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ASCI White Detonates The First E-Bomb
totallygeek writes "Redefining the term vaporware, research scientists at Lost Alamos and Lawrence Livermore Labs detonated two computer simulations. ASCI White, the world's fastest supercomputer, ran the simulations of nuclear explosions. Scientists can now study nuclear weapon replacement components without violating the nuclear test ban, in effect since 1992.
Each simulation used more than 6.6 million CPU hours, which would take home machines 1000 years to complete. The data for each experiment was equivalent to 35 times the information available in the Library of Congress. ASCI White currently operates at 12 teraflops, but by early next year, Los Alamos expects to operate at 30 teraflops.
The seven month research project ended last Friday, and now the system is ready for use, after its sucessful testing."
Imagine a beowulf cluster of these.....
...we are from the government - we are here to help...
set up us the bomb!
But who needs a simulation? If you have an Athlon, just jiggle the fan off and watch the thing in real life!
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I must say this ASCII stuff has come a long way since the days of the dial-up BBS.
: )
Don't read this!
...I wonder if they could answer a question for me. Will it really only be cockroaches and Keith Richards that would live through a nuclear war?
This gives me bad flashbacks of "War Games" for some reason. I sure hope ASCI White sucks at tic tac toe.
Maybe we could talk them into running a Medal of Honor: Allied Assualt? They could bill is as a "stratigic nazi slaying simulation".
(/local/home/curiosity)-#who -u|grep thecat|cut -c 44-49|xargs kill -9
Obviously within a limited problem scope that the machine would be good at. I just wish they were a bit more explicit about this so that non-techies won't tell me how they're worried that machines will be watching them and manipulating them ala-HAL all of a sudden.
Then again why would a non-techie even browse to that page anyway? Never mind.
Who saw the headline and thought that they had finally invented giant EMP-bombs, a-la science fiction?
[PowerPoint] is a tool for capitalist presentation
There's supposed to be an earth shattering kaboom.
At a peak computational performance of 12.28 teraflops, or trillions of calculations per second, it could simultaneously process web transactions for every man, woman, and child on the planet in one minute.
/.'ers let's get this puppy online and see if we have truly met our match or not....
Come on fellow
Rouge nations? What, do you dress them up like whores?
I you're gonna be a dumbass, learn to spell. Rogue
The title of the Star Trek episode where warring
planets conducted battles completely thru computer
simulation. This advance takes us closer to that
future possibilty.
But, instead of modeling Nuclear detonations, I
think the interests of warfare could also be served by setting up an ASCI White as a massive
international UT server, and let national conflicts be settled by a nice game of capture
the flag.
Best two out of three?
If I may make a suggestion, I would like to see this beast of a super-computer used to assist the SETI@home project...
:-)
With this thing's horsepower I would expect to have conclusive findings of extra terrestial life within a matter of weeks and be shaking hands with E.T. by the end of summer...
Also, I must throw in the obligatory comment of "wouldn't you just love a beowulf cluster of these things...".
Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. -- Benjamin Franklin
I read the headline as "ASCII white detonated the first E-bomb"
Wait... ASCII, dumb terminals, email bombs, endless buzzers...it's all coming back to me now.
Isn't this out of date? Next will be "Mainframe successfully runs up to ten users on terminals"
Oh, wait, nuclear bombs simulations. Ok. Never mind. Sorry.
I'll do the obligatory "imagine a Beowulf cluster of these" joke, shall I?
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Karma: Chameleon (you come and go)
Would it be less sad if it also played chess?
Just wondering....how would this help with cancer research projects?
They auction off server time to people who want to have the ultimate round of Counter-Strike and then donate the money to cancer research.
Greenpeace immediately responded by running simulations of anti-nuke protests on an old 486 sitting on a card table outside Lawrence Livermore Labs.
so what, it still takes 1 min to process a web request simultainiusly for every man, woman and child on earth...its not that great :-)
I am the Alpha and the Omega-3
Well, fallout causes cancer doesn't it?
Yea, I wonder if they have a soundcard in the thing, hooked up to a big-ass speaker system?
(Score: -1, Treasonous)
Seditious. If you're going to get hanged, make sure it's for the correct crime!
0xB
The wristwatch you wear will contain many many times more computing power than this :D
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Welcome to Iraq. Please download your copy of sadam@home...
--locust
I don't fear any counrty that developes it's own nuclear bomb - a cretain amount of civilisation is required in order to achieve such a feat.
Specifically, you need Nuclear Power and Rocketry, plus you need to build the Manhattan Project. Except the damn Mongols keep put SDI Defense everywhere.
Toronto-area transit rider? Rate your ride.
Please, something this important would not be left to selection, Kazaa would just automatically load it for you.
Makes you wonder what the government has that its /not/ telling us about... heh
1. the Roswell Saucer
2. the Aurora project
3. Jimmy Hoffa
4. secret moonbase on the far side of Luna
5. the 2000 Presidential election results
Mmmmmm... Bold, yet refreshing!
When you get bored trying to help us find alien life with SETI@home, why don't you help us get rid of the life already here, with nuclearannihilation@home.
huhuhu uhhuhuhuhu uhuhuhu.