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One quadrillion operations a second

I think it would be more gangsta' if I call it the Petaflopsta instead. Is that okay? And god, that thing is a work of beauty. 😀
 
Here is a pic of this bad boy in action- 🙂

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I guess it's ok for email and surfing the web.....
Maybe do a little photo editing.
Just your typical grandmas PC.
 
Unorthodox said:
I guess it's ok for email and surfing the web.....
Maybe do a little photo editing.
Just your typical grandmas PC.
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Ya, it is definitely not up to spec for performing any intesive tasks. 😛 😀
 
Mr_Brightside_@ said:
"non-bonding interactions between atoms"
i wrote my grade 11 chemistry test today
what does this mean?
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My guess is that they're going to take a bunch of simulated atoms in a simulated area and simulate them bouncing around, vibrating, running into each other, etc.
 
Mr_Brightside_@ said:
"non-bonding interactions between atoms"
i wrote my grade 11 chemistry test today
what does this mean?
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Things like coulomb and van Der Waals forces. They're interested in how proteins move and shape, and so they are interested in electromagnetic forces not of a sufficient intensity and short range to lead to a bond state change, but forces which act over a longer range and manipulate the shape and motion of the proteins. I think that's what's meant. Basically I think it means that you can make "weak field" approximations because you assume nothing gets so close or so intense as to cause bonding, and make some simplifications about the internal electromagnetic characteristics of the molecule....

But I think the more important question is...DOES IT MOO???? 😱 😉 😀
 
Counterfit said:
Yeah, but how fast does it run Quake?
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The only truly important thing to know. 😉 😀



I guess that it would do alright..... 😉

mkrishnan said:
But I think the more important question is...DOES IT MOO???? 😱 😉 😀
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It makes a moo soooooo loud that you can hear it halfway around the world. In other words, it puts the MacBook to shame. 😉
 
Counterfit said:
Yeah, but how fast does it run Quake?
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Probably pretty rubbish. It specialises in numberical stimulations of molecules bouncing around interacting with each other, and not on ray tracing or other graphics work. It's not a general purpose computer.

More details at

www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=MDGRAPE-3+Protein+Explorer

Typically, it might have a smaller supercomputer used as the front end and to allocate resourses. The end user remotely logs onto that front end to load data and run stimulations, possibly through a black and white CLI. Systems like this often run on some flavour of Unix, and rarely have graphical interfaces as there are only a few users, who have all received decades of training...

A beowulf cluster of these, now that'd be something 🙂

xoxo ..RedTomato..
 
ReanimationLP said:
Screw Quake, how fast does it do in Doom 3? 😛
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You all must remember, processor power only goes so far. What really matters is the video card in that thing.

I wonder if it has SLI... lol
 
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