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.
How much do you bet that this computer cant even play crisis lol.
of corse it cant pley games its not what its made for !)(:
I’ll bet Bejeweled 2 would run without any lag between levels
too bad it cant play crysis at full speed though.
It may not be able to play games but it could memorize every game ever made with that much memory. A terabyte is 1000 gigs
LOLZ im reading some of your posts like”I can get something almost as good as that from best buy” or “alienware is selling something like that” and i just have to laugh…do you realy think the people who are making such a powerful machine would really over look the fact that a computer from alienware or whatever is3000000000000000000 dollars cheaper? Its just a thought but i think thiers might be a bit better for that kind of price.
keep prepared for most expensive computer i am comming
now way back when… a computer was as large as a house, that would run a calculator. now a computer that big will run EVERYTHING!!!
will it play solitare with no lag?
Im getting my Bathtub ready as we speak, 15 gallons of Liquid Nitrogen should cover the heating aspect of owning one of these suckers!
hmmmmmnnnn. THis might be a better choice of computer if you would like to recreate the earth…… 3d printer required
it would suck if it got a virus
oh it was made in 2004 … thats y 10 terabytes doesnt seem much for a computer the size of canary wharf … i mean u can get a 1 terrabyte harddrive now for about a hundred quid
idiots…..it doesnt even have a monitor
my sick new microbee would smash that
wow that’s something, that’s a lot of money. It would suck if it broke though.
will it play halo
Umm, it does not have video card, atleast nobody says it here…
Yeah… Well… I bet it can’t make coffie…
Naw it wont play halo it just cost 400,000,000.Brandon,
dude i really hope your joking.
This Computer will make any Alienware Computers look Ancient
will it play starcraft?
well, all i can say is HOLY @$#1. lol
Can it run Chuck Norris without lagging?
…No. No it can’t.
this thing is horrible, 500 mgz!!! are you all retarded? processors today have at least a 1333 mgz fsb and thats just the front side bus. The real speed is like 2-3 ghz and motherboards today can hold up to 32 gigs of ram also the 400,000,000 million dollors does not say anything, it was built in 1997 so its really old and probably really big to. So ya it sucks compared to even the lowest priced alienware comp.
my bad it was made in 2004
So I was comparing this computer to the Mac Pro…
Mac Pro (as high-tech as it can get) costs $21,810.95. 32 g memory as opposed to 16 (shocker), 4 terrobyte hard drive, Two 2.93GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon along with all the software you would ever need and two 30″ displays! Intense. Huh? But seriously, that computer is overpriced even with how good it is.
If that PC would make me rich, i would but it:D
it still cant run crysis lol
WOW….it would suck if someone plugged this computer into the wall without a surge protector…..lightning storm and: sizzle, sizzle, fry, fry……It would make you want to cry, cry!!!
$400,000,000, only? ill take 3
ma rig is running slow fro games… and i am lookin for a system in which i can play ma fav game…DAVE ……..
will it run super mario?
i think it will be good to have them many produced
A terabyte is actually 1024 Gigabytes, not one thousand. That’s a Terabit.
what the hell…i prefer to buy 300 cars of bugatti veyron.
is very chif for eliene , because is primitive for they
i could buy 3 dose cheap comps and im going for the record of getting 25 buggatis got 17 already!
yar would it run spider
Ummmm … I wish I had one of those….
get out more
I would like to let all those nooblets know, that Crysis is not hard to run at all, back in 2007 when we had 8800’s and 8600’s, thats when it was hard to run, but these days, with the excessivly overpowered 295’s, its shit easy to run.
This Computer looks pretty powerfull, i would like to know what operating system it is running under, a Server Hybrid?
@ John, a Terabit is actually 128 Gigabytes, a bit, is one eight of a byet, so if you have any number with Byte in it, divide it by 8, and you will have the Bit value.
No it wont run crysis because it has no graphics card.
Hmm… who would buy this computer? It probably wouldn’t get sold because so many rich people would want it…
Just I guess that the more expensive computer they built, they more virus would attack them. Let them not try to it.
YOU CULD TAKE BATH WIT IT!
for $400,000,000 it better make coffee
man it cud run 1000 crisis without slowing down yep n i cud watch naruto whenever i wanted
haha jk
hah. what if it broke
. that would be a shit load of money gone to waste. also, nice comment, matrix nerd.
that was so cool i want one
The real question is if this thing can eat bacon..
If it cant its not worth it..
Wow thats the same price as a Starbucks Coffee !!
Wow if it can eat bacon it is better then my dog hahahah
how expensive it is WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
what will hapen if it blasts’s how many years warenty do you give !!!!!!!!!!! ############# %%%%%%%%%%%
yall r nerds
do think it could handle the 2D amazingness of Elder Scrolls 1
i had one of these but i dropped water on it and it broke.
shame
so i bought 2 more just incase another one breaks
thats 12000000000 i spent.
and no it doesnt play halo i feel cheated. but it does play explore disneyland.
i tihnk this computer sucks but i can buy it tho
hat computer is useless
to use it you need a program made to use all of the processors
that is why they cost so much
64 bit progrmas amr made to use 2 cpu’s
but if you run a 32 bit progam on a 64 bit computer it will only use one cpu
so it wont go any faster
I will stay with my pentium4 i bet that pc is good at the things it is mention but cant be used in counter strike. ^^
Only 10 TeraBytes? I was expecting at least 10 PetaBytes, or 1 HetroByte. They sell things for like $150 that give you 1TB of memory. With the money they bought on that, they could of just gotten 1 HB (Hetrobyte, 1000 Petabytes)
I bet it will run atari..
I can buy thi becuse 400.000.000 $ are my pocket money for the week
hmmmm……….your just buying that stuff it can ruin ur life guys
wow 400,000,000$ this shows you why you dont buy pre-built computers from Alien Ware haha te hee
it sounds awesome!!!!!!!
i could at least get 10 easily
I just was on dell.com and you can customize a dell server sooooo much that one unit that is 3u form can cost you $500,000 no joke!!!
ok, so, one insane dell server is $500k,… times that by about 800!!! and you get the price of this setup!!
800 dell servers each with 4 intel 6core xeon processors!! that’s 19,200 processors all clocked at 2.66ghz!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
pure insanity. ;xb
The electric bill is gona be a big one tho…
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL MY GRANDPA HAS THAT HE PLAYED WOW WITH -100000k latency