Tuesday, February 3, 2009

the fastest computer on earf will be for gaming. kidding. nuclear administration.

specs-

20 petaflops (20,000 trillion calculations a second)

45-nm processors with 16 cores per chip in a cluster array of about 4,096 processors per rack

1.6 million CPU cores backed up by 1.6 petabytes of memory- over one and a half million gigs of RAM

6 megawatts of energy a year – the equivalent to the power consumed by 500 American homes a year

"The main purpose of the Sequoia program is to run complex computer simulations for nuclear weapons research. It will allow nuclear scientists to determine whether weapons are safe and will work as required under the DOE's National Nuclear Security Administration stockpile stewardship program."

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