ackthpt writes "Code named Red Storm, Cray and Sandia National Laboratories (US Dept. of Energy) to build a 100 Teraflop super computer employing AMD's Opteron (Hammer) processors. Alluded to in the WSJ (non-free-as-in-beer subscription required), also in Infoworld, and Reuters."
"what if the transformers was based on real events...and where does linux end up in this scheme."
The Constructicons were probably the Linux bots. They were small parts a of a giant robot called Devastator that was very good at the task at hand. (usually de-construction.) Devastator also had a limited vocabulary so he wasn't the most social. Few Decepticons knew how to give him the right commands to get him to do what he wanted.
-- I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
Cool.. but
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I wonder if it will be as fast as the computer William Shatner and Priceline.com use?
Just imagine...
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...building a supercomputer as a cluster of commodity off-the-shelf personal computers, interconnected with a local area network technology like Ethernet, and running programs written for parallel processing out of those!
I hope they are not putting that supercomputer anywhere near Antarctica.. 16,000 Athlons can get pretty hot resulting in some serious polar melting forcing me to evacuate from New Orleans (we are already underwater).
Re:Heating issues?
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I'm just waiting for Tom's Hardware to do a video with one of these supercomputers in the event of "total cooling failure." Of course, total cooling failure would mean something like the cooling system springs a leak, all the cooling liquid runs out on the floor, the copper cooling panels "fall off" (just like those damned heatsinks are always doing), the laws of thermodynamics are modified by God, and Q decides to change the gravitational constant of the universe bringing the earth unusually close to the sun. This all will likely cause the Opteron CPUs to smoke and burn out, giving Tom an opportunity to point out that if the Pentium 4 were used, it would just slow down to 10 frames per second when playing Quake 3.
Doh! Gotta end this post, the damned heatsink just fell off my Athlon again. Those wacky fucking heatsinks always jumping off.
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Yeah, my heatsink just commited suicide too!
Apparently gripping onto all three tabs on each side of the socket just isn't enough!
We need to devise a solution where the heatsink and CPU are permanantly joined! Yeah, that's the ticket!
Just don't hit the heatsink, or you'll rip the die clean off the board.
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There's something comic-bookish about that name... maybe it's just cos it sounds like a Transformer.
Hokey statistics and ancient misconceptions are no match for a good thought in your head, kid!
Dang! Just imagine a Beow--
Ah, never mind.
(Shuffle, shuffle.)
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
I wonder if it will be as fast as the computer William Shatner and Priceline.com use?
...building a supercomputer as a cluster of commodity off-the-shelf personal computers, interconnected with a local area network technology like Ethernet, and running programs written for parallel processing out of those!
Once again, AMD missed their chance. They should have named the K8 after the male lead on the robot soap-opera that Bender watches on Futurama:
"Calculon! We thought you were dead!"
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computer on earth!!
1. cluster lots of opterons
2. place popcorn on top
3. sell popcorn and cycles
4. profit
I'd like a beowulf cluster of those...
does it play quake?
yeah, but how much longer before it is DRM-enabled to run only MS....
etc..
because I have been enjoined by this Holy Office to abandon the false opinion which maintains that the Sun is the centre
A $254 million loss in a quarter is not very convincing
Find me a US company that didn't lose money last quarter. And anybody who uses Arthur Anderson doesn't count.
and come over to my house, and I will demonstrate.
LETS DECOMPOSE & ENJOY ASSEMBLING
This sort of thing must just be braking all the classic Crayons hearts.
Especially those which got phased out in the age of political correctness like indian Red and Prussian Blue.
Never thought I'd ever be linking to the Enquirer. I feel dirty.
I hope they are not putting that supercomputer anywhere near Antarctica.. 16,000 Athlons can get pretty hot resulting in some serious polar melting forcing me to evacuate from New Orleans (we are already underwater).
I'm just waiting for Tom's Hardware to do a video with one of these supercomputers in the event of "total cooling failure." Of course, total cooling failure would mean something like the cooling system springs a leak, all the cooling liquid runs out on the floor, the copper cooling panels "fall off" (just like those damned heatsinks are always doing), the laws of thermodynamics are modified by God, and Q decides to change the gravitational constant of the universe bringing the earth unusually close to the sun. This all will likely cause the Opteron CPUs to smoke and burn out, giving Tom an opportunity to point out that if the Pentium 4 were used, it would just slow down to 10 frames per second when playing Quake 3.
Doh! Gotta end this post, the damned heatsink just fell off my Athlon again. Those wacky fucking heatsinks always jumping off.
Yeah, my heatsink just commited suicide too!
Apparently gripping onto all three tabs on each side of the socket just isn't enough!
We need to devise a solution where the heatsink and CPU are permanantly joined! Yeah, that's the ticket!
Just don't hit the heatsink, or you'll rip the die clean off the board.
Not All Who Wander Are Lost