Ranger : World's Most Powerful Supercomputer

Texas supercomputer helps nation's scientists "scale up" research for 21st century science.

On Feb. 4, 2008, "Ranger," the most powerful computing system in the world for open scientific research, entered full production at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC), a leading supercomputing center at The University of Texas at Austin. Ranger's deployment marks the beginning of the Petascale Era in high-performance computing — where systems will approach a thousand trillion floating point operations a second — and heralds a new age for computational science and engineering research.

http://www.rangersupercomputer.com/

What factors drive climate change? How did galaxies form after the Big Bang? Have we reached a point in medicine where doctors can customize patient-specific treatments to illness?

The answers to these "grand challenge" questions are vital to our health, our quality of life and security, and our understanding of the universe. With persistent advances in computing technologies and expertise, researchers are beginning to get to the heart of these problems.

And now they have an unprecedented tool to extend knowledge and compute answers to these critical questions.

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[hahahohohi9845]

my comp almost crashed just watching this :D

[WeKnowWhatsFunnyFilm]

imagine a 9800 graphics card in each one of those crysis would be a tiny bug to run.

[mquiroz90]

@Giratina386 Wat do u think apples supercomputer looks like where iPads iPhones come from

[randyck]

"WHAAAAAAATTT??!!!"

[Giratina386]

Imagine all this, inside Apples newest product...

[DarkZTerminal]

imagin playing battlefield 3 on this.

[jugarnaut40]

And in 5 years it will be outdated.

[soccerjonesy]

@IlikeFoodnDrink What you just said was beyond stupid.

Comparing size, then yes, your brian can be more powerful then a computer, but with today's technology, unlikely.

Your eyes are useful but cameras today can see, record, zoom farther, etc. while all remaining in HD which is near the perfectness of reality.

Best graphics is not reality since graphics don't exist in reality, only in visuals from screens from technology. But of course reality is better looking, everyone knows that...

[kapowinthfaceZING]

wgats it used for lol

[IlikeFoodnDrink]

Most powerful computer: YOUR BRAIN!

Most powerful camera: YOUR EYES!

Best graphics: REAL LIFE!

[Brinkalator]

hope it can run minesweeper

[stephensoliven]

@kakamdas ahaha nice imagination but bad way of getting the money ahahaha