Jaguar, the World’s Fastest Supercomputer (2009)

Filed in: Technology — November 26th, 2009

Jaguar Cray XT5 is the current world’s fastest supercomputer with performance of 1,759 teraflops.

jaguar, world fastest supercomputer
The fastest: Jaguar Cray XT5 supercomputer

Do you know that the World’s Top 1 supercomputer in 2004 “only” has a performance of 35.86 teraflops? Jaguar is 50 times faster!

The Jaguar supercomputer has 37,367 six-core AMD Opteron 2.6 GHz processos (not Intel), 300 terabyte of RAM, 10 petabyte of disc space. It runs on custom version of SUSE Linux.

The whole supercomputer setup takes up 409 m&sup2, which is larger than an NBA basketball court!

The computing power of the Jaguar is used by scientists to run simulations of climate changes and effects, supernovas, and a number of other compute-intensive applications.

[via Pingdom]

IF you have access to the world’s fastest supercomputer, what kind of task would you assign to it?

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  • http://beesz.com KevinChong

    Is it the Jaguar is a brand of car ? Or the brand of Supercomputer ? I want to make a capture a picture of UFO. What do your task ?

  • http://theaminos.blogspot.com/ theaminos

    i dont have a basketball court to fit in the Jaguar.

  • fazlee

    Twitter & Facebook

  • http://www.facebook.com/xennwong Xendee Wong

    tera? wow, tht means 10 to the power of 12=1000000000000~ wat an amazing speed. But the super computer can't compete with the speed of light that is 10 to the power of 23, if they can double that amount, it can be the ultimate ultimate super duper computers.

  • http://www.misterhobbes.net/ Ngan

    you know, I always wanted to play strategy games on these super computer. Imagine playing warcraft on a super super super super huge maps with thousands and thousands of players.

    command and conquer based on a 1:10 scale world map with players from every country… awesome.

  • http://beesz.com KevinChong

    Ha.ha.ha, Good idea indeed. It can make a speed faster to use in online game to connect more player in the game.

  • nano28

    I will organize world championship gaming for sure..haha.

  • http://free-popular-mp3-download.blogspot.com/ lanceer

    OMG it's so cool. I want to make real 4d games that absolutely magnificent as i wouldn't ever play other games on the field.

  • http://beesz.com KevinChong

    Good Idea indeed. I will look forward the world championship game to easy connect with TV watcher.

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