PS3真是有夠屌、有夠強！

terry · 發表於 2008-6-10 19:23:00

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IBM使用Sony PS3的Cell晶片(IBM, Sony,Toshiba共同研發)為部分核心零件，
組成超級電腦，每秒運算速度超過1000兆，打破世界紀錄！！
此超級電腦美國防部已下訂單，
將用來計算核爆、監控全球暖化與氣象變化...

Supercomputer built with Sony PlayStation parts smashes previous speed record

A US military supercomputer built with parts made for a Sony PlayStation has set a new speed record by processing more than twice as many calculations per second as the previous fastest machine.

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Chips designed for use in the PlayStation 3 were used in the RoadrunnerIBM's $133m (£67m) Roadrunner computer can carry out 1.026 quadrillion - just over a thousand trillion - calculations per second.

Later this year it will be installed at a US government laboratory where it will be used to monitor nuclear weapons.

It will also be used to study climate change by allowing scientists to test warming models with higher accuracy.

"This is equivalent to the four-minute mile of supercomputing," said Jack Dongarra, a computer scientist at the University of Tennessee.

"This gives us a window into a whole new way of computing. We can look at phenomena we have never seen before," said Michael R Anastasio, a physicist who is director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in New Mexico where the computer will be based.

The previous fastest supercomputer, IBM's Blue Gene/L, is also at LANL.

It was recently upgraded and runs at a speed of 478.2 trillions of calculations per second.

Despite being more than twice as fast, the Roadrunner uses fewer chips than Blue Gene.

This is because the new computer is a so-called "hybrid" design, using both conventional supercomputer processors and the powerful "Cell" chip which was designed for use in the PlayStation 3.

Roadrunner's record-breaking speed was confirmed during tests in New York before it is taken apart and moved to the laboratory.

When it is reassembled and ready to use to will be kept in 288 refrigerator-sized cases connected by 57 miles of fibre optic cable.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...eed-record.html