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IBM's Sequoia is the world's fastest supercomputer
- amitparikh 14y agoI'm very impressed with the super-computing community's commitment to energy efficiency. Sure, we could throw more cores at the computations, but making meaningful strides to minimize energy consumption -- in parallel with the iterative improvements to computational power -- is pretty noble and prudent.
- ColinWright 14y agoIn case anyone missed it, here are a few more reports of the same story: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4125450 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4125450 (bbc.co.uk) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4125840 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4125840 (bbc.com) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4126713 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4126713 (washingtonpost.com) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4127060 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4127060 (eweek.com) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4127543 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4127543 (patexia.com) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4130027 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4130027 (llnl.gov) There are probably more ...