UF rivals fastest supercomputer in the world

He could not have got a shout-out of President Obama, but UF supercomputer, the Novo-G can be found certain things better than the supercomputer so in China.

Chinese Tianhe-1A was called "the best computer in the world"for Obama State of the Union. But the number one thing is relative, "said Herman Lam, professor of electrical engineering and computer science UF.

"It all depends on how you vote, " he said. "There is a kind of saying, "This is the best ".

Novo UF-G was not included in the TOP500 list of supercomputers International, a list of the world's fastest processors because the Chinese team is using the computer UF a different kind.

Novo-G, which means "green" is smaller and uses much less energy than other supercomputers, "said Lam. This is the computer of choice for space satellites.

What does Novo-G is different chips are used.

Lam said that engineers can use the material will not be on the way data is calculated reverse change, adapt.

Different chips allow large amounts of data are processed on a smaller computer, so it is a better fit for satellites, "he said.

Supercomputer with the interior of the satellite will not send large amounts of raw data to supercomputers on Earth. You can process the information themselves and get the results. Novo-G is also faster in DNA processing.

UF super computer can not perform some operations faster than China, but it is compact and other transactions with the same speed to make.

In a time, the U.S. and China in order to compete which country remain at the top, Lam said that supercomputers are not competitive.

But, as both teams were designed for different things, both teams have their strengths.

"For some things, yes, we can do much better, " he said

Air Force Research Laboratory, the supercomputer "Raptor "

The Air Force Research Laboratory Super Computing Resource Center organized a ceremony officially known, the new supercomputer. XE6 Cray system, called "Raptor"to Air Force F-22 fighter, has the distinction of being the largest supercomputers in the Department of Defense.

The machine has 43 712-core 2.4GHz AMD Magny Cours team, 87.7 terabytes of memory and 1.6 petabytes of usable storage space provided. Gemini Cray interconnect technology enables the computer processor at speeds of up to 16 gigabytes per second to communicate. The cabinets are controlled by temperature ECOphlex liquid cooling technology that reduces energy costs.

Raptor has a crucial role in AFRL researchers to carry out its mission. Advanced promote leader in the discovery, development and integration of military technology available to the capabilities of U.S. forces in the air system processing power for the next generation of weapon systems design and other design concepts.

The Department of Defense High Performance Computing Modernization Program meet to monitor access to the Raptor HPC to the needs of defense science and technology.

Made in China: the world's fastest computer

A scientific research center in China has built the fastest supercomputer ever and replaced the U.S. as a manufacturer of the machine faster, and praise for the rights of China as a superpower technology.

The team, as 1A, Tianhe is known, has 1.4 times the performance of the current team in a National Laboratory in Tennessee, as the standard test to measure to measure how well systems handle mathematical calculations, "said Jack Dongarra Computer Science at the University of Tennessee who maintains the official ranking of supercomputers.

Although the official list of the 500 fastest machines, which is published every six months, must be completed by Mr

Dongarra until next week, said the Chinese team "crushed the current No. 1 machine."

He added: "We will not close until Nov.1 books, but I would say it is unlikely that a system that is faster to see."

Officials from the China Center for Research, National University of Defense Technology, should be the team's performance on Thursday at a conference in Beijing.

We focus affirm its interest "in the context of the dual supervision of the Ministry of National Defence and the Ministry of Education."

The race for the interest supercomputer fastest source of national pride that solve these machines to evaluate their capacity to pay of the critical problems paying citizens by means intérêts IN domains examined as defense, energy, finance and science are combined.

Supercomputing technology found its place in the heart of the business, oil companies and use it to find gas tanks and Wall Street brokers use to automated processes super quick.

In the last ten years, the Chinese in the ranking of supercomputers have risen.

What is the world's fastest computer?

Let's start with the team sitting on your desk - the material in the day to surf the Internet have used to manage tables, creating documents, etc. Most people have something like a Pentium computer with Windows or Macintosh. A team like this can execute 100 million instructions per second. The special equipment can be twice as fast as the speed or the half.

Fastest computer in the world is much faster than that and is just across the shoulders! The human brain is an amazing computing device and the fastest at this time. Let me give you an example:

your computer starts up to the point where he "understand "one, and take dictation speech, words get in written words. You can include a speaker, you has form for about 20 minutes and the dictation still many mistakes. So 100 to process millions of instructions per second can hardly dictate.

The brain may, however, any number of speakers. He did not need training, and made no mistakes. It may even be able to understand multiple languages! And language processing part of the brain is only a small part of the whole package - the brain also process complex visual images, you control your entire body, understand design issues and new ideas. Your brain consists of around one trillion cells with 100 trillion connections between the cells. We have a rough estimate and say that you just go, 10 billion instructions per second, but it is really hard to say.

In the 2006, the ranks of supercomputing speed are the three supercomputers:

1. IBM's BlueGene/L - 360 teraflops
2. IBM's BGW - 115 teraflops
3. IBM's ASC Purple - 93 teraflops

Another supercomputer called MDGrape-3, made by Riken Japanese company, has a theoretical top speed of 1 petaflop (1 guadrillion operations per second), which is three times faster than BlueGene / L MDGrape-3 do not run, however, the official software for the classification, such as Blue Gene / L is at the top of the list with 360 trillion operations per second, which is kept fairly quickly ... but still not as fast as your brain.