Petaflop Supercomputer

[alexander]

So yeah, Japanese have finally developed a petaflop computer:

 

http://www.newsfactor.com/news/Japan-Bests-IBM-in-Supercomputer-Stakes/story.xhtml?story_id=1220059R0ADY

 

2 things: go Japan, because they have been trying for so long to accomplish this, that is beat the US in the supercomputer market, finally.

And when are they coming out with a laptop version of that?

[Jay-qu]

:) is a peta 1000Teraflops?

[alexander]

yes, it is 3 times faster then the IBM supercomp :)

[VS Prasad]

It is unlikely to be available for desktops and laptops in the

near future.

 

Instead, you can hope for the Teraflop processor developed

by Intel India Development Center.

[alexander]

whyyy?

 

This seems a little stupid to me i mean hear me out on thid, why speed up an architecture that spends most of it's time waiting on cache (x86), when there is a beautiful architecture patented and developed by IBM, Sony and Toshiba called Cell that at 4 gigahertz and 4 cores can perform more calculations a second then a farm of quad core servers with a theoretical and reachable limit of 250Goflops per core and true paralell processing? So is it just me or would it not be more intuitive to not try to up the clock rating on an outdated architecture, but rather develop a more efficient architecture?