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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. I have an idea by dimator · · Score: 2, Redundant

    We all know that NYtimes requires registration by now. Can we skip the damn warning every time there's a story there?

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    python -c "x='python -c %sx=%s; print x%%(chr(34),repr(x),chr(34))%s'; print x%(chr(34),repr(x),chr(34))"
    1. Re:I have an idea by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant

      If you haven't seen it you should check out The Random NYTimes Registration Generator . Very useful