http://www.hpcwire.com/offthewire/Dutch_Supercomputer_Beats_Human_at_Go.html
System Huygens, an IBM Power 575 Hydro-Cluster system, is the new Dutch national supercomputer. The system has a peak speed of 60 trillion calculations per second (Teraflop/s), 3328 Power6 processor cores at 4.7 GHz, a total memory capacity of more than 15 TB, and almost 1000 TB disk capacity. [ a quarter of the processors were used in this demonstration. ] The complete system has been in production since Aug. 1 of this year. With the dedicated help of the SARA staff, the Go application could run on the new system within a very short time. Financers The research in this project has been financed through the GoForGo project by the Physical Sciences council of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), while the CPU hours of Huygens were granted by the Netherlands National Computing Facilities Foundation (NCF). See also http://www.sara.nl/news/press/20080813/Go_computer_victory_eng.html Terry McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> “Wherever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.” Benjamin Disraeli, Speech in the House of Commons [June 15, 1874] _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
