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Skeptical Greg
9th June 2008, 07:25 AM
IBM has announced the achievement of petaflop ( one thousand trillion calculations per second )

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7443557.stm

"The latency of the calculations is so small that for all practical purposes it is real time."


Go Big Blue !
Complexity
9th June 2008, 05:09 PM
Very cool.
X
9th June 2008, 05:28 PM
Does this mean those real-time 3D simulation things with the glasses and the many screens won't have that headache-inducing flicker anymore?

If so, hooray!
If not, at least I have Advil.
DoubtingStephen
9th June 2008, 05:48 PM
I bet Steve Jobs is sorry he dumped PowerPC now! Oh, wait, never mind.

This is cool though. I can just see Diogenes using one of these for Folding@Home.
jsfisher
9th June 2008, 07:08 PM
I bet Steve Jobs is sorry he dumped PowerPC now! Oh, wait, never mind.

This is cool though. I can just see Diogenes using one of these for Folding@Home.

Roadrunner is not completely PowerPC based. It uses "tri-blades" -- two blades of cell broadband engines (which are Power based) and one blade of AMD Opterons. (There's actually a fourth blade for interconnect and I/O.)
INRM
10th June 2008, 12:11 AM
If they decide to simulate the real world and all the life on it...

Wouldn't it be unethical to simulate a sentient being, give it life, and then once the experiment's over, just kill it? I mean you gave it life -- I mean when a human gives live to a baby they can't just rub it out once they're done... it's alive and it has rights.