Monday, February 1, 2010

Think a quad-core PC is cool? Supercomputers with 100 million cores coming by 2018!

Cutting-edge computer science for massive modeling problems: Click computerworld.com

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2 comments:

  1. From TFA: "An exascale system that used CPU processing cores alone might take 2 gigawatts"

    With that kind of power you can run a Delorean time machine and have some watts left over.

    Randy

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  2. Battery life probably sucks, too. :)

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