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louvoodoo |
Monday, June 09, 2008 the day SKYNET was revealed
Jun 9 2008, 9:15 PM EDT
This is blowing my mind right now. It is just crazy... You say "Turk" I say Turek. As in David Turek, vice president of IBM's supercomputing programs. My God, this is just too unreal. We are all doomed!To read the full story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080609/ap_on_hi_te/fastest_computer By H. JOSEF HEBERT, Associated Press Writer Mon Jun 9, 4:12 PM ET WASHINGTON - Scientists unveiled the world's fastest supercomputer on Monday, a $100 million machine that for the first time has performed 1,000 trillion calculations per second in a sustained exercise. The technology breakthrough was accomplished by engineers from the Los Alamos National Laboratory and IBM Corp. on a computer to be used primarily on nuclear weapons work, including simulating nuclear explosions. ... "The computer is a speed demon. It will allow us to solve tremendous problems," said Thomas D'Agostino, head of the National Nuclear Security Administration, which oversees nuclear weapons research and maintains the warhead stockpile. ... Some elements of the Roadrunner can be traced back to popular video games, said David Turek, vice president of IBM's supercomputing programs. In some ways, he said, it's "a very souped-up Sony PlayStation 3." .... Turek said the computer in a two-hour test on May 25 achieved a "petaflop" speed of sustained performance, something no other computer had ever done. It did so again in several real applications involving classified nuclear weapons work this past weekend. ... Along with other supercomputers, it will be key "to assure the safety and security of our (weapons) stockpile," said D'Agostino. With its extraordinary speed it will be able to simulate the performances of a warhead and help weapons scientists track warhead aging, he said. ... 1 out of 1 found this valuable. Do you? |
TeamConnor |
1. RE: Monday, June 09, 2008 the day SKYNET was revealed
Jun 9 2008, 10:12 PM EDT
wow
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Gargoyle123 |
2. RE: Monday, June 09, 2008 the day SKYNET was revealed
Jun 10 2008, 6:06 AM EDT
And which dude is dump enough to believe that milary guys all aver the world aren't looking for something like Skynet??Think about it. There is only that minor issue witch destroying the Human race. Everything else about Skynet and the Terminators could have come from a wet dream of one of those military guys .... Computer power is not the problem ..... let someone write the code for a real AI. Then we can wory about it .... Do you find this valuable? |
nmrx105 |
3. RE: Monday, June 09, 2008 the day SKYNET was revealed
Jun 10 2008, 10:11 AM EDT
"This is blowing my mind right now. It is just crazy... You say "Turk" I say Turek. As in David Turek, vice president of IBM's supercomputing programs. My God, this is just too unreal. We are all doomed!skynet my already be here, this is called the roadrunner computer , its made of parts from the play station 3 and it takes 2 hours to think and do math problems, while the original super computer, would take 1500 years. Do you find this valuable? |
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nmrx105 |
4. RE: Monday, June 09, 2008 the day SKYNET was revealed
Jun 10 2008, 10:21 AM EDT
"skynet my already be here, this is called the roadrunner computer , its made of parts from the play station 3 and it takes 2 hours to think and do math problems, while the original super computer, would take 1500 years."this might be the turk Do you find this valuable? |
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nmrx105 |
5. RE: Monday, June 09, 2008 the day SKYNET was revealed
Jun 10 2008, 10:23 AM EDT
"this might be the turk"try looking up john tittor its amazing on what he says. Do you find this valuable? |
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Modron |
6. RE: Monday, June 09, 2008 the day SKYNET was revealed
Jun 10 2008, 1:41 PM EDT
It's fast, but I don't know that we're seeing "signs of life" quite yet.
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FrenchfanofTSCC2 |
7. RE: Monday, June 09, 2008 the day SKYNET was revealed
Jun 10 2008, 1:51 PM EDT
you reall y Fanatic guy i think,its just a hasard ! i think so,i hope you wrong !
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nmrx105 |
8. RE: Monday, June 09, 2008 the day SKYNET was revealed
Jun 10 2008, 1:59 PM EDT
"you reall y Fanatic guy i think,its just a hasard ! i think so,i hope you wrong !"it was all on the news last night. Do you find this valuable? |
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nmrx105 |
9. RE: Monday, June 09, 2008 the day SKYNET was revealed
Jun 10 2008, 2:06 PM EDT
At 3:30 a.m. on May 26, 2008, Memorial Day, the "Roadrunner" supercomputer exceeded a sustained speed of 1 petaflop/s, or 1 million billion calculations per second. The sustained performance makes Roadrunner more than twice as fast as the current number 1 system on the TOP500 list. The best sustained performance to date is 74.5% efficiency, 1.026 petaflop/s. "Petaflop/s" is computer jargon—peta signifying the number 1 followed by 15 zeros (sometimes called a quadrillion) and flop/s meaning "double-precision floating point operations per second." Los Alamos held the fastest supercomputer title in 1993 with the Thinking Machines CM-5, and inaugurated the supercomputer era, assisting in the development of the Cray-1 in 1976. The Laboratory and IBM go all the way back to the first card-programmable calculators, used at Los Alamos in 1949. Los Alamos also housed serial number 1 of the IBM 704 in 1956. The Roadrunner supercomputer, developed by IBM in partnership with the Laboratory and the National Nuclear Security Administration, uses commercially available hardware, including aspects of commercial game console and graphics technologies. Because of its off-the-shelf components, the computer costs significantly less than a one-of-a-kind machine. It also uses a Linux operating system. Do you find this valuable? |
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nmrx105 |
10. RE: Monday, June 09, 2008 the day SKYNET was revealed
Jun 10 2008, 2:07 PM EDT
