OT Supercomputing Superpowers (Geeky Facts :)

Soniclight wrote on 6/6/2010, 1:14 PM
Watching some of you discussing computers and how well versed you are in such matters, I thought that you might enjoy this latest annual summary. It's an interactive map at the BBC where you can view the global treemap by speed, OS, app, country, processor, or manufacturer.

The thing that was interesting to me was that while PC and Mac platforms are so consumer and business omniscient, they don't stand a chance against Linux in terms of supercomputing. Probably has something to do with open source vs. proprietary and flexibility.

Oh, another interesting thing is that the #2 supercomputer is (surprise/no surprise)...
Chinese.

Enjoy.

Comments

apit34356 wrote on 6/6/2010, 6:11 PM
Linux can be reduced to a minimum memory footprint and has less OS software layers than MS or OSX, etc,,,, but also permits better "sharing of memory resources" than MS or OSX can ever dream of. Plus the cost would be massive and performance hit per core would be a killer to any supercomputer config.
musicvid10 wrote on 6/6/2010, 7:42 PM
Do you think one of those petaflop models would preview and edit AVCHD without stuttering in Vegas?

J/K guys, really.
;?)
A. Grandt wrote on 6/6/2010, 10:10 PM
"Do you think one of those petaflop models would preview and edit AVCHD without stuttering in Vegas?"

He he, it might. But I can't remember where I saw it, but aren't Vegas limited to 8 cores? Or is that just the render?
farss wrote on 6/7/2010, 1:13 AM
If you mouse over New Zealand you'll see that it's WETA Digital that puts them on the map. That said rendering CGI is a totally different problem to rendering video.

Bob.
drmathprog wrote on 6/7/2010, 4:24 AM
Do you think one of those petaflop models would preview and edit AVCHD without stuttering in Vegas?

Can pigs fly? ;-)
Soniclight wrote on 6/7/2010, 9:01 AM
I'll be a dreaming pig: Just a couple of peta FLOPS and a few hundred cores under my hood would suit me just fine. I'd consider that flying :)