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Inside NASA's World-Class Supercomputer Center

Posted April 26, 2010 7:54 AM

From CNET News.com:

f you're a materials scientist at NASA's Glenn Research Center, or an engineer at the Johnson or Marshall Space Centers studying Space Shuttle flow-control valves, or any one of countless others in the agency needing a supercomputer, there's really just one place to go. That place is the advanced supercomputing facility at the Ames Research Center here, the home of Pleiades, NASA's flagship computer, a monster of a machine that, with a current rating of 973 teraflops--or 973 trillion floating point operations per second--is today ranked the sixth-most powerful supercomputer on Earth.

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Re: Inside NASA's World-Class Supercomputer Center

04/26/2010 11:39 AM

if the speed of the world of computering is outperforming Moores law, do they really know how fast these computers are at the time, or is it only a reflection of history or a best guess?

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04/26/2010 12:19 PM

It can be measured.

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04/27/2010 12:46 PM

Impressive, but if it was based on AMD chips instead of Intel, it could be in the top five super computers, of which four of them are AMD based, the other one is proprietary based. Get with the program NASA, you want speed, use the right CPUs and less power to boot. The 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 5th fastest machines are AMD.

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