Mer des Ennuis
02-03-2008, 01:52
The Armed Republic of Mer des Ennuis announced today that it will be constructing the world’s fastest super computer.
The Commputer Array will replace Earth Array 1, a computer system operating at approximately 50 petaflops.
Antares is loosely based off of the Blue Gene computer scaling system, and will contain 864,000 processors (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_gene#Blue_Gene.2FP); estimated to be near the top end of the systems scaling capabilities. Each processor is operates at just over 2 teraflops (”http://www.theinquirer.net/en/inquirer/news/2007/06/21/intel-shows-off-2-tflops-processor"). Twenty Gigabytes of SRAM is stacked on each processor, allowing gigabytes of data to be transferred per second, as well as allowing all system processes to be stored in cache. The system is remarkably power efficient, drawing only 160 watts per processor, drawing 138.24 megawatts in total. 2 Westinghouse A4W reactor s provide power. Like Earth Array 1, maintenance is fully automated. Unlike Earth Array 1, lockout chips on the hardware level make the system near-impervious to external incursion tests. It is expected that Antares will operate on a closed network.
The power of Antares is phenomenal, and is expected to operate at 1,728,000,000,000,000,000 FLOPS, or 1.728 exaflops. It is believed that this might be enough processing power to achieve consciousness and potentially operate an unoptomized simulation of the human brain (”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong_AI#Simulated_human_brain_model”). From software white papers, the government is seeking AI to model human actions (”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong_AI#Franklin.E2.80.99s_Intelligent_Distribution_Agent”) through the use of a near-unlimited number of autonomous software agents. The project is expected to take a year and a half to finish production and testing. Silicion and copper prices have increased nearly 50% on the Mer de Noms futures market with this announcement.
The Commputer Array will replace Earth Array 1, a computer system operating at approximately 50 petaflops.
Antares is loosely based off of the Blue Gene computer scaling system, and will contain 864,000 processors (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_gene#Blue_Gene.2FP); estimated to be near the top end of the systems scaling capabilities. Each processor is operates at just over 2 teraflops (”http://www.theinquirer.net/en/inquirer/news/2007/06/21/intel-shows-off-2-tflops-processor"). Twenty Gigabytes of SRAM is stacked on each processor, allowing gigabytes of data to be transferred per second, as well as allowing all system processes to be stored in cache. The system is remarkably power efficient, drawing only 160 watts per processor, drawing 138.24 megawatts in total. 2 Westinghouse A4W reactor s provide power. Like Earth Array 1, maintenance is fully automated. Unlike Earth Array 1, lockout chips on the hardware level make the system near-impervious to external incursion tests. It is expected that Antares will operate on a closed network.
The power of Antares is phenomenal, and is expected to operate at 1,728,000,000,000,000,000 FLOPS, or 1.728 exaflops. It is believed that this might be enough processing power to achieve consciousness and potentially operate an unoptomized simulation of the human brain (”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong_AI#Simulated_human_brain_model”). From software white papers, the government is seeking AI to model human actions (”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong_AI#Franklin.E2.80.99s_Intelligent_Distribution_Agent”) through the use of a near-unlimited number of autonomous software agents. The project is expected to take a year and a half to finish production and testing. Silicion and copper prices have increased nearly 50% on the Mer de Noms futures market with this announcement.