Yes, an impressive supercomputer. I think it is much more difficult to use a supercomputer with a trillion operations per second than a huge cluster of ordinary computers, as you can find them in Google's data centers.
-J. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marcus G. Daniels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, July 20, 2008 7:49 PM Subject: Re: [FRIAM] REPOST: The meaning of "inner". > For comparison, LANL Roadrunner has about 5 trillion transistors for the > CPUs (~13000 PowerXCell 8i processors and ~6500 dual core Opterons) and > another 800 trillion for RAM (~100 TB). > ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
