The "Space cube"

Can you imagine a computer with a shape of cube, which size is only 5 sm.?

The Japanese corporation “Shimafuji” made it a month ago and called it “Space cube”. It is the smallest computer in the world and is projected for the International Space Station.

The mini computer have processor with maximum frequency of 300 MHz and flash memory 16 Mb. The operational memory is Linux Red Hat works with Compact flash and is placed in one of its slots. The memory of the hard disk is 64 Mb (SDRam).

The computer have the following ports – LAN, USB, Ethernet and have other additional extra Space Wire, which permit it to work with another devices.

Chinese supercomputer make 100 trillion operations per second

In China have been created supercomputer which is able to perform 100 trillion operations per second and with its calculative power it enter into ten fastest computers in the world. The supercomputer have the name "Shuguan-5000" and is developed jointly by the Institute of computing equipment to the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the company Shuguan.

The peak computing power of “Shuguan-5000” reaches 230 teraflops. Based on the method LINPACK, adopted to measuring the performance of the supercomputers productivity of the supecomputer is 160 trillion operations per second.

China became the second country after the U.S. managed to create such supercomputer which output exceed 100 teraflops.

In the beginning of 2008 year China announced the creation of its own supecomputer, with a computing power which reaches one trillion operations per second. Then the Chinese developers have expressed their intention that to end of the year they want to create a computer which computing power to reach 100 teraflops. At the end of August 2008 they reported that in 2010 based on its own processors Godson 3 will create a power supercomputer with power of one fiveflop.

Supercomputer from game consoles

Astrophysics from the University of Massachusetts built supercomputer from 16 game consoles PlayStation 3.

Sony's devices are connected via Ethernet adapters, and the whole system works under Linux. Professor Gaurav Hannah uses the supercomputer for testing the activity of the black holes. With its calculations invention, the scientist describe the properties of the gravitational field, that occurs with a collision of black holes. PS3 consoles use processors Cell.

Except for video games, these chips are used for processing streaming video with high resolution, in cluster calculations and in supercomputers.

Connecting of 16 PS3 consoles in one system provides a power as a PC with four hundred processor.

At the end of last year the Japanese company gave the professor from the University of Massachusetts eight of its entertainment devices, with which Hannah started the study of black holes