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Teragrid: Massive Grid Computing
onyxcide writes: "Envision is running a quick article on a new national grid of computing resources called TeraGrid. Half a petabyte of disk storage, 40-gigabyte-per-second national optical backbone, and 13 teraflops of computing power will make up this monster. It will allow "lavish amounts of online data to be continually available for instantaneous analysis, data mining, and knowlege synthesis." There's another article in the same magazine here: Transforming Research with High-Performance Grid Computing" LighthouseJ adds some details: "C|Net's news.com has a story about a new Compaq supercomputer named Terascale. It uses 3,000 Alpha EV68 processors distributed over 750 servers using networking systems from Quadrics. They say it can perform as fast as 10,000 desktop PC's combined in one second. The massive computer will make it's official debut on Monday at the Supercomputing Center in Pittsburgh PA."
...someone *not* making a lame Beowulf cluster joke about these? No, I couldn't either.
C - A language that combines the speed of assembly with the ease of use of assembly.
I tried combining 10.000 PC's once. Took me, my friends and a bulldozer all weekend.
Counterstrike would run at, like, a billion frames a second!
I bet Square's pissed they didn't come up with that until _after_ they'd spent all that time rendering the FF movie. 10 megs a frame or some silliness like that? Sheesh.
Well, the parachute pants might slow him down a bit.