{"id":79375,"date":"2015-07-31T13:30:01","date_gmt":"2015-07-31T11:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=79375"},"modified":"2015-07-31T14:05:40","modified_gmt":"2015-07-31T12:05:40","slug":"u-s-building-first-exascale-supercomputer-thats-514033-ps4s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/79375-u-s-building-first-exascale-supercomputer-thats-514033-ps4s","title":{"rendered":"U.S. building first Exascale Supercomputer: that\u2019s 514,033 PS4s"},"content":{"rendered":"

Have you heard of the TOP500 list<\/a> of the world\u2019s fastest supercomputers?<\/p>\n

In case you haven\u2019t, it\u2019s exactly what it describes, a list of the current top 500 supercomputers \u2013 that is, those with the most raw compute power.<\/p>\n

For the most part, it\u2019s a U.S. dominated list. The United States currently holds 233 of the 500 spots<\/a>, an impressive feat no doubt.<\/p>\n

Funny thing is, at one point, in November of 2013 to be precise, they held 265 spots. Combine that with the fact that they haven\u2019t held the top spot for a number of years now, and the U.S. has obviously become antsy.<\/p>\n

For the moment, the honour of fastest supercomputer goes China\u2019s TIANHE-2<\/a> (Milkyway-2) supercomputer, which has held the spot since 2013.<\/p>\n

\"Chinese<\/a>

China’s Tianhe-2 Supercomputer.<\/p><\/div>\n

Thanks to its 3.12 million cores and 1 million plus gigabytes of RAM, TIANHE-2 is capable of an impressive 33,862.7 teraflops (or TFlop\/s<\/a>).<\/p>\n

33.862 petaflops is insane, but The United States is about to blow that figure out of the water.<\/p>\n

According to Extreme Tech<\/a>, President of The United States, Barack Obama, has given the go-ahead to build the world\u2019s first exascale (1,000 petaflops) supercomputer.<\/p>\n

Actually, the order tasks the creation of a \u201ccoordinated federal strategy for high-performance computing (HPC) research, development, and deployment\u201d.<\/p>\n

The point is to found a National Strategic Computing Initiative (NSCI) that will eventually go on to design and build the exascale supercomputer.<\/p>\n

To put that into perspective for you. A PS4\u2019s CPU is capable of 102.4 GFlop\/s and its GPU can manage a grand total of 1.843 TFlop\/s.<\/p>\n

What that means is that you\u2019d need 17,406 (and a half) PS4s just to match the TIANHE-2, and 514,033 and a measly $239.55 million (R3.032 billion) to reach the heights of the exascale beast the U.S. plans to whip up.<\/p>\n

Even with AMD\u2019s Radeon R9 Fury X pushing out an incredible 8.6 TFlop\/s, you\u2019d still need 116,279 R9 Fury Xs to manage an exaflop.<\/p>\n

Silly as exaflop sounds to say, the supercomputer that manages it is anything but.<\/p>\n

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Source: Extreme Tech<\/a>, VG Leaks<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n

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NVIDIA Pascal cards sport 17 billion transistors and 32GB of HBM2 VRAM<\/a><\/p>\n

The ultimate 4K showdown: Radeon R9 Fury X Quad Crossfire vs. Titan X Quad SLI<\/a><\/p>\n

AMD\u2019s Quantum PC is powered by Intel: go figure<\/a><\/p>\n

This tiny 18-core PC is more powerful than you could possibly imagine<\/a><\/p>\n

And there’s plenty more<\/a> where that came from.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And makes it 30x faster than current fastest supercomputer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":79377,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[15071,15069,1085,1969,15397,13978,15067,5092,15073],"class_list":["post-79375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-exaflop","tag-exascale","tag-hardware-2","tag-news-2","tag-pc","tag-performance","tag-petaflop","tag-supercomputer","tag-teraflop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79381,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79375\/revisions\/79381"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}