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  1. October 20th, 2003, 10:14 PM #1
    Lansing_Banda
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    Everybody Meet HAL on Crack

    If you want to blow your mind go give this a look--> http://www.es.jamstec.go.jp/esc/eng/index.html

    It is called the Earth Simulator and it is the fastest computer in the world. It runs at 35.86 TeraFlops...

    That system is 1337.
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  2. October 20th, 2003, 10:16 PM #2
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    OMG! I drooled on my monitor over that picture...
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  3. October 21st, 2003, 12:35 AM #3
    sumdumguy
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    wow... just.. wow..

    hardware system configuration > http://www.es.jamstec.go.jp/esc/eng/...re/system.html

    The ES is a highly parallel vector supercomputer system of the distributed-memory type, and consisted of 640 processor nodes (PNs) connected by 640x640 single-stage crossbar switches. Each PN is a system with a shared memory, consisting of 8 vector-type arithmetic processors (APs), a 16-GB main memory system (MS), a remote access control unit (RCU), and an I/O processor. The peak performance of each AP is 8Gflops. The ES as a whole thus consists of 5120 APs with 10 TB of main memory and the theoretical performance of 40Tflops
    I'm asking Santa Claus if I can have this for Xmas
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  4. October 21st, 2003, 02:55 AM #4
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    /me ceases to exist

    I sure wish I could play with that computer for a year!!! or even a day.
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  6. October 21st, 2003, 04:12 AM #5
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    I don't think my heart could take it!
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  7. October 21st, 2003, 04:15 AM #6
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    The operating system running on ES is an enhanced version of NEC's UNIX-based OS called "SUPER-UX" that is developed for NEC's SX Series supercomputers.
    well there goes my theory that they needed all the processing power just to get ME to run for 20mins without crashing

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