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Cray SV1 Named Best Supercomputer for 2001

Posted by Hemos on from the and-the-winnnaaahhh dept.

zoombat writes "The BBC reported that the Cray SV1 product line won the Readers' Choice Award for Best Supercomputer for 2001 by the readers of Scientific Computing & Instrumentation magazine. These beasts have some pretty remarkable stats, including a 300 Mhz CPU clock, up to 192 4.8 GFLOPS CPUs or 1229 1.2 GFLOPS CPUs, and up to a terabyte of memory. And they sure know how to paint 'em real nice. Of course, we all know how "scientific" the Readers' Choice Awards are..."

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  1. Sorry, but it has to be said... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Can you imagine a Beowolf cluster of those suckers?!?

    1. Re:Sorry, but it has to be said... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      No, I can't. Why don't you tell me what it would be like, you wise anonymous coward?

  2. fdas by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    the 20 second thing got me

  3. Can you imagine.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    a Beowulf cluster of these?

  4. Guess who won the award for most photogenic? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The answer is here.

    (Now come on, that was pretty funny. I know, I know, I guess it might be a troll, but it's still _funny_)

  5. Ass stretching by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I stretched my girlfriend's asshole last night. I ain't the giver, but I still gave her a good bum-ride with my creamstick. That's for sure.