What’s The World’s Fastest Supercomputer In 2009? Jaguar?
Interesting Stuff, Wonderful ThingsIf you think that Intel was always the fastest. Think again, not this round. This round AMD is the Host. Jaguar supercomputer has 37,376 six-core AMD Opteron 2.6 GHz processors. That’s mean Jaguar has 224,256 of processor cores. 300 terabyte of ram, 10 petabyte of disk space running on custom version of SUSE Linux.
One petaflops is the equivalent of one thousand trillion operations per second, which means this supercomputer is capable of a theoretical maximum performance of 2,330,000,000,000,000 operations per second. The reason Jaguar claimed the top spot in this latest test is a recent upgrade from quad-core processors to six-core processors, effectively increasing the total number of processor cores by 50%.
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