Two Directions for the Future of Supercomputing

Posted by timothy on Monday June 24, 2002 @08:11PM 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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oh man by LemurShop · 2002-06-24 21:25 · Score: 0, Offtopic

oh man, imagine two beowulf clusters of these babies!

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Just imagine by af_robot · 2002-06-24 21:53 · Score: 0, Offtopic

how Earth collapses into black hole after turning on beowulf cluster of such computers.
Hehe by Cave+Dweller · 2002-06-24 21:54 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Green Destiny belongs to a class of makeshift supercomputers called Beowulf clusters.

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U:mubme P:mutter by oliverthered · 2002-06-24 22:09 · Score: 1, Offtopic

Tis done

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