20 petaflop DOE Sequoia supercomputer under construction

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20 petaflop DOE Sequoia supercomputer under construction

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I See Your Petaflop and Raise You 19 More
wired wrote:By almost any standard, the new computer will be staggering. It will have 1.6 million processing cores, 1.6 petabytes of memory, 96 racks and 98,304 computing nodes. Yet, the new computer will have a much smaller footprint at 3,400 square feet than the current fastest computer's 5,200 square feet. And it will be much more energy efficient than its predecessors, only drawing 6 megawatts of power a year. That's about how much energy 500 American homes use in the same period.
Sequoia will go online sometime in 2012.

...perhaps December 21? :wink:
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10 or 20?
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Libra Monkee wrote:10 or 20?
RTFA? :wink:

it's 20, sorry for the fat-finger thread title. :oops:
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chicken n waffles wrote:Image
Seriously.

"...Sequoia became self aware sometime in 2012".
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That whole Mayan calendar thing is starting to creep me out. :eek:
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complacent wrote:That whole Mayan calendar thing is starting to creep me out. :eek:
It creeps me out a lot less when I think about how McKenna made most of his revelations on psilocybin.
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Along these lines, there is a national lab that will give you fee access to a super computer -- as long as you share any data that you crunch on it.

When Sequoia does go online, it's going to be very interesting...
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