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Most Powerful Computer in Canada - for a Day
An anonymous reader writes "On Nov. 4, 18 Canadian universities and will create the most powerful computer in Canada for a day to solve an important computational chemistry question in one day -- a task that would normally take six years to complete." Here is more information on the temporary supercomputer available at the project's home page and at UofG's News.
There goes Will Wheaton, showing off again. That bastard. I thought Picard got rid of that young twerp once and for all.
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Sounds like they want to play DoomIII (http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/03/15202 40&mode=nested&tid=127) alpha witha good frame rate.
Wow, sent an e-mail as suggested when clicking on "use classic" banner, and got a fast response that addressed my msg
Coincidentally, on Nov 4, Canadian Universities will create the world's first beer-cooled supercomputer, "Drunk Blue".
When asked why beer, the researchers involved explained that it was both plentiful and "what else would you use Blue for?".
"They do not preach that their god will rouse them, a little before the Nuts work loose." Kipling, 'The Sons of Martha'
Can it survive with the Slashdot effect?
imagine a beowulf clu... err.. wait.. dammit..
"The ones who dont do anything are always the ones who try to pull you down" -- Henry Rollins
For when you absolutely, positively need that chemistry problem solved by the next day.
>>18 Canadian universities and will create
If the anonymous submitter happens to be from one of the 18 universities, I don't have much hope for this.
Unless they're trying to analyze the sentence structure of All Your Base.
It's not only Canada's most powerful supercomputer, it's the only one controlled from space.
Carousel is a lie!
Canada is clustering all of their fishing ships to create the most powerful Canadian navy yet.
I'll form my OWN solar system! With blackjack! And hookers!
... Actually this means I'll have to wait an extra day to work on my project for my distributed / parallel computing course. So this experiment also gets to help me procrastinate :)
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First the alarming lead in Zamboni technology, now this!!
The government of canada has some very powerfull supercomputers used for weather.
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I don't think it takes a supercomputer to predict the weather in Canada
The site appears to be solidly withstanding a thorough and complete slashdotting!! The only rational explanation is that the most powerful computer in Canadia is running their web site right now! As they say in French-Canadian, c'est incredible.
quick, everyone go to the original article and post the highly moderated posts as your own in this one!
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Hmph. I remember back in January of '98 when I had the most powerful computer in Canada! Just me, my laptop, some cold soup from a can, and some candles...
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Yeah, yeah. This is only funny to those who don't live in Canada, of course.
.... 99.5% of the world's population?
That would be.... let's see
And probably about 70% of Slashdot's population. Not sure if you noticed, but there is a very high percentage of Canadians who visit Slashdot. I suspect it's due to that national program to integrate high speed into our igloo clusters.
Wil Wheaton is an actor. Wesley Crusher is a fictional character...
In other news, Canada, its ego buoyed by its success in the computing arena, declares war on the rest of the world, citing the rest of the worlds "blatant inferiority".
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(/me ducks)
The American Version will do it 48% faster and not try to compare itself to the Canadian version.