What Makes a Supercomputer?
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- Опубликовано: 29 апр 2014
- How do engineers build today's supercomputers, and how are the world's fastest computers ranked? We visit the Texas Advanced Computing Center, home of one of the world's top supercomputing clusters, to learn about and how researchers tap into petaflops of processing power. We're talking about a system with 270 Terabytes of RAM and 14 Petabytes of storage!
Learn more about TACC's Stampede supercomputer here: www.tacc.utexas.edu/stampede/ 
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Back at the university in the early '90s a professor told me about that (for example what distinguishes a supercomputer from a workstation):
A simulation would take 4 weeks on the workstation. A computer is a supercomputer when it can do the same sim in 5 minutes...after you waited for 4 weeks to get your time slot. :)
Ha ha thats hilarious 🤣🤣🤣the irony 🤣🤣🤣
And now what would take supercomputers 30,000 years.... Would take a Quantum Computer just shy of 2 days. .... It's amazing how tech advances.
should run minecraft relatively smooth
*****
Can't you see I was being sarcastic? xDDD
Nick xD
wow! could you imagine gaming on this Behemoth! HA HA you could play mine craft, crisis, every damn video game known to man at the same time.
Nothing can run Minecraft perfectly
Maybe even above 60FPS
Does google earth lag on this computer as well? :P
Norm should interview everyone, he actually listens and asks amazing questions.
Fantastic interviews! As others have said, Norm is great at asking the right questions and letting the interviewees express some really interesting answers. Thanks for everyone at Tested for this!
My hat's off to the interviewer here. He did a GREAT job asking just the right questions to the interviewee who clearly articulated his answers that really defined supercomputers.
This has to be in the top 5 videos made by the Tested team. Excellent.
This video is very helpful, i am current a college student and i am taking a computer course . this video help me understand what a supercomputer is in detail. i learned that a super computer is design to move more rapidly and efficiently , it holds more volume data . The software is more up to date, with different applications all in which can be used on a smart computer that cannot be used on a mainframe
VERY cool video. I didn't even realize super computing was implementing so much over the counter consumer hardware.
Wait 20-30 years to get this in your house.
Rem You can buy all this stuff now. Workstations are really affordable and you can do all kinds of simulations and modeling or even make a cheap $300 server for your home automation. You don't need gigajiggamegaflops to do that.
***** True, but somehow having a home server doesn't sound quite as impressive as a supercomputer capable of performing billions of calculations per second xP
Oops, my mistake. What Jonny B said :P
This was one the most interesting interviews you have done.
Well I'm gonna equip my computer with a bitogip with a 400000 gingolaps per second doodleflip, so it can do over 50 quadrillion zingybobs per millicat, so its over 17698469 bingyvoxes quicker than a standard chandopoop
Hahahaha, best comment ever
Did you overclocked or it's by default like that?
Man, you are so full of poop! '50 quadrillion zingybobs per millicat'. I'd like to see you get upto 20 jigglebigs per puttydogs! It's OK to over hype things, but don't lie! 50 quadrillion zingybobs, pft! Don't make me laugh!
Farseer Flore Nahh you'll need a zentix pigoproccessor with 65 lesnofloops on each to get up to 20 jigglebigs per puttydog, and they predict that they wont come out till 2016.
Your shit is WAY funny!!! How long did you have to sit around and come up with this kind of bullshit??? Leave technology alone. Bet you can fill up quite a few comedy clubs if you have more MATERIAL like this,
This stuff is insanely cool, huge thanks for showing this :)
Absolutely Brilliant!
But can it run Crysis XP
I'm gaming for science!! :) This makes me excited for the future and I can't wait to see what other applications this could be used for. Great interview Tested!
I'm always taken by how good question Norm asks. He is on top of every interviewee.
Yup he really is
I went there and got to meet Dan in 2016. What a great guy.
Very cool. And great interviews Norm.
super great interviews. I love the future.
And I can still remember finding a 286 daughterboard on sale, that when I installed it in my IBM PC my computer got all the way up to 1MIPS. That's one million instructions per second.
