World's most powerful computer

panzerkwpanzerkw New York City
edited June 2003 in Hardware
I didn't know weather forecasting required such powerful computers, but apparently a machine capable of 5 trillion operations a second isn't enough. This one will eventually reach a speed of 100 trillion calculations per second. I wonder if those mainframe techs ever get to game on those machines. wheeee.....:eek:

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  • ClutchClutch North Carolina New
    edited June 2003
    The deal is expected to cost about $200 million over nine years. :banghead:
  • panzerkwpanzerkw New York City
    edited June 2003
    Must be an Intel machine
  • danball1976danball1976 Wichita Falls, TX
    edited June 2003
    Maybe its an Opteron system.
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited June 2003
    nah... the opeteron would only be $100 million
    gotta be xeons or P4s :D
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited June 2003
    so, are they gonna fold on it, or what?
  • Red-DawnRed-Dawn Been kidnapped and being held hostage in Edinburgh
    edited June 2003
    heatindex = 16.923 + 0.185212*t + 5.37941*rh -
    0.100254*t*rh + (0.941695e-2)*t2 + (0.728898e-2)*rh2 + (0.345372e-3)*t2*rh -
    (0.814971e-3)*t*rh2 + (0.102102e-4)*t2*rh2 - (0.38646e-4)*t3 + (0.291583e-4)*rh3 +
    (0.142721e-5)*t3*rh + (0.197483e-6)*t*rh3 - (0.218429e-7)*t3*rh2 + (0.843296e-9)*t2*rh3 -
    (0.481975e-10)*t3*rh3

    taken from here

    theres just a few there but i've seen larger more head fryin equations for the weather elsewhere
  • danball1976danball1976 Wichita Falls, TX
    edited June 2003
    That seems like a rather complex equation. Wonder how long it would take to calculate that on a regular computer
  • panzerkwpanzerkw New York City
    edited June 2003
    Doesn't look like it would take very long actually. It's not like the computer has to take into effect several factors which could affect alot of other stuff (like it would have to when being used for forecast hurricanes) and calculate all the possibilities.
  • danball1976danball1976 Wichita Falls, TX
    edited June 2003
    Such as how big the numbers being input are.
  • panzerkwpanzerkw New York City
    edited June 2003
    I don't think it's so much the size of the numbers that would trip it up, but just that there are so many numbers that need to be crunched. I'm assuming this computer would also have to model and extrapolate possible future activity with the current data. I'd imagine to be pretty intensive operations, especially when it'd have to display all the different possibilities and how WHY a possible result would be possible mathematically.
  • Red-DawnRed-Dawn Been kidnapped and being held hostage in Edinburgh
    edited June 2003
    even when it works out all the possible outcomes for the data its fed it was to work out which senario is most likely to occur based on previous weather observations.
  • leishi85leishi85 Grand Rapids, MI Icrontian
    edited June 2003
    Red Dawn said
    even when it works out all the possible outcomes for the data its fed it was to work out which senario is most likely to occur based on previous weather observations.

    then what does those weather guy do??
    damn weather guys
  • panzerkwpanzerkw New York City
    edited June 2003
    Nowadays, I think most of them spend their time taking all the data and putting it together a presentation for the news forecast that day. Basically making sense of the tons of info and condesing it for normal people to understand.

    And, making all those cute smily face suns and other crap.
  • dNA3DdNA3D Brunei
    edited June 2003
    Would be cool if they used that machine to fold for a team currently in 7th place.

    :respect::fold:
  • WuGgaRoOWuGgaRoO Not in the shower Icrontian
    edited June 2003
    man...200 million dollars and they still cant get it righ huh?
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