Moscow University has acquired a supercomputer capable of performing 27.8 trillion operations per second
IBM will supply the University of Moscow with a Blue Gene/P series supercomputer, which will serve the Department of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics.
The new supercomputer will be the first of its kind installed in Russia, and will be used for research purposes in the fields of nanotechnology, discovery and development of new materials and life sciences.
The export of IBM's computer was approved by the American government, which oversees the export of supercomputer technologies due to the possibility of using them for military purposes as well. In the past, the American government did not allow supercomputers to be sold to Russia and the countries of the former Soviet Union.
Moscow University purchased two Blue Gene/P database systems, with 8,192 processors. This supercomputer is capable of performing 27.8 trillion (thousand billions) of calculation operations per second (Tflop/s) - 2,600 times more than the fastest home personal computer known today.
Upon its activation, the computer will enter one of the first five places in the list of the most powerful computers in the world, which is published on the Top500.org website. The unique architecture of Blue Gene allows it to consume only a fraction of the energy required by the other supercomputers already existing in Russia - and a significantly smaller physical area than any other computer, despite its superiority in performance over these other computers.
It should be noted that the most powerful computer in the world is also from IBM's Blue Gene series and is located at the Livermore National Laboratory of the US Department of Energy.
IBM's Blue Gene/P is the second generation of the world's most powerful supercomputer. Since 2004, Blue Gene computers have topped the list of the 500 most powerful systems in the world. The unique structure of this computer allows extremely dense compression of processors, memory and internal communication circuits. These, make it also the most economical supercomputer in its energy consumption, and the most compact structure in its field.
The new IBM system at Moscow University will be activated in April this year.
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It goes straight to their army, the Americans are really stupid
Will Digger rise above him?
The West went crazy!
Since the XNUMXs (roughly), the Europeans have entered into a process of suicide on a small fire (Islam).
But it turns out that the Americans are also starting to lose the north: precisely when Putin starts a cold war again, they give him a modern weapon (a supercomputer is a modern weapon). And this comes after the delusional intelligence assessment that Iran has no intentions of developing nuclear weapons.
There is still time until the computer will be able to run Crysis properly.
Leave Crysis, Far Cry 2 is coming soon.
Does this sort of thing run Chrisis?
What size is it?
what is his price? (maybe I will buy)
What is its power consumption? (However, I don't want to waste electricity like crazy)
How is it cooled? (In a cold room? With water cooling?)