Dechristo Posted June 9, 2008 Share Posted June 9, 2008 Roadrunner, which consumes roughly three megawatts of power, or about the power required by a large suburban shopping center, requires three separate programming tools because it has three types of processors. Programmers have to figure out how to keep all of the 116,640 processor cores in the machine occupied simultaneously in order for it to run effectively. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STP Posted June 9, 2008 Share Posted June 9, 2008 Roadrunner, which consumes roughly three megawatts of power, or about the power required by a large suburban shopping center, requires three separate programming tools because it has three types of processors. Programmers have to figure out how to keep all of the 116,640 processor cores in the machine occupied simultaneously in order for it to run effectively. "The next thousandfold goal is the exaflop, which is a quintillion calculations per second, followed by the zettaflop, the yottaflop and the xeraflop." ...and then by the whatthefuckaflop. Money is no object. Dis computa wil figure ouht da derivatives markit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G-spotter Posted June 9, 2008 Share Posted June 9, 2008 It wouldn't be the first time you were a flop at petting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sobo Posted June 9, 2008 Share Posted June 9, 2008 Roadrunner, which consumes roughly three megawatts of power, or about the power required by a large suburban shopping center, requires three separate programming tools because it has three types of processors. Programmers have to figure out how to keep all of the 116,640 processor cores in the machine occupied simultaneously in order for it to run effectively. "The next thousandfold goal is the exaflop, which is a quintillion calculations per second, followed by the zettaflop, the yottaflop and the xeraflop." ...and then by the whatthefuckaflop. Which will ultimately result in... the wefuckedupaflop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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