Japan Plans World's Fastest Computer

[idlisambar]

TOKYO - Japan has plans to start building a supercomputer next year that can operate 73 times faster than the world's fastest supercomputer, the government said Monday.

The American Blue Gene/L system supercomputer developed by International Business Machine Corp. at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California, currently holds the title of the world's fastest. That machine is capable of 136.8 teraflops, or 136.8 trillion calculations per second, according to Japan's Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.

Japan wants to develop a supercomputer that can operate at 10 petaflops, or 10 quadrillion calculations per second, which is 73 times faster than the Blue Gene, an official of the ministry said on condition of anonymity.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050725/ap_on_hi_te/japan_supercomputer

[opihimoimoi]

1. Computer GAMES will FLY ... ......... ... ..>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> :o)

[Maple]

2. Human brain connections

apparently do only 200 transactions per second. Hmmm

[Skink]

3. Meanwhile America appropriates 100 Billion to hang out on Mars.

Oh and another 300 billion for I-raq.

[Maple]

6. Better Mars

than Iraq wouldn't you say?

[idlisambar]

4. True, but....

...the brain offers more parallelism. The brain operates completely differently than a Von Neumann machine or any other architecture yet conceived so an apples to apples comparison is not possible.

[Maple]

5. Hey, they're beating us

at chess. :D