does not break down leaves, announcing his next monster of war. The
Energy Dept. and IBM are working on the realization of a future
machine frankensteinienne, it will have 20 petaflops, or 20 million
billion calculations per second.
Named Sequoia, the delivery company of this little miracle around 2011
and is expected to push its first Boot in the premises of the Lawrence
Livermore National Laboratory, just for the department of energy.
To give an order of comparison, IBM announcement that Sequoia is the
largest calculation capacity and fastest jet data that represent the
power of 2 million laptops. Strange to say, without specifying the
capacity of the reference model.
That we are also reassuring, Sequoia will be very economical in energy
with 6 megawatts per year, equivalent to 500 homes, said the IBM, as
much as in space, it will occupy 96 racks refrigerated, for an area
total of 318 square meters accurately Reuters.
Its characteristics are known: 1.6 million cores, 1.6 petabyte of
memory, and 98,304 nodes in 96 racks. Where are the Gamers?
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