Supercomputers are always in the race for faster speeds. Cray Inc’s XT4 Jaguar is now dubbed as the fastest on Earth, which boasts a speed 1.64 petaflops at peak of processing power.
This Jaguar has an amazing, 45,000 Quad-core Opteron processors which make up a total of 180,000 processing cores. And it’s loaded with huge memory size of 362 terabytes and a 10 petabytes of hard disk array as the permanent storage.
By comparing the Jaguar with the Blue Water supercomputer that we’d reported a couple of months back, the specs carried by the Jaguar seem not to be the coolest on Earth. The BlueWater was reported as the first petascaled supercomputer on Earth, which has 2 petaflops of processing speed, memory and hard drives are on the peta-figures. So, Blue Water is apparently ahead of Jaguar in terms of processing speed and memory size.
via [yahootechblog]
September 22nd, 2009 at 6:47 am
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