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."
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).
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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!
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!
and come over to my house, and I will demonstrate.
LETS DECOMPOSE & ENJOY ASSEMBLING
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).