Nice
They'll just be using it to play Killer Gorilla, though.
Germany has officially powered up its new 2.2 petaflop JURECA supercomputer. Based at the Forschungszentrum Jülich research facility, the JURECA (pronounced "Eureka" and short for Juelich Research on Exascale Cluster Architectures) system runs on Intel's 12-core Xeon E5-2680 Haswell CPUs, employing a total of 1,900 nodes (each …
They'll just be using it to play Killer Gorilla, though.
Here's an interesting statistic.
This new computer has 1,900 nodes (3,800 CPUs in total). Merely the front-end interface for the Milky-way 2 has 4,096 CPUs.
However, from Wikipedia, it is more a show of strength than a practical computer: "Some users would need years or even a decade to write the necessary code." So perhaps this German one will be more useful in the real world?
So how well does it play crysis? Oh wait... I'm way too late with this trope, right? By like something near four years or so? Dang... I'm such an old fart.
I do find it interesting how water cooling has made such a comeback. You never seem to hear about the systems like this which develop a leak and short out like crazy, causing fires. Now that would be a great ElReg set of articles/pictures to show.