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The world's fastest computers

Twice a year the operators of the world's fastest computers eagerly await their latest ranking compiled by the Top500 project. The chart is based on the maximum rate at which a computer can crunch numbers using what are called floating point operations. November's list has just been released: enjoy the gallery of the five fastest calculators on the planet.

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Cosquae5994d ago

"Tianhe, which means "river in the sky", is housed at the National Super Computer Center, Tianjin, and is more than four times faster than the previous top computer in the country. The computer combines 6144 Intel processors with 5120 graphics processing units made by AMD, normally found in computer graphics cards."

...but how well can it run Crysis?

Leadweight5994d ago

that game was a big but beautiful mistake....

Fishy Fingers5994d ago

1280x768 medium-high settings no AA.

;)

Cosquae5994d ago (Edited 5994d ago )

Not sure how it could be classed as a mistake?

Set the benchmark for computer graphics for the past 3 years almost.

Drove PC graphics hardware sales probably more than any game.

Despite high piracy rates,still made a profit. Without it CryEngine 3 wouldn't be made either. Games that are mistakes rarely get sequels too. Not saying it's perfect, the gameplay isn't to everyone's tastes and it showed cryengine 2 could use some optimisation, but in a world of multiplats and console limited PC games, it showed what could be done.

@1.2 I bet it still struggles to get 30 fps even then ;)

Leadweight5994d ago

mistake as in it didnt allow compatibility with computers of the time right out the box.the best games of the last decade didnt leave it to chance and added scalability.this game was horrific when scaled low,so was far cry.the only way i got to see the game in all its glory(without having to dish out another 400 bucks) were the HD videos on youtube....

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TABSF5994d ago

Well me thinks Fermi will be locking up the top ten supercomputers for next years Top 500 SC

raWfodog5994d ago

...we get these powerful machines on our desks? 50, 100 years?

Imagine the games you could design on them... :)

Pandamobile5994d ago

Valve's already working on new tech. It's not really that the PS3 was too complicated for Valve, it just wasn't beneficial for them to port to a foreign architecture that will never be used by PC's.

Valve said they're already working on stuff for Intel's Larrabee and that will lead in to GPGPU computing which is the future of processing.

Aquarius5994d ago (Edited 5994d ago )

Are these computers faster than the human brain?

Cosquae5994d ago

Only at what they've been programmed to do.

Faster at calculating the answer to math problems. Yes.

Faster at figuring out what's for dinner. No.

YoungKiller255993d ago

techniqally yes they are smater than the human brain but the way i look at it is:

whos stronger the bully who kicks your a$$ everyday or the person who tells him to.

computers cant think so they will never be smarter

mrv3215994d ago

I bet it's used just for Gold Farming.

SuperStrokey11235994d ago

I can assure you that someone made some gold with this lol

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Microsoft Gaming Revenue Drops 7% Year-on-Year, Content and Services Down 5%, Xbox Hardware Down 33%

Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.

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Jin_Sakai17h ago(Edited 17h ago)

Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.

dveio10h ago

To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.

Jingsing8h ago

The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.

Tanktopmaster929h ago

Once they re-evaluate exclusive all will be fine….

S2Killinit9h ago

Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.

Jingsing8h ago

15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.

Tanktopmaster926h ago

These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse

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Report: Injustice 3 in Development at NetherRealm Studios

Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.

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Spiders Studio, Developers of GreedFall: The Dying World, Announce Liquidation of the Company

Spiders: "We're going to cut straight to the chase so you're not left wondering: After a long period without clear answers, we have received confirmation that Spiders is being liquidated.

What does it mean? This means the company as a whole no longer exists. We'll cease our functions immediately. The planned DLC will release via Nacon, and then-- well, that's it.

We're sorry that it's come to this and would like to thank each and every one of you for your support over the years.

If you have any questions or run into issues with your games, please contact Nacon directly as we'll no longer be able to reply."