It's going to do what's in the name...flop

Yeah, but can it run Crysis?

Adam, Great comment on Crysis

I played it at the WSVG in Louisville, KY a few weeks ago on a top of the line system, and it was still laggy and slow...I wouldn't mind getting my courious little hands on this super-computer!

Schweet! I bet the cards would come screaming down in no time when I win at Solitaire!

What frame rate does it post for Doom2?

They better watch out, pulling that much power, the feds are gonna think they're growing weed.

"Your quad-core XPS tower just lot a lot less impressive"

you guys realllllly reallly need to proof-read before posting, just a thought. otherwise, man I'm drooling.....

Only 200 bucks for a million petaflops? Where do I sign up?

Yeah. That 400 mil over 5 years is pretty hefty, and a most of that is just power and cooling.

The computer stuff is actually the easiest part. Its finding a nice cool place with enough power to put it that is the hardest part.

Ironically, those pre 80s computer rooms are back in vogue now.

such as simulating global warming and playing Crysis at 60fps.

well done

folding@home with ps3's combined is really close to this mathematical achievment but in a single box? thats crazy

not to split hairs but- "just lot a lot less impressive"???

I bet most of the $400 million will go to purchase carbon offsets for this monster. Al Gore is dancing a little jig as we speak...

What will they be using this supercomputer for that they cannot do with their current whatever supercomputer?

$200M to build, $400M to maintain and run for 5 year life time?

Yep, sounds like the goverment running it.

Sad part is, by the time is operational, it's already obsolete.

So what do they do after 5 years?
e-Bay it?

They're going to make it play Tic Tac Toe against itself so it can learn that nuclear war is Bad.

rofl@SUPERBAD!!

It'll still take five minutes to boot up Vista.

a thousand trilion parts is what it'll become after making contact with a Blendtec blender :)

Yes, but can these "super computers" play Doom?
Touche.

BUT, can it play video?

Why they dont just use 10 ps3´s ...jk and will it blend?

Build $200 million petaflop supercomputer? A million petaflop supercomputer costs only $200? That's increditable.

@im_here_for_the_food: Same stuff; faster. The GameCube can do 1080p, after all, at 1 FPS.

Certain computations simply cannot be done in a smaller computer, such as an accurate model of the world's weather systems. If you don't have the whole world in 100 yard-square calls, your model is useless because all the interesting stuff is happening below your level of detail.

Others are simply not practical if it's easier and cheaper to run an analog sim (i.e., build something to see if it works) than a computer sim. If you can simulate an F-22 Raptor, however, you can prototype much, much faster in a computer than in a wind tunnel.

Wow thats alot of power... but what kinda screen can I hook this baby up to???

It has to AT LEAST do HD... I hope the graphics isnt done ONBOARD... cause then their being really cheap...

Many people don't seem to understand that these aren't computers like we have. Computers like these usually run completely custom operating systems, and the people that run it are people that programmed it or people extensively trained. So no, it won't play Doom or Crysis at all. It also won't output to a display. There are usually displays on the towers for diagnostics, but otherwise it's controlled in a seperate area, by less powerful computers designed just to send messages to the "master" And there is no internet for obvious reasons. This is a true computer. It exists to COMPUTE.

Multivac, can entropy ever be reversed?

Why don't they just wait a few months for the photochirals computers and networks?

That Supercomputer will be located in Champaign-Urbana, which is in east central Illinois, not Chicago.

This is the same location of Yahoo's newest data center too, but the two are in no way related.

Ah, it's IBM... Lenovo will probably build it out of cheap chinese parts, and then they'll brand it IBM...

How much faster will this one download porn now?

In all seriousness, have they already reached the end of the line with Deep Blue? I can understand wanting to have the fastest computer on earth as a leading manufacturer of consumer microchips, but what good is all this power if the only thing that its ever used for is Chess and pissing for distance?

But it's no Deep Thought!

@Gtaste8:
shall we ask it the answer to life?

@ninjagin: 3,656 fps

@VR4Z06GT
Sarcasm owns you.

@Duffasaurus: What's the point of that then if it can't play games? Computers are meant to play games!

I wonder how well it would run f@h

@SOLOSALSA: (Laughs) I just read that again recently. Good job.