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Cringely Wants A Supercomputer in Every Garage
Nate LaCourse writes: "Real good one from Cringely this month. It's on building his own supercomputer, but with some twists." You'll probably also want to check out the KLAT2 homepage to learn more about their Flat Neighborhood Network. And since KLAT2 has been around for nearly a year (check out the poster on this page!), perhaps a 3rd generation is in the works?
how sad...
Make sure it has a red dot and says things like "Dave, what are you doing Dave?" Can't wait for mine!
Satanists get good grades too...suspiciously good grades
Barada Ni*cough cough*
A story that beowulf cluster posts will be relevant to!
Remember, there were no nuclear weapons before women were allowed to vote.
And it shall be called. . . Earth!
You want the truthiness? You can't handle the truthiness!
Those are some interesting ideas.
Now how about organizing them before publishing them? Call me pre-postmodern (and I'm still in my twenties), but I tend to learn more from a coherently-organized message than from a random jumble of statistics and facts. Cringely jumps from a detailed description of the KLAT2 and its innovative networking technology to a brief description of UWB. And then it's over.
Maybe I'm missing something.
"First you gotta do the truffle shuffle."
Well, not to be one of those stick in the mud 'Read the %($#ING article' type people, KLAT2 is a reference to The Day The Earth Stood Still. Had you looked at the articles in question (particularly, the KLAT2 page) you would have discovered that indeed, they were intending the reference. Heck, go check it out - the poster they made up for it is worth the look! :-)
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Maybe they could set things up so that ALL his articles hit the main page as soon as he posts them.
If this were the case he could put a "discuss this article" link on his page and simply link to /.
Lasers Controlled Games!
Also, if everybody had a supercomputer in their garage, they would no longer be so "super."
...a single-CPU version of this!
"(the operating system) will be QNX, a real time OS that supports massive parallelism and has very low overhead. QNX is fast! QNX is also Posix compliant, so there is lots of software that almost works under it."
If you're looking for software that almost works, I know of an OS that might fit your needs. You're not going to hook this thing up to the Internet, though, are you?
1) heat in garage in winter
2) Top 10 in Seti@home
3) Porno-ize you favorite anime (Final Fantasy anyone?)
4) Why are you reading this? I thought you were doing #3
make Linux, not Microsoft. sin(beast) = -0.809016994374947424102293417182819