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De4th_M0nKee  6/10/08 7:17:35 AM
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If quizzes are quizzical, then what are tests?

New fastest super computer. Specs -

The interconnecting system occupies 6,000 square feet with 57 miles of fiber optics and weighs 500,000 pounds. Although made from commercial parts, the computer consists of 6,948 dual-core computer chips and 12,960 cell engines, and it has 80 terabytes of memory.

The cost: $100 million. But hey it can do 1,000 trillion calculations per second!

 

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Nasica  6/10/08 7:53:13 AM
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Being an employee of IBM.
I am very proud that they are the first to break the petaflop barrier.
A mamoth task which took them, as i have read, 6 years and a crap load of work.
 
Man1ac  6/10/08 9:31:15 AM
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Imagine how much FPS you would get on CSS...lol

Xebec  6/10/08 10:49:43 AM
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Insane.

Wonder if it's really worth the investment though.
 
Techleo  6/10/08 12:32:03 PM
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Is it over yet...

   A system like this would definitely be worth the investment for physic experiments. A lot of the time the experiments have so many resultant numbers it would take anything but a supercomputer generations to extrapolate results. Even computers like the Roadrunner are primitive due to the limitations of how it stores memories.

  Take a human brain and study how it stores memories. Apply that to a computer. Then your cooking with gas... and you have a nice little Skynet.

 
grunty  6/10/08 5:29:08 PM
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I''ll snatch you bald-headed!

 

Beep, beep.
 
olddaddy  6/10/08 6:04:25 PM
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Originally posted by grunty

 

Beep, beep.


A Plymouth Superbird.........GAWD I WANTED ONE OF THESE WHEN I WAS IN HIGH SCOOL!!!!!!
 
Nasica  6/10/08 6:21:39 PM
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I love the fact that it is a suped-up Playstation 3 though....
It uses Cell Broadband Engines, the same chip used in PS3's.

And who said the gaming industry was a waste of time.....
 
Par-Salian  6/10/08 9:52:07 PM
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Originally posted by Techleo

   A system like this would definitely be worth the investment for physic experiments. A lot of the time the experiments have so many resultant numbers it would take anything but a supercomputer generations to extrapolate results. Even computers like the Roadrunner are primitive due to the limitations of how it stores memories.

  Take a human brain and study how it stores memories. Apply that to a computer. Then your cooking with gas... and you have a nice little Skynet.

Skynet....lol.