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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"
Maybe that beowolfgangcluster could do something aboot their loosy beer.
Trouble accessing sites the next couple of weeks? Blame Canada!
oh come on, :) +1 funny
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Stupid moderators, it was a joke.
Go get some sleep.
...never mind
We must be alert to the danger that public policy could become captive to a scientific-technological elite. - Eisenhower
Actually, Canadian's don't say "aboot", they say "aboat". Get it right!
--something witty
Screw virtual super computers. Make the equivalant of a beowolf cluster of telescopes!
'Virtual telescope' is world's best
http://cooltech.iafrica.com/technews/167248.htm
Several international teams of astronomers have joined together to create a "virtual telescope" roughly the size of Earth and the most powerful in the world, researchers have announced.
The new array can detect features 3000 times smaller than the finest detail observed by the Hubble Space Telescope.
The virtual telescope was created earlier this year by linking signals from radio telescopes on several continents. Scientists have subsequently found radio signals from galaxies over three billion light years away.
You say things that offend me and I can deal with it. Can you?