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One quadrillion operations a second

The computing power comes from processors called MDGrape-3. Anyone else think MDGrape-3 has a terrible ring to it as the name for something that powers the world's most powerful publicly known computer? 😛
 
celebrian23 said:
you mean it won't fit in my dorm room? 😛 gosh darn it!
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Yep, you will not be able to fit it in your doorm celebrian23. 😀

whooleytoo said:
Really? Sheesh.. what terrible design. I bet they don't even sell two of them...
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Nope, this is probably the only one that they will manage to sell. 😉

MacFan25863 said:
These guys are stupid for buying a Rev A system.
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True, the computer probably has a whine, buzz, and heat problems with it. 🙄 😉 😀

gekko513 said:
The computing power comes from processors called MDGrape-3. Anyone else think MDGrape-3 has a terrible ring to it as the name for something that powers the world's most powerful publicly known computer?
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Good point- it does have a terrible ring to it.
 
Mr_Brightside_@ said:
"non-bonding interactions between atoms"
i wrote my grade 11 chemistry test today
what does this mean?
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I think "non-bonding" means these are not classic chenical reactions where valence electrons make and break bonds but they are looking at interactions involving the vonderwall forces

Some of the questions they they'd like to answer are along the lines of how some protein might interact with a cell wall. It's very complex because the shape of a huge molicule might change as it interqcters and when the shape changes then it's characteristics change. I am far from and experts but it sounds like solving a big pile of diff EQs which might trans late to a big pile of matrix operations which means a lot of very orderly floating point operations just the sort of thing you can do with a distributed computer like this.
 
gekko513 said:
The computing power comes from processors called MDGrape-3. Anyone else think MDGrape-3 has a terrible ring to it as the name for something that powers the world's most powerful publicly known computer? 😛
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😛

I missed that. I'm trying to think of some double entendre of "Empty Grapetree", but in any case it can't be good.
 
what kind of graphics card do you think this has? if it can play doom 3 then i'll definetly get it!!
 
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