10 pentaflops cost how much?
Posted: Fri Nov 04, 2011 10:45 am
Fastest computer (at the present that is unclas) now operational
I don't know what the power consumption is for a 10x speed jump but I'll venture a guess to say that it is at least 2x.wired wrote: On Wednesday, Japanese IT giant Fujitsu and the government-funded RIKEN research lab announced that the supercomputer they’ve built in Kobe can speed through 10.51 quadrillion floating point operations per second.
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The original idea was for indigenous IT giants Fujitsu, Hitachi, and NEC to collaborate on the $1.2bn project, but in the wake of the 2009 worldwide financial crisis, both NEC and Hitachi dropped out of this all-Japanese effort.
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Fujitsu was not able to give us the official power consumption of the completed K cluster, but in June, when it reached a one petaflop peak, it consumed 9.89 megawatts— aka $9.89 million dollars a year.
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It employs processing clusters of over 88,000 specially-designed HPC Fujitsu SPARC64 VIIIfx chips as well as 864 server racks to perform its computational feats.