Comments on: Top 10 supercomputers in numbers https://www.pingdom.com/blog/top-10-supercomputers-in-numbers/ Website Performance and Availability Monitoring | Pingdom Tue, 27 Sep 2011 05:59:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 By: Rhima Calderon https://www.pingdom.com/blog/top-10-supercomputers-in-numbers/#comment-1732 Tue, 27 Sep 2011 05:59:10 +0000 http://royalpingdom.wpengine.com/?p=9447#comment-1732 Great computers! I think they should use fiber optics in cabling to save some amount of electricity.

]]> By: Teodor https://www.pingdom.com/blog/top-10-supercomputers-in-numbers/#comment-1731 Tue, 27 Sep 2011 02:20:39 +0000 http://royalpingdom.wpengine.com/?p=9447#comment-1731 @Stefan Impresive numbers for linux!!!

]]> By: Martin Varesio https://www.pingdom.com/blog/top-10-supercomputers-in-numbers/#comment-1730 Mon, 15 Aug 2011 05:12:12 +0000 http://royalpingdom.wpengine.com/?p=9447#comment-1730 However a typical network becomes a bottleneck when dealing with large amounts of data I/O, so these clusters rely special internal networks..!!

]]> By: Stefan Lasiewski https://www.pingdom.com/blog/top-10-supercomputers-in-numbers/#comment-1729 Mon, 18 Jul 2011 21:21:52 +0000 http://royalpingdom.wpengine.com/?p=9447#comment-1729 @Dan: These machines are a kind of computer clusters. They *are* networked computers, with a very fast interconnected ‘network’. However a typical network becomes a bottleneck when dealing with large amounts of data I/O, so these clusters rely special internal networks (usually referred to as ‘interconnects’).

If you were to attempt this level of computation with common kinds of networked computers (With independent power supplies, hard drives, etc) , your systems would be much more expensive and less reliable then these super computers.

]]> By: Stefan Lasiewski https://www.pingdom.com/blog/top-10-supercomputers-in-numbers/#comment-1728 Mon, 18 Jul 2011 21:16:37 +0000 http://royalpingdom.wpengine.com/?p=9447#comment-1728 @Leon: Many of these supercomputers run Linux. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercomputer#Operating_systems

]]> By: Affidavit https://www.pingdom.com/blog/top-10-supercomputers-in-numbers/#comment-1727 Fri, 08 Jul 2011 22:19:07 +0000 http://royalpingdom.wpengine.com/?p=9447#comment-1727 @Dan – half million of PCs in an office or university? Must be a large one.

]]> By: Leon https://www.pingdom.com/blog/top-10-supercomputers-in-numbers/#comment-1726 Fri, 08 Jul 2011 10:10:16 +0000 http://royalpingdom.wpengine.com/?p=9447#comment-1726 How many of those super computers run Linux?

]]> By: Mistures https://www.pingdom.com/blog/top-10-supercomputers-in-numbers/#comment-1725 Thu, 07 Jul 2011 22:45:24 +0000 http://royalpingdom.wpengine.com/?p=9447#comment-1725 I thought my iMac was good.

]]> By: Dan https://www.pingdom.com/blog/top-10-supercomputers-in-numbers/#comment-1724 Thu, 30 Jun 2011 04:11:48 +0000 http://royalpingdom.wpengine.com/?p=9447#comment-1724 Why the need for such fast machines? Can’t scientists simulate earthquakes with networked PCs in an office or university?

]]> By: LeBuen https://www.pingdom.com/blog/top-10-supercomputers-in-numbers/#comment-1723 Wed, 29 Jun 2011 17:41:09 +0000 http://royalpingdom.wpengine.com/?p=9447#comment-1723 Combined computing performance of the bitcoin network: 137 petaflops

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