20 petaflops supercomputer

[Towelie]

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/772/1050772/ibm-petaflops-supercomputer-tabs-us-nukes

Holy jesus.

Boringly dubbed "Sequioa", the aim is to get the system, which will be housed at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in a series of 96 racks, to log performance speeds of up to 20 petaflops.

Boasting over 1.6 million processors and some 1.6TB of memory, the Sequoia system will initially be used to keep track of the US' mountain of aging nukes and simulating nuclear explosions, er, tests to determine whether the weapons are stable and safe (irony?!) for use. The number of cores the supercomputer will have is, as of yet, a closely guarded secret.

If you are wondering, a flop is an acronym meaning FLoating point Operations Per Second.

[Newby]

That's what a FLOP is?!?!/

[sdfg]

i thought that's what a fish does.....

[Sidoh]

(>_-)v

[Towelie]

That's what a FLOP is?!?!/

There could be some people here (like me) who aren't familiar with the term, so since I had to look it up I figured I'd refer to it here so others don't have to too ;)