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?

Comments

Re:What is 10base-100?

[SuzanneA]

As I understood it, 10base-100 was the original name for what most people call 100base-TX these days. Some people still seem to refer to it as 10base-100.

Btw, a little nitpick, the TX would refer to 4 pair (all 8 conductors), 10base-T uses 2 pair, 10base-TX and 100base-TX use all 4 pairs.

Re:Am I the only one?

[dangermouse]

"Klaatu barata nikto."

I think it translates to "Klaatu says not", but I'm basing that off of a half-assed knowledge of German ("nikto" -> "nicht"), the similarity between "barata" and "berate", and context. Maybe there's some kinda Latin thing in there somewhere, idunno. It's the instruction Klaatu tells Love Interest to give to Gort the robot, so he won't destroy the entire planet.

And since someone asked, yeah, that's the same line whatsisface has to use in "Army of Darkness", and it was the only part of that lame movie I can remember laughing at.

Now, the question is: Will I get modded down because this is actually offtopic as hell, or because I insulted "Army of Darkness"? %-)

only fastest one percent is supercomputer

[peter303]

By definition only the fastest devices are supercomputers. These days that is about a teraflop. Thta includes the US DOE ASCI series and the announced installation of the Blue Storm and Blue Gene IBM computers. Ten gigaflop computers a dime a dozen and a hundred gigaflops not so rare.