[FRIAM] REPOST: The meaning of "inner".

[Jochen Fromm]

Yes, an impressive supercomputer. I think it is much more difficult
to use a supercomputer with a trillion operations per second
than a huge cluster of ordinary computers, as you can find them
in Google's data centers.

-J.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Marcus G. Daniels" <marcus at snoutfarm.com>
To: "The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group" <friam at redfish.com>
Sent: Sunday, July 20, 2008 7:49 PM
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] REPOST: The meaning of "inner".


> For comparison, LANL Roadrunner has about 5 trillion transistors for the
> CPUs (~13000 PowerXCell 8i processors and ~6500 dual core Opterons) and
> another 800 trillion for RAM (~100 TB).
>