Look Out NEC Earth Simulator.

[bejiita]

NEC Earth Simulator F3&R my Power!

Hmm. I guess I could use faster bouncing cards in solitaire.

[Caustic Saint]

Key phrase:

Soon to be in prototype, the chip may be on the market within a year, ClearSpeed said.

It doesn't exist yet. Reminds me of the Bitboys graphics chip. Hyped for a long time and never even saw silicon.

I'll go with the VA Tech 1100 Mac G5 cluster. Half as fast as the Earth Simulator for about 1/200th of the cost.



Looks just as cool too.

[Taro Toporific]

NEC Earth SimulatorF3&R my Power.

IBM Claims New Supercomputer As Fastest
Fri, Nov. 14, 2003
Associated Press
NEW YORK - It's only the size of a dishwasher, but it's crammed with 1,024 microprocessors, housed in an innovative slanted cabinet and can perform a whopping 2 trillion calculations per second, ranking it as one of the world's fastest supercomputers. But this computing wonder, being shown off Friday by IBM Corp., is only 1/128th of the finished product. When Blue Gene/L, as the supercomputer is known, is delivered to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory just over a year from now, it will easily rank as the world's fastest supercomputer. Its 130,000 processors will be able to perform up to 360 trillion calculations per second, or 360 teraflops.
The top machine now, the Earth Simulator in Japan, has 5,120 processors and can do about 35 teraflops.
And the Earth Simulator is the size of four tennis courts - eight times bigger than the projected size of Blue Gene/L...