How to Upgrade a Supercomputer, 37,376 Chips at a Time
SOURCE: DIGG • 2009-11-17
TOPICS:
Supercomputers • Parallel Computing • Cluster Computing • Concurrent Computing • Distributed Computing Architecture • Cray • Flops • National Center For Computational Sciences • Technology_internet
[58 diggs @ Hardware] The most powerful supercomputer in the world, the Cray XT5 (aka 'Jaguar') is a computing monster with the ability to clock 1.759 petaflops (1,759 trillion) calculations per sec. So just what exactly is inside this machine? About 37,376 AMD process...
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