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Science Grid Genesis

Posted by michael on from the birth-of-skynet dept.

Cranial Dome writes "According to this Cnet.com story, the Department of Energy (DOE) is working to interconnect the first two computers which will form the genesis of the DOE Science Grid, a virtual supercomputing system which will eventually encompass many more systems at several locations. The larger of the two machines: DOE National Energy Research Science Center's (NERSC) IBM SP RS/6000, a distributed memory machine with 2,944 compute processors. This machine, together with a smaller 160 processor Intel system, will make up a combined 3,328 processor Unix system with 1.3 petabytes(!) of storage space. And this is only the beginning..."

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  1. Dammit... by thelizman · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I submitted this a good hour ago, and now it pops up under someone else who wrote it the same way. WHERE IS THY JUSTICE!

    And yes, I know "grousing" is offtopic, but I'm apt to do it anyway. I've got enough karma to bitch a little.

  2. Re:CYIaBCoX... OW?!!! by daniel_isaacs · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Can you imagine a Beowulf cluster of DOE Science Grids ON WEED?!!!!

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    - Dan I.
  3. Re:genesis? by droolfool · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "religion is a crutch for the weak-minded" -- jessy ventura

    every revolt against religion is a sign that you're one of those pseudo-intelectuals that just choose to criticize everything they don't like (instead of thinking about it before saying stupid lazy-minded marxist slogans :)). Maybe one day people will learn that the human being is pathetic (it's pretty obvious for me).

  4. Re:Dammit... (going OT, deal with it) by llamalicious · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Well, I'll see your grousing, and raise you a karma point.
    Do you realize just how many submissions every hour these poor folks get??

    You may submit one... and just maybe it was your submission that stood out from the hordes of trolls and tweaked their interest enough to look into the story.
    So what if someone else's submission with similar verbage was chosen over yours, it made it onto the site. Good enough for me.
    As long as they aren't practicing nepotism in the submission choosing process (which they probably are,) then it won't bother me.

    A suggestion: write in your journal, post your rants and leave comments enabled. I am sure there are other /.ers who have your point of view... join their ranks. Or participate in the upcoming "slashdot blackout".

    You never know, maybe the person who's story was picked is a subscriber.
    oh well. <soapbox>

    (Moderation totals: Insightful: 1, Troll: 2, Offtopic 3, Total M=mc^2