One of your best videos
12:51 ..all that equipment and still no bezel correct?
Can't wait for the implanted version!
great clip, thx for sharing :)
This was pretty awesome.
Very, very good interview!
Great video!
great video guys, a lot of ground covered.
Nice work Grant.
Can you make a game for a supercomputer where the graphics were super advanced and it had 20 4k screens ?
Yes you could, but there would be no market for it and the time to make it would cost too much, so they wont do it.
Not to mention the distance you would be at to see all the screens would eliminate your ability to see the screens in 4k quality.
Its called Crysis 1, 2 and 3
Maybe a madlad billionarie like Elon Musk could do it,imagine spendindg thousands or millions only on eletricity bills+creating a supercomputer just to gaming+developing a whole game just to one person play
great video, i really enjoyed this one :)
In 23 years or probably less, I'm going to own a desktop computer with the power of the supercomputer shown in this video. That's pretty cool...
perhaps
Nope. Moore's law is hitting its limit with silicon. Even if companies switch to carbon nano tubes, quantum tunneling will hit quickly, because everything is already too small. CPUs and GPUs will start to get bigger again, but then latency will also take it's toll. Only quantum computing can help us now, but it has not made any real steps to take us there.
This is soooo cool!!!
i bet they can do like 50k gaming
Yes (maybe) like I guess it's playable. :/
+Alfred X Its, not a graphic intensive supercomputer, it doesn't even run normal operating systems at a consumer level. So it wouldn't be able to most likely. While it does have many GPU'S, its main purpose is to calculate and crunch numbers with all the cores it has.
4 Years later, we're still at around only 8K screens.
Sumit Dev lol you tell him stupid thing to say
Awesome video
this is amazing science and computers make the world and knowledge for humans better each year and month, it amazes me :)
Norm, you might want to shake the guests' hand at the end and thank them for being on the show. They ALWAYS look so confused; is this over, do I walk away, who is he talking to?
The transition from talking to the guest so intimately to reciting the "closing statement" to the camera is very abrupt. A quick handshake would make that transition much smoother and more graceful.
I love it how it seems that while Norm does all the work Will just keeps fucking around with different things in the background haha
That shit is crazy.
Amazing!!!!
On Oak Ridge National Laboratory website you can read now that "The Summit system will deliver 5-10 times the computational performance of Titan when the system is fully available to users in January 2019."
That was so interesting
I can just imagine someone bringing in a bottle of water and spilling it, and damaging billions of dollars' worth of equipment lol.
Damnt Jerry you did it again
this is why water fountains
OMG , that will be a super damage
I'd dammage you ;)
*millions, you can only spill on one rack at a time, not the whole thing, and they usually don't cost more than 1 billion dollars, most stay around 100 mil
The Pickle Research Center is 20 minutes from my place. I should go and take a look at this
Wow glad we where prepared for this pandemic now in 2020!
What A *Flawless Computer*
7:28 those things already passed through my head
I love how that lady doesn't just reject all the talk of "So this is just like in that movie!" or "So maybe you wanna, say, plot a zombie outbreak!"
She doesn't turn her nose up at that, like "No, this is real science, that is silly whimsical bullshit. Don't be such a troglodyte." Seems like she knows science can be creative and exciting, not all (as Danny Devito once put it) pinky-up and sober.
As a scientific educator, she's pretty awesome.
13:50 I wonder if they ever predicted the Coronavirus using their supercomputer pandemic exercise program
Deep Thought came up with, "42."
I WANT THE DAMN QUESTION!!!
Have a word with Slartibartfast!
What do you get when you multiply six by nine
If you want to understand the answer, you really need a good grasp on the question.
"there are a multitude of ways to use that large display". i certainly know one
It was a really good video, but i must say that the music really killed it in the end AKA it would have been even better of a video if it had been in the background trough the entire video.
