Canada to Launch Countrywide Virtual SuperComputer

LadyCatra writes "A serious shortage of world-class computing power in Canada prompted University of Alberta scientists to create the next best thing -- a countrywide, virtual supercomputer. On Nov. 4, thousands of computers from research centres across the country will be strung together by a U of A effort to create the most powerful computer in this country. The full story is here"

Comments

What if it gains conciousness?

[Anonymous Coward]

Anyway, before activating It, make sure It doesn't have any access to a spare nuclear warhead on orbit around Earth.

Re:What if it gains conciousness?

[DasBub]

If it were to gain consciousness, it'd just start watching hockey, eating poutine, and wearing toques... ...but really really fast.

Re:Why build a new, separate system?

[RobinH]

I don't understand why they feel the need to isolate their Canadian initiative, rather than giving Canada the access to computing power far greater than they can acheive on their own.

Probably because the Canadian researchers got tired of hearing things like, "so, ye'all are from Keaynada, huh? We was just sittin up on the ruff and be drinkin sum pap."