Comments on: Hector, Europe’s fastest super computer

By: IBMer

IBMer — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 10:39:35 +0000

Fastest general purpose computer used for several unique and interesting projects:

Average floating point operations per second 827,547.0 GigaFLOPS / 827.547 TeraFLOPS

http://boincstats.com/stats/project_graph.php?pr=bo

And it’s still growing!

By: RankoK

RankoK — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 15:37:53 +0000

“Software is decelerating faster than hardware is accelerating.” Gates’ Law

(law’s name refers to Bill Gates)

wikipedia

By: vinks

vinks — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 07:50:09 +0000

the pic in the article is of bluegene not hector. and usually for machines like this you are paying for the scalable networks for parallel processing. and in the case of the cray machines, most likely memory bandwidth which they currently seem to excel at.

its most likely running linux of some sort, unicos isnt really what customers want these days

By: jean

jean — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 05:49:25 +0000

“supercomputer that could help answer some of science’s biggest questions will….”

I already know the answer…its 42.

By: RankoK

RankoK — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 00:12:09 +0000

is not so dificult to spend lots of $$ to build supercomputer, it’s much biger problem to create software for that hardware…

all that hardware but what exploits that power?

imagine that you have best desktop PC but nothing on hdd, no OS…so, what all that hardver is…junk in box(figurative)?

By: spookmineer

spookmineer — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 20:12:44 +0000

While not being a “single” computer, it is amazing that Folding at Home (distributed computing) reached 1 PetaFlop (1000 TeraFlops) a few months ago (with the help of PS3’s no less).

By: Vision

Vision — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:33:58 +0000

@3
it’s just the first phase, in the second phase the “computer” will have a capacity of 250 TeraFLOPS

@9
can you imagine it running with Windows ???
HeCtoR is running some kind of Unix operation system (Unicos)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HECToR

By: David

David — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 14:39:58 +0000

“I think that burning the money would be better than giving it to African money traps. This will at least be of use to the people that earnt/deserve it, not infection-riddled monkeys.”

Thank You! Faild States and Failed Economies is the problem with the 3rd World. I’ve went to college with Civil Engineers, (who have gone to Africa to build public works) that tell me they had built a structure multiple times, because the people there would burn them down! These people don’t want to be helped!

What needs to established is the Political Will!

By: Liranan

Liranan — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 12:30:46 +0000

NSA (nr 15) and the Echelon project also doesn’t exist. All those damned lies spread on the internet . Now I’m going to kill myself because of all the ignorent people on the planet and because the CIA, NCMorons and the idiots at the NSA don’t use Dual Cores, Quad Cores, triple 9800’s and 4×150GB Raptors, paired with 2×2GB PC8800 Mushkin, in a lovely Antec P1 case. We mustn’t forget some liquid nitrogen and we’re all set to go spying on people.

Proof that what I said is all true and to support your statement:

http://www.ncoic.com/echelon.htm
http://jya.com/echelon-dc.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON

Oh Noes, the European Unionz knowz it!!

dgd Thank you for your constructive post, unlike the poster after you.

P.S. NSA thank you for making yourself look like the idiot that you are by posting the nonsense that you did.

By: tucker

tucker — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 08:59:01 +0000

i want his ass

By: SarahConnor

SarahConnor — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 08:23:49 +0000

WE MUST DESTROY HECTOR

By: allban

allban — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 08:03:26 +0000

http://www.top500.org/system/8819

Then Swedens “Försvarets Radio Anstalt” ~ Defense Radio Agency is a bit more funny. Reading internettraffic from and to Sweden holding nr 5.. THATS a waste..

By: Bj

Bj — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 06:14:15 +0000

Oh and one more thing @ dgd..you are so full of crap…if it was that simple they would just do what u have suggested…people are not going to spend millions of $$ to do a task a couple thousound nvidia graphics cards could do (as u have so blantently suggested they could)

excuse english not to good

By: Bj

Bj — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 06:03:36 +0000

LoL some of yall need tin foil hats i say…lol google – nsa colaboraiting to toake over the universe roflmao… too many bourne fils for you sunshine

By: eitanois

eitanois — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 01:16:07 +0000

@91 – Foxx

Sorry, but it is Moore law only apply to hardware.

In 2035 we will have a full 3D interface, just imagine the

events to handle, no time no create a AI, just crappy programs

with lots of patches like Windows.