Earth Simulater

[DwnMp3]

http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/biztech/11/15/fastest.computer.ap/

I wonder if one of those is for sale :D

[gracious]

WOW! 35.86 trillion calculations per second ...I can't even comprehend or appreciate how fast that actually is as I am still drooling over the fact that I can dl a 10mb file in less than 5 minutes!!:D

[DwnMp3]

37,840,000,000,000
thats 37.84 terahertz
thats 38,748.16 gigahertz
thats 1,938 AMD Athlon XP 2400+ 2.0GHz Processors
In just 640 machines, so each machine must do:
60.544 gigahertz
thats 31 AMD Athlon XP 2400+ 2.0GHz Processors

I wouldn't mind owning just one of those buggers.

:D

[jeeza]

Did anyone notice how the most colossal computing power just isn't good enough anymore ?
In the early days of computers, people who knew something about it were most impressed with their capacities. You would think that today's computers would be able to do stuff which people in those days never would have dreamt of, and they are indeed. But who would have thought that even today's computers aren't good enough anymore... just looking at the figures in the post above are enough to make your head spin.
Isn't there a limit to computing power needed and harnessed to accomplish even the biggest tasks envisionable ?

[Jhorner1]

As my wife says (teasing me)- Bigger! Faster! Stronger!

[Abbadon]

Originally posted by jeeza
Isn't there a limit to computing power needed and harnessed to accomplish even the biggest tasks envisionable ?

Nope. The only good / correct speed for a computer is: "faster" ;) But that's just my opinion :p

In reality, mankind will always use the fastest computers to do the most complex things, then they'll see something more complex behind that thing and will hence have the need for an even faster / complexer machine.

And of course, eventually, we'll learn that the anwser is 42

[saphalline]

I thought it was 50-something... Darn! Can never remember what base they used! ;)

[pave_spectre]

Originally posted by Abbadon
And of course, eventually, we'll learn that the anwser is 42

We already know the answer is 42, what we need to learn is what the question is.:p

[Abbadon]

Originally posted by pave_spectre


We already know the answer is 42, what we need to learn is what the question is.:p

For which we need... a bigger computer! There's just no end to it. ;)

I wonder what framerates one might get running UT2004 on Deep Thought...

[pave_spectre]

I wonder what framerates one might get running UT2004 on Deep Thought...

Depends on what video card you run.

[jeeza]

Originally posted by pave_spectre
We already know the answer is 42, what we need to learn is what the question is.:p
Lots of questions leading to that answer...take your pick.

[jeeza]

Originally posted by DwnMp3
37,840,000,000,000
thats 37.84 terahertz
thats 38,748.16 gigahertz
thats 1,938 AMD Athlon XP 2400+ 2.0GHz Processors
In just 640 machines, so each machine must do:
60.544 gigahertz
thats 31 AMD Athlon XP 2400+ 2.0GHz Processors
Does nobody feel humbled, abashed, or even exhilarated by the sheer gargantuesque colossality of these - admit it - impressing figures ? Don't you feel a certain reverence ?
Come on. You know what you can do, don't you, with just a 1000 or 2000 MHz processor... 128 MB RAM... 6 GB HDD ? Just a few years ago, all this was considered enormous resources for a normal pc, wasn't it ?

[gracious]

sorry I am still drooling over my 5 min. 10mb dl :D

[Bumpus]

I remember eons ago when I used to work for Radio Shack. The Model 4 was the BIG computer then. And then they came out with a harddrive for it....5 megs! The thing was 24" square and 8" high and cost $2000.00! (Oh I forgot, the $149.95 interface cable was not included!)

Now my son tells me 512 meg of RAM is not enough. Go figure!