Million-core Supercomputer Barrier Broken By Stanford!  Over the
years computer manufacturers have increased the number of CPU
core counts in modern computers. Stanford Researchers have
passed a new mile stone by reaching over 1 million CPU cores in
a super computer. In fact they broke 1 million by a large margin
with 1,572,864 compute cores or processors. One would ask what
do you do with over one million CPU cores? Stanford is using
them to simulate fluid dynamics. Their end goal is to be able to
reduce the noise of high performance air craft engines. Here is
a excerpt from the article.   Researchers at the Center for
Turbulence Research set a new record in supercomputing,
harnessing a million computing cores to model supersonic jet
noise. Work was performed on the newly installed Sequoia IBM
Bluegene/Q system at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories.
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