I wonder at how many fps this baby could run Crysis with highest settings, 16x AS and 8x AA? XDDD

.....man..... i know this.... It was just a joke.....

"you'll need 100,000 of today's fastest laptops to equal the Roadrunner's power"



and... how many desktop computers is that?

Crysis pffttt, why play that when you can play.....



MINESWEEPER IN HI-DEF!!!!!

xD

People with calculators doing years of computation means nothing to anyone. In fact, as the comments on Slashdot pointed out, 2/3 of those people would not know what to do with their calculators, and would much rather have food (or eat it) than be given a calculator for a useless analogy.



This is NOT a desktop! As awesome as a thousands-of-cores system would be, it just doesn't work that way. Desktop computing is just beginning to take advantage of dual-core machines, as software needs to be written with multi-core use in mind. What a setup like this is for would be advanced simulations. Yes, your PhysX cards calculate physics, but not with the accuracy and precision that the government needs to manage its nuclear weapons. With this system, they can test their aging weapons and essentially determine when they'll no longer be useful or become unsafe. Some other examples include testing what happens when a weapon is dropped, from any angle or height, etc. This demands hardcore computing power, theoretically using one core for every vertex of whatever's being tested.



If anything, the wonder of it all is the PROGRAMMING, not the hardware! Interfacing all those cores and keeping them synchronized is not an easy task.



A last note, the Cell chips used are not the same as the chips powering our beloved gaming machine. While Sony spurred the development of the Cell for its own purposes, IBM has made revisions. The PS3 Cell is supposedly not as accurate or precise as the new generation of chips. Other changes include higher RAM limit and such.

Minesweeper FTW

my computer can do that [/sarcasm]

I had one of those back when I was was young... But they wern't called Compooters, they were called Scooters, and they used wheels instead of fans and they had handles instead of keyboards...