Supercomputer That Makes Universes

[Lil' ½ Dead]

Next month, one of the world's fastest supercomputers will run the largest, most complex universe simulation ever attempted.

Mira is powered by 768,000 cores spread across 48 blade racks. It has eight petaflops of processing power, and at its peak theoretical performance is able to perform 10 quadrillion floating point operations per second. Oh, and it has nearly a petabyte of RAM.

The simulation will cram more than 12 billion years worth of cosmic evolution into just two weeks, tracking trillions of particles as they slowly coalesce into the web-like structure that defines our universe on a large scale. Cosmic simulations have been around for decades, but the technology needed to run a trillion-particle simulation only recently became available.

http://www.theatlantic.com/technolog...verses/262639/

[Solara2xb]

WOW!! That just looks crazy!!

[criss_glitch666]

But can it run Crysis......

[PoLoMoTo]

Bull sh*t I wanna see benches :P

[calemus]

imagine the budget...
and the gui,,whats the screen layout like???

[Lil' ½ Dead]

"10 quadrillion floating point operations per second"

[TCC]

If only my budget was 1/10 of what they have... So much top equipment!

[PoLoMoTo]

If only my budget was 1/10 of what they have... So much top equipment!

With one tenth of their budget you'd probably be able to get the most powerful privately owned computer in the world.....

[TCC]

With one tenth of their budget you'd probably be able to get the most powerful privately owned computer in the world.....

I know... It would be wonderful lol I wouldnt mind at all.

[SamCR3]

Not impressed until they overclock it.

[Adham]

But can it run Crysis......

u bet your arse it does! haha

[PoLoMoTo]

Not impressed until they overclock it.

Just imagine having to set the same clocks and voltages on thousands of rigs and if you screw it up when the universe crashes, it's your fault XD

[SamCR3]

Just imagine having to set the same clocks and voltages on thousands of rigs and if you screw it up when the universe crashes, it's your fault XD

I'm used to everything being my fault. I'm married.

[PoLoMoTo]

I'm used to everything being my fault. I'm married.

LOLZ

[Adham]

I'm used to everything being my fault. I'm married.

i guess you do bro, keep calm and breath

[Lurkinwilli]

crazyy! thats nuts on what they are planing to do. just do a google search on upcoming supercomputer strains.