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Two Directions for the Future of Supercomputing

Posted by timothy on from the thattaway dept.

aarondsouza writes: "The NY Times (registration required, mumble... mutter...) has this story on two different directions being taken in the supercomputing community. The Los Alamos labs have a couple of new toys. One built for raw numbercrunching speed, and the other for efficiency. The article has interesting numbers on the performance/price (price in the power consumption and maintenance sense) ratios for the two machines. As an aside... 'Deep Blue', 'Green Blade' ... wonder what Google Sets would think of that..."

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  1. mubme, mutter ? by selderrr · · Score: 5, Funny

    "The NY Times (registration required, mumble... mutter..."

    next time you put "registration" between brackets, followed by two words, you better make sure that those two words are userID and paswd !

    I really wonder what the NYT logfile-monkeys think when they see a zillion 'mumble/mutter' login attempts...

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    1. Re:mubme, mutter ? by whm · · Score: 4, Funny


      > "The NY Times (registration required, mumble... mutter..."

      I really wonder what the NYT logfile-monkeys think when they see a zillion 'mumble/mutter' login attempts...
      Well, they'll probably be wondering why the user I (genuinely) just registered - userid = 'mumble...', password = 'mutter...' - is logging in from so many damn IP's :)

      ~whm

  2. Re:Google set reply - OT by wirefarm · · Score: 3, Funny

    (Time to burn a point or 10...)

    Never having seen Google Sets before, I typed in:
    Cmdr Taco
    Hemos

    It expanded it to:

    Predicted Items
    Hemos
    Cmdr Taco
    The Andover brunette
    The blonde masseuse
    CmdrTaco
    Mel Gibson
    Martha Stewart
    The me redhead
    Purple Bikini Girl

    I'd love to know how it came up with those results...

    Cheers,
    Jim in Tokyo

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  3. Just imagine... by JanusFury · · Score: 2, Funny

    A beowulf cluster of... of... *collapses from sudden heart attack*

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