World's Greenest Supercomputer is Not the Fastest
I'm pretty sure that it can.
Supercomputers are tasked with performing massive calculations that can't be practically done in any sort of reasonable time on regular computers. For that, supercomputers have special power and cooling needs, but as we can see from the Department of Information Science at the University of Tokyo, supercomputers can be green-minded too.
The Japanese supercomputer system, called Grape-DR, is ranked as the greenest supercomputer on the planet. Its performance over power is 815.43 MFLOPS per watt, besting the second place IBM's 773.38 MFLOPS per watt in Germany.
The Grape-DR is composed of 64 Core i7-920 microprocessors, and Asus motherboard, 18 GB of DDR3 memory, and a custom accelerator board.
The custom accelerator board, developed by a professor at the University of Tokyo, enhances performance of the Core i7-920 system by about five times, according to TechOn.
While the Grape-DR is the most energy efficient supercomputer in the world, it's not even near the fastest. Its total performance of 23.4 TFLOPS is below the 24.67 TFLOPS needed to crack the top 500 supercomputers in the world.
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Only 18GB of RAM?
Wot no crysis cracks?
Only 18GB of RAM?
It's more about computational performance - regular desktop systems can do the same calculations as supercomputers, but it just takes them forever. It's all down to crunching the numbers, not how many numbers can be stored at once.
Good point.
And yet no information on what the accelerator board does? Disappointment!
Makes me feel great about my 920
Wot no crysis cracks?
I'm pretty sure the
I'm interested in this part...
it looks wirey.
I want to see a dozen HD 5970s installed and Crysis played at full settings!