Just known that in 20, maybe 10 years, a system that powerful will be compact and in everyone's homes. Just look at the first computers who had the capacity of 10mb and the computer took up an entire room.
what fps should it get on star citizen?
probably like 20 fps running at 1080p
I have to hate you for doing that joke before me... XD
Hugo Mendes :3
Over 9000 xDD
I imagine its like playing the game on the machine that hosts it, with thousands of other players...locally. Each hosting their own games too...linking with exponentially larger sub-hosted games. With an order of a million times greater performance than server-chip machines that these gaming companies use, I could be putting a low-end estimate here even with the "Inception" level of gaming I just proposed lol.
I for one can't wait until a cheap wallpaper screen can be applied to any wall and then have different environments in motion presented on screen so even if you have to live in a city you can virtually get away.
this reminds me when I went to UCSD, they had a room like that with a lot of screens lol.
12:59 i came here for the future of computing, didn't know she already saw 2020. wonder how the giant screen was used to fight the Corona virus
thinking about how unrestricted a game developing company could be with a computer like that, that it could run on. Would be glorious.
it would be great if the "computer" wasn't warehouse-sized. It'd be great if they had a system like the cloud computing on xbone powered by one/few of these.
13:40 2020 Covid 19 has entered the chat...
thats so cool
gaming night at a supercomputer lab... omg.
Great video guys, enjoy the nerd factor :)
finally 4k 60fps gaming... without a hitch, on a screen as large as a movie theater! lol
never thought id see the day
This Visualisation computer is pretty impressive. I wonder how quick you can run realflow sims on it?! ;)
dam now i wanna see a video of game night im curious as too how it will look
Great job do more job
Please show a video of people playing games on the 75+ monitor setup!
wow supercomputers are amazing!
and to think the top 3rd supercomputer, Sequioa, is just about a 10 minute drive from where I live. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory! go Livermore! xD
But will it run ie
NerdyNoob Who cares about IE?
NerdyNoob Not on Linux.
ESISTOBSTIMHAUS yes, must via wine
Harry Tsang Wine sucks on most applications...
Yes but will still crash a million times faster.
It's really funny how the classic view of sci-fi super computers was a wall of flashing lights and now the real life super computers do look like wall of flashing lights. =D
I love how she just says "we do have gaming night in the lab"; like it's no point pretending that we don't use it for fun too... hehe
Run a 1 millions player Minecraft server on that supercomputer and have a movie theatre as your display setup. It would be unreal.
the bitcoin I can mine with this o my gosh
mikegunz A unrealisable dream, just forget it ..
for weak computers that is.
mikegunz those are CPUs , you would need asics or GPUs to mine. CPUs now would just overheat and destroy the computer without making a dollar
Chris Kim sure, they built clusters of thousands of computers that can't run at 100% CPU utilization without overheating... Mining bitcoins or stock market data or weather data these systems could run capped out for days on end without any issues at all.
Callum Errington maybe, but first the power consumption would make you debt higher than your profit . Also you don't need 100% utilization to overheat. Also bitcoins are going down the drain and have been only spiraling downward since they reached $1000 per coin
5:28 would the 14 Petabytes scratch storage, be like a huge Paging file? because he said they were needed to keep up with all the processors.
It's kinda cool how TV and Hollywood, in a way, dictate what and how technology is used in the future. With Star Trek and speaking directly to ur computer & Minority Report-like gesture controlled machines... Right now, there are concept artists sketching out the future of technology for some Steven Spielberg movie, that may become a reality 30 years from now. ( Someone build me an Ironman suit... :D )
I’m still watching Star Trek since October of 1987
I've ordered 2 gtx titan black for my next computer build. It'll be a lot faster and better than what old computers you guys are using now. I'm cool that way. Kthxbye.
Yes, but can it read?
I can't tell if this is a joke or you are actually stupid.
He's not stupid, it's gonna be able to run chrome fairly well, but idk about gaming with it
The machine wasn't exactly made for gaming. The super computer is still more powerful.
2 gtx titan blacks? its defs built for gaming...
imagine playing shooters on that, couldn't say you died because of lag
Yes you could... lag can come from problems connecting to a server, which they have no control over.
