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Sun Unveils The Most Powerful Super-Computer on the Planet

The supercomputer contains 82 Sun Blade 6048 Modular Systems racks
Each rack holds 48 Sun Fire 6000 Blade Servers, for a total of 3,936
Each blade has four quad-core AMD processors
That makes a total of 15,744 AMD processors, with 62,976 cores!

:bowdown:

500 teraflops :eek:

Whats th power on the “2nd” fastest now? I forget.

the “publically disclosed” fastest list that i was able to track down quickly is

http://www.top500.org/lists/2007/11

http://www.top500.org/system/8968

where is slick rick. how is that super computer doing at ub?

Meh its all about who runs the worlds largest SAN :wink:

Oh, and so we are apparently only ~12 years away from surpassing the processing power of the human brain.

:tinfoilhat:

…500,000,000,000,000 today… doubling every 2 years.
~20,000,000,000,000,000 for the human brain (fact checkers c’mon in plz).

again. thats public information :tinfoilhat:

and, you can’t crack a 2048 bit pgp key with a san son :stuck_out_tongue:

Yea… people tend to forget that DARPA founded the interwebs et al… and obviously there are alot more powers at work then that.

:tspry: