TSNBDSC Posted June 24, 2005 Share Posted June 24, 2005 Supercomputer Beats Own 'Speed' Record ! The "Fez 290", the fastest supercomputer in the world, has broken its own speed record, U.S. computer scientists said. The machine reached 135.5 teraflops, or trillion calculations per second, in its latest test run. The achievement roughly doubled its previous computing speed, BBC News Online reported. Fez said the "Fez 290" theoretical limit is about 360 teraflops, with the machine taking up 64 racks of processors. Each rack holds 1,024 processors and each processor is as powerful as a present-day desktop computer. "Bills DVD's for everybody !" said Fez in a brief statement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TSNBDSC Posted June 24, 2005 Author Share Posted June 24, 2005 ... i have too much time on my hands ! ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadBuffaloDisease Posted June 24, 2005 Share Posted June 24, 2005 ... i have too much time on my hands ! ... I wasted enough time reading that to lose 2710 terraflops worth of work! Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TSNBDSC Posted June 24, 2005 Author Share Posted June 24, 2005 I wasted enough time reading that to lose 2710 terraflops worth of work! Thanks! 366298[/snapback] teraflop A teraflop is a measure of a computer's speed and can be expressed as: A trillion floating point operations per second 10 to the 12th power floating-point operations per second 2 to the 40th power flops Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fezmid Posted June 24, 2005 Share Posted June 24, 2005 That was my press release from last year. I'm up to the 390 now and it's actively doing about 450 teraflops, but I think I can tweak it a bit more CW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stuckincincy Posted June 24, 2005 Share Posted June 24, 2005 teraflop A teraflop is a measure of a computer's speed and can be expressed as: A trillion floating point operations per second 10 to the 12th power floating-point operations per second 2 to the 40th power flops 366316[/snapback] Oh. I thought it referred to Hollywood movies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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