The secret to its record-breaking performance is a unique hybrid design. Each compute node in this cluster consists of two AMD OpteronTM dual-core processors plus four PowerXCell 8iTM processors used as computational accelerators. The accelerators used in Roadrunner are a special IBM-developed variant of the Cell processor used in the Sony PlayStation® 3. The node-attached Cell accelerators are what make Roadrunner different than typical clusters. The Lab and IBM have been working on Roadrunner since 2006, but collaboration on Cell dates back to 2002. The first phase of the project included delivery of an initial Opteron-only cluster that operates at a speed of 71 teraflop/s. This initial system has been in full production at Los Alamos for almost a year, and Laboratory researchers are using this machine for classified weapons applications. The full-scale Roadrunner machine operates more than 10 times faster than the current installed system. Phase 2 of the Roadrunner project was completed in October 2007. Two external assessments, one by NNSA headquarters and one by an independent team of high performance computing experts, evaluated the machine's potential use for Laboratory applications, the Laboratory's ability to successfully manage the computing system, IBM's ability to deliver the product, and whether computer programs could be adapted to the new system. Do you find this valuable? |
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nmrx105 |
11. RE: Monday, June 09, 2008 the day SKYNET was revealed
Jun 10 2008, 2:08 PM EDT
Based on the positive outcome of the assessments, the Laboratory and NNSA decided to pursue the final phase of the Roadrunner project. The powerful cluster of nodes will process information enabling the Laboratory to use Roadrunner for advanced physics and predictive simulations of complex scientific processes. Weapons science applications that can be processed by Roadrunner are applicable to all three of the U.S. Department of Energy weapons laboratories. The machine will also be well equipped to tackle the intricacies of modeling processes, ranging from the biomolecular to the cosmological. In addition, Los Alamos intends to purchase additional Roadrunner resources to support open science and technology applications. The full-scale Roadrunner system, named in honor of New Mexico's speedy state bird, broke the performance record at IBM's Poughkeepsie, New York, facility. The full machine will be moved to Los Alamos beginning in July and housed in the Nicholas Metropolis Center for Modeling and Simulation. The first computing applications are expected to begin running on the machine in January 2009. The cost of all phases of the Roadrunner project is approximately $120 million. More than 200 Laboratory employees have been involved in this effort. For more information about Roadrunner at Los Alamos National Laboratory, see the Roadrunner website at http://www.lanl.gov/roadrunner Do you find this valuable? |
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nmrx105 |
12. RE: Monday, June 09, 2008 the day SKYNET was revealed
Jun 10 2008, 2:09 PM EDT
In a test run on May 27, the Roadrunner supercomputer, built by IBM with funding from the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) for Los Alamos National Laboratory, achieved a long-sought supercomputing goal: performing more than a thousand trillion operations per second, or petaflop/s. A “flops” is an acronym meaning floating-point operations per second. One petaflop/s is 1,000 trillion operations per second. To put this into perspective, if each of the 6 billion people on earth had a hand calculator and worked together on a calculation 24 hours per day, 365 days a year, it would take 46 years to do what Roadrunner would do in one day. Roadrunner is the first supercomputer to use a hybrid processor architecture, which is based on both Opteron X64 processors from Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and the IBM Cell Broadband Engine™ (Cell BE) processing elements. Roadrunner will be housed at NNSA’s Los Alamos National Laboratory. The laboratory worked collaboratively with IBM, the manufacturer, for six years to deliver a novel computer architecture that can meet the nation’s evolving national security needs. The result has redefined the frontier of supercomputing, not only by crossing the one petaflop threshold, but also by introducing a new paradigm for the future. Roadrunner is also rated as very energy efficient (green) (performance/watt). Do you find this valuable? |
IsabellaIris |
13. RE: Monday, June 09, 2008 the day SKYNET was revealed
Oct 1 2008, 10:15 PM EDT
*singing along to this tune * "Its the end of the world as we know it....." lol.
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Coven |
14. RE: Monday, June 09, 2008 the day SKYNET was revealed
Oct 1 2008, 10:27 PM EDT
Wow, thats insane. Check this out too. http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/01/israel-thinking.html Do you find this valuable? |
MyImmortal |
15. RE: Monday, June 09, 2008 the day SKYNET was revealed
Oct 1 2008, 10:31 PM EDT
Yea. Since they are soo going to put a computer in charge of our nuclear weapons and such.. -_-
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XXThrashtera88XX |
16. RE: Monday, June 09, 2008 the day SKYNET was revealed
Oct 1 2008, 10:45 PM EDT
"Yea. Since they are soo going to put a computer in charge of our nuclear weapons and such.. -_-"They are. Machines will start to do everything! Do you find this valuable? |
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MyImmortal |
17. RE: Monday, June 09, 2008 the day SKYNET was revealed
Oct 1 2008, 10:47 PM EDT
"They are. Machines will start to do everything! "I doubt that..by the time we get any intelligence that advanced mankind would have already wiped itself out by human beings pressing the buttons and not machines.. Do you find this valuable? |
Prince_Xenu |
18. RE: Monday, June 09, 2008 the day SKYNET was revealed
Oct 1 2008, 10:51 PM EDT
"I doubt that..by the time we get any intelligence that advanced mankind would have already wiped itself out by human beings pressing the buttons and not machines.."This is just more raw processing power, its not a threat. It can't achieve singularity until the human mind is reverse engineered. Do you find this valuable? |
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Veran |
19. RE: Monday, June 09, 2008 the day SKYNET was revealed
Oct 2 2008, 10:13 AM EDT
CRAP!If FOX tries to pull the plug on TSCC then this "Skynet" will kill us all in self-defense. We're doomed! ;) Do you find this valuable? |
