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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.
Why Canadian Beer sucks? ...or is it the more trying...
What can we add to hockey rinks to make hockey more interesting?
"Life's funny sometimes." "And sometimes it isn't." --Cat's Cradle
nicely done for a darkie
getting it good to the wood so the people give you some of that reacting to the fax that i kick and it stick and it stay around pointing to the joint put the buddha down.
(blood in the wood and it's mine)
you are a moron
How many computers would it take to count all the world's Canadian jokes?
With all due respect, and I'm a Canadian and I have served in our nation's armed forces, I think this is past tense. The logic of keeping piles of generals handy to suddenly recruit and train a whack of soldiers is kind of broken, given the nature of modern conflicts.
:(
I *wish* we could actually help out some of the places that really need help right now. But we can't even keep a thousand guys in Afghanistan for a year, let alone buy those guys some appropriate camouflage fatigues in a timely fashion. And don't get me started on the Sea King or its replacements....
For a country with some of the best individual soldiers in the world, we've been treating our military like absolute crap for far too long for it not to show
But I guess that's okay as long as our PM gets his new jets.... @@!%%$!!
-- Mal: "Well they tell you: never hit a man with a closed fist. But it is, on occasion, hilarious."
#357 IBM Netfinity Cluster PIII 1 GHz - Eth Government Canada 2002 Classified