Supercomputer...

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hpi

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I think theres only 3 or 4 in the world but I was wanting to know, what the hecks in the supercomputer and how is it so super?
 
there are actually thousands.... its just a bunch of computers working as one. they have an obvious reason... processing lots of data
 
hpi said:
omg I want nasas super computer!! thanks for the wikipedia link.
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Only use I can come up with, if I had it, would be rendering CGI and for folding. What would you use it for?
 
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mrjack said:
Only use I can come up with, if I had it, would be rendering CGI and for folding. What would you use it for?
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Lol. Nothing really just to say that I had one :P
I wonder if it can do lots of multi tasking bc then id have a use for it.
 
Super computers are used for many things. One big thing is the prediction of weather, and natural disasters such as earthquakes and such. They can predict all the variables in like a hurricane with a supercomputer and simulate what it will be like.
 
actually, the main use they have been used for is for calculating the forces and speeds ect. that happen in Nuclear Blasts.
 
Can you imagine folding on IBM's Blue? or that weather computer in Japan? you get a WU, runs for a few seconds/minutes, you send it in, get a new one, works for a few seconds... that would be awesome.
 
i was looking on wiki a few weeks ago and i saw that the IBM's Blue can calculate Pie to a million in under 8 seconds, but now i can't find it :(
 
I made a cluster at my house. I have 3 PIIIs 866mhz setup in a cluster. What would normally have taken me a week to render on my x2 3800+, i can do in about 50 hours with my pIIIs. :D
 
I'd really like to have some extra computers to render animations. Cause for my liquid physics test it took like 4-5 days to render around 300-400 frames, which was quite annoying as I couldn't play any games during that time.
 
The_Beast said:
i was looking on wiki a few weeks ago and i saw that the IBM's Blue can calculate Pie to a million in under 8 seconds, but now i can't find it :(
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It has to be able to calculate much faster then that!

My Core 2 Duo @ 3.13Ghz can calculate 1M in 19sec on just one core, so it would be about 8sec if It utilized both cores!
 
[-0MEGA-];545786 said:
It has to be able to calculate much faster then that!

My Core 2 Duo @ 3.13Ghz can calculate 1M in 19sec on just one core, so it would be about 8sec if It utilized both cores!
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Ditto...14 seconds on my core 2 Duo! :D
 
[-0MEGA-];545987 said:
Very nice, I had my E6300 at 3.13Ghz on air.
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I could push it over 4ghz but I dont see any need for it, it is super stable at 3.8 and plenty fast enough for what ever I do. Before I upgraded to water cooling I was running at 3.4 and then I tried 3.6 on air cooling and it was not stable using cpu burn in...it would boot but when I put a load on CPU for more than an hour it would crash, I found my happy spot now :D

Even folding and recoding a movie at the same time my temp never gets above 35 degrees C
 
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