back to article JURECA! Germany flips big red switch on 2.2 petaflop supercomputer

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 …

  1. Mike Bell

    Nice

    They'll just be using it to play Killer Gorilla, though.

  2. AndyS

    Better comparison

    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?

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: Better comparison

      Wait till the news breaks that they used software to rig the test

  3. John Stoffel

    Ob question...

    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.

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