Capt. Sum Ting Wong But you can host hundereds of them in there :)
Capt. Sum Ting Wong I don't think you understand the statement, he wasn't talking about frame lag, he was talking about server lag, which would be nonexistent because the computer itself would be hosting the server
Can I have Stanpede when you guys no longer use it ? I would even take Ranger if you still got it lying arround somewhere... :P
I'm going to shit my pants if these guys allow VR demos.
I live about three hours east of this place :D
Can it run minesweeper at 4k ultra at a decent framerate? I don think so mate...
"We are ahead of Moore's law"
But you aren't, Moore's law is:- The number of transistors on *integrated* circuits doubles approximately every two years. Banding chips together to work on tasks together doesn't mean they all become integrated, they are still separate.
what he said makes complete sense. cluster computing grows faster than single chip design
I never said it didn't, Moore's law is about the jump of transistors within integrated circuits, a cluster isn't an integrated circuit.
I can see the milestone he made, but the fact he's using a law that regards only that form of item, it's a bit silly to do so. Maybe if he had used Moore's law as a comparison and not a milestone.
Don't misinterpret him by taking that out of context lol.. he was talking about the cluster itself.
Fair enough
Hmm.. ya. I tend to think of it as a processing power and forget it's actually based on transistor count. So he didn't use it exactly correctly, but his meaning is there. Clusters are growing faster.
They should consider working with Linden Labs when it comes to virtual reality environments.
To make it more efficient, you need to stack chips into 3D rather than typical 2D silicon chips. it reduces, power and is much more efficient and faster than typical chips. but it produces more heat which can easily be solved.
... It's not easy to solve lol.
Game night! I wish I could play Crysis 3 or Watch_Dogs on that computer!
It might actually get Ultra settings @ 60fps
Or play both at the same time
Or Ultra settings at 120fps
Look at all those dell nodes with bang lights. They should give me a call I'd be happy to do some hardware maintenance for them.
Must be a heavily modified version of linux to make this run so smooth. Id love to delve into the software for this behemoth.
If you like the idea of creating a cluster, there's a video about how to do it using raspberry pi computers (a very cheap way of doing it). Nowhere near as powerful as the supercomputer shown in this video mind you, but it is a good example of how clustering really works.
I can't wait for 25 years to go by....
Can I have a monitor?
Edit: That was a really cool tour also!
Finally, I can run minesweeper at 60fps!
when you think about, i still use a 9 or 10 year old mac laptop on occasion, and its max built in memory is ~500MB, and now my little gaming pc holds a few terabytes easily. Also imagine what would happen if that supercomputer tried mining bitcoins. Or if they ran a multiplayer fps, imagine stamped running a 10M person round of gun game on BO2
Wouldn't be worth mining bitcoins. The chips wouldn't be optimized and would provide poor performance per watt in comparison with ASICs.
Imagine if this were used for the various BOINC, SETI, EINSTEIN projects to solve our modern problems.
All I got from this is that one person riding a stationary bike could power this supercomputer. #SoEnergyEfficent #FuckingGreen
Uhh, no. They said the whole supercomputer takes 6 MW (6,000,000 Watts) to power. A person on a bike can produce, at most, a couple hundred Watts of power. So you'd need about 30,000 bikers biking nonstop to power this thing.
I was wondering if this computer was capable of running a game called "Minecraft"?
If Minecraft runs on a custom Linux distribution...
flatshade Was joking, but I'm pretty sure it can, but i guess it depends on the distro
***** My Coffee Maker has java, can it run minecraft?
***** so if i download some more ram and then Copy and paste my hard drive into my monitor, then i can take that upstairs and plug it into my Blender to then reformat the disc drive...
***** sry
5:06 one checked, 7000 to go !
I was waiting to hear the question you never asked; " what O/S does it run ?
All super computing clusters run on linux; There are a few distributions that specialize in managing those systems
Anyone watching this now thinking how did this help with Covid ?
but can it crack wpa2?
one day I'll have a phone more powerful and we're gonna laugh at this