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NASA boosts supercomputer speed
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Posted by: Tweaker
NASA has upgraded its SGI Origin supercomputer. The supercomputer has 1,024 processors, which are being bumped up to faster MIPS R14000A microprocessors running at 600MHz, SGI said Tuesday.
NASA is using the computer to study aeronautics, earth sciences and life sciences. The upgrade boosts the system from 819.2 gigaflops--that is, 819.2 billion calculations per second--to 1228.8 gigaflops of theoretical peak speed, said John Ziebarth, chief of the advanced supercomputing division at NASA Ames Research Center. --Margaret Kane, Special to ZDNet News
Talk about speed!!
Source: ZDNet News
Posted by: redwench
gotta wonder at the 600MHz speed though. i mean, thats only 25% of whats available, and its slower than most chips sold 2 years ago. people with cpus at 600 are now replacing them as obsolete 
Posted by: justinious
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Originally posted by redwench
gotta wonder at the 600MHz speed though. i mean, thats only 25% of whats available, and its slower than most chips sold 2 years ago. people with cpus at 600 are now replacing them as obsolete
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I'd think cooling would be an issue with 2.4Ghz processors.
Posted by: Freak
I wouldn't imagine them running it with fans either, though 
Probably in some freezer 30 degrees below 0.
And maybe the 600 mHz processors are from surplus stores heh....who else would want them?
Posted by: Lord_Buttplug
Those are a different breed of cpus. At 600 mhz, they will beat most everything at 2Ghz.
Posted by: Null Actor
They are risc chips. They tend to be more powerful, even at lower mhz. Like Macs.
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