Most Expensive Computer in the World
Written by: tom Filed Under: Electronics, World on October 7th, 2006The Japanese government estimates the Earth Simulator cost $400,000,000, making it the most expensive computer ever built. The budget for the Earth Simulator project was authorized for the National Space Development Agency of Japan (NASDA) and the Power Reactor and Nuclear Fuel Development Corporation (PNC) in 1997, and NEC Corporation made the winning bid for the Japanese project.

By May 2002, the 640 processor node supercomputer was benchmarked with Linpack as having 35.86 TFlop/s performance. This gave it the top spot on the TOP500 Supercomputer Sites list until 2004 when IBM’s BlueGene/L supercomputer took its place using an architecture that cost less than half as much to implement.
Each processor node in the Earth Simulator contains 8 vector processors running at 500MHz with 16GB of shared memory, and the total main memory in the machine is 10 terabytes. The operating system running on the supercomputer is NEC’s UNIX-based OS called “SUPER-UX” which is used on NEC’s SX Series of supercomputers.
This expensive computer is used for a wide variety of international projects, most of which are related to atmospheric, climate, and oceanographic simulation.
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you could create the Matrix
you can take the green pill and go back to fairy land or take the red and devl deeper into the rabbit hole
actually the pills were blue and red, not green and red.
I could buy that.
Yeah right, you wish you could buy it… -.^
“-the total main memory in the machine is 10 terabytes.” No loading time in games… COOOL!!! must own:P
u wish u could buy that u poor person hahaha matrix nerd.
ZOMG! Spend less money!
I wish I had one of those
umm….will it run WOW?
im sure it would. my computer at home runs it lol.
thats pocket money
does it come with a taylor made r7 425
and like… then we decided to give it all like, you know wicked flames and stuff… cept we wanted it to look all cools an barneywell he was keepin it real i `spose
lol.
Still doesn’t run STALKER with full AA though…
that is pocket money i have that in my pocket right now so i went an got them so does anybody want one for 1000 dallers
Overall, one has summarized that your personal computer system includes above mediocre system performance, very impressive dear chaps
I have used the same computer system for years, (Amstrad 92)and it still has state of the art performance that could be a serious rival of the Earth simulator, I would maybe consider swapping my Amstrad 92 for the Earth simulator!
I need to ask someone who knows: does this computer run win95 normally?
10 terabytes isnt that amazaing when Aleinware is offering a 4 tetrabyte fully loaded gaming pc for 5 grand.
Hmmm.. It might even be able to play Crysis without lagging
i wonder if that thing has the internet on it?
Think It’ll run Doom?
lol lets hack it =D!
I can afford it, but I shall only purchase it if it will run on AAA batteries.
it will destroy doom!!! not just run it
Its too much of a computer. all you need is a nvidia sli,2gb ramn,maibe 2 terrabytes hardrive, core 2 extreme, 3 ghz and its costs $5000….Much less than that. by the way, its an
@Jack
Dude, that’s 10 terabytes of RAM, not HDD space…if Alienware is indeed offering 4 Tera’s of RAM for $5,000 then I think someone made a wee bit of a mistake!
Under what classification can this 10 terabyte computer be?
dude 10 tb of ram total with each node having 16gb of ram thats over 600 nodes thats one hell of a electric bill.
The specs on this computer might be impressive they could have saved a lot of money and bought 17 PS3s that would be 34 tera-flops processing power. I don’t think they would miss the 1.86tf. and it would only cost $8,483 that is a far way away from $400,000,000. so this doesn’t impress me.
Finally, a machine that can actually run Crysis with full sliders and highest resolution. lolz.
Wow. Lol. Thats useless! Go get a few Xbox360s and Ps3s for god sake!
Wow…..great system…. i sure hope its not operating with microsoft vista…hahaha
To people like Jack,
they are talking about 10terabytes of proccessing speed of information at one time.
the alienware is how much it can hold on the harddrive at one time.
Two complete different things.
Crap, also I forgot this was made back in 2004, we have made quite a few jumps in computer speeds since then.