s on the Linpack benchmark using 1,572,864 cores.

[Dr.Wael Deeb]

http://www.top500.org/lists/2012/06/press-release

MANNHEIM, Germany; BERKELEY, Calif.; and KNOXVILLE, Tenn.—For the first time since November 2009, a United States supercomputer sits atop the TOP500 list of the world’s top supercomputers. Named Sequoia, the IBM BlueGene/Q system installed at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory achieved an impressive 16.32 petaflop/s on the Linpack benchmark using 1,572,864 cores.

Wow

[ZirconiumX]

Now we just have to get Stockfish running on it.

Rybka Cluster eat my dust.

Matthew:out

[Daniel Shawul]

Question is how long will it stay there ? I read somewhere in a few years we will be seeing a scale of whatever is next to petaflop, with a hybrid approach of cpu-gpu-fpga.

[Martin Thoresen]

Question is how long will it stay there ? I read somewhere in a few years we will be seeing a scale of whatever is next to petaflop, with a hybrid approach of cpu-gpu-fpga.

Exa.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exa-

[Daniel Shawul]

Prediction Exa in 2018, Zetta in 2028, Yotta in 2038.
Implications of exa scale computing: Simulation of a human brain! (rat's brain before that), 2 weaks weather prediction (this time for real )
cheers

[JuLieN]

I had a very weird and off topic thought, reading this article: my first thought was "wow, this thing must cost in one second the amount of electricity I would use in one year!"

[jefk]

[quote="Daniel Shawul"] Simulation of a human brain!
cheers[/quote]

well i guess it will depend on whose brain they are going to simulate.

and maybe they finally can show chess is a draw ?

ah well otherwise i got another chess variant, as Fischer random
doesnt seem to be so popular: 'alternative chess',
we simply exchange the location of king and queen,
so king on d1. And you need another opening book.

oh and btw, its no fair i think White always starts,
so in alternative chess we let Black start.
And why should a1 be on the left corner of the White side?
In alternative chess it should be on the left corner of the Black side.

oh and btw then maybe this exa computer can show
1.d4 will be the best move ..

[Daniel Shawul]

Turns out article I read is quite old. Rat's and Cat's brain have been solved.

A joke happened to me:
Question: What to do with Zeta flops in 2028?
Dumb(?) Guy: Simulate a 1000 brains ... an Einestein.
You can guess when my brain was/will be solved from this attempt of a joke

Note that most are tested on LINPACK so we can't use its full power for chess. Plus solving it is not of the utmost importance to many (cancer,natural catastrophes and probably war.. are top priority). Nothing happened after checkers got solved..people still play it anyway. Also we know e4! don't loose.

Oh and btw I think your writing style sucks

[jefk]

[quote="Daniel Shawul"]Turns out article I read is quite old. Rat's and Cat's brain have been solved.

the neurons maybe, but not consciousness.
cmputers are deterministic, a humans brain is not.
at least mine is not or at least i believe its not.
irrespective of my writing style.
which i learned from Blik(C) btw on ICC