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Teragrid: Massive Grid Computing

Posted by timothy on from the pocket-calculator-of-the-future dept.

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."

11 of 115 comments (clear)

  1. Half a petabyte of DICK storage? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    What's THAT mean?

    I'm a lumberjack and I'm okay.

  2. first pro-troll troll! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    egg troll fucking kicks ass!

    propz to muh ded homiez!

  3. ep by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    This early post for Ida!

  4. More importantly... by Fembot · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Does it run quake 3???? ;-)

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

    in your eye.

    thank you.

  6. FP!!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ahahahahhaahha

  7. GOATSE LINK!!! by cr@ckwhore · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Be warned... I learned the hard way.

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    1. Re:GOATSE LINK!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
      I learned the hard way.

      Tstststs ;)

  8. Re:MOD DOWN by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Uggh, -25?????? That's nothing to be proud of.
    Now get to some serious trolling!



    This coming from a -150 :)

  9. Re:Could you imagine... by IMAGlNE · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Imagine

    Imagine there's no heaven
    It's easy if you try
    No hell below us
    Above us only sky
    Imagine all the people
    Living for today...

    Imagine there's no countries
    It isn't hard to do
    Nothing to kill or die for
    And no religion too
    Imagine all the people
    Living life in peace...

    You may say I'm a dreamer
    But I'm not the only one
    I hope someday you'll join us
    And the world will be as one

    Imagine no possessions
    I wonder if you can
    No need for greed or hunger
    A brotherhood of man
    Imagine all the people
    Sharing all the world...

    You may say I'm a dreamer
    But I'm not the only one
    I hope someday you'll join us
    And the world will live as one

  10. Re:Technology is not the problem ... by unitron · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Perhaps the moderator who decided to label the parent to this post as "flamebait" would be kind enough to explain, either here or in an email to me, just what it was about the post which struck them that way. They must have a much different perspctive on it than do I.

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