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10-TFlop Computer Built from Standard PC Parts
OrangeTide writes "Using PCI host adapters and Xeon processors, engineers at Lawrence Livermore National Labs have achieved 10-TFlops relatively cheaply. More information can be obtained from this article at EETimes." Lately, Linux seems to be the operating system of choice for new supercomputers, and this one's no different. It's cool to see big iron made cheaply.
A commodity supercomputing cluster of these! (There has to be a better name for it, but I'm new here on Slashdot).
... which was specifically developed for running Doom III.
Like Teddy with an elephant gun.
As long as it doesn't see a full moon, then it won't turn into...
Beowulf!
zzziiiippp!!!!(I love the smell of nomex in the morning!)
Then the world will finally see the 4000 Playstation 2's that Saddam used to build a supercomputer
Look, all the 'cool' people are doing Linux, right? But BIG IRON is clearly trying to suck you and your money in. Oh, it's so cheap, but they don't tell you about the hidden costs, do they?
Just say no to BIG IRON!
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the Search for Extremely Trivial Iterations at home.
Prime numbers are exactly what Alan Greenspan says they are -S. Minsky
I know you "signed papers", but all McDonald's employees have to sign that application before they can start working. And just because you FLIPS a lot of burgers doesn't make you an expert on supercomputers.
Extraordinary Vacations. Exceptional Prices
I have a lot of movies to convert to DIVX...
I told you my other Boxen was a 1000 node beowulf cluster... But no one believed my sticker...
Sigs? We don't need no stinking sigs!
Were I work (I can't say where... I've signed papers...)
Are you referring to this part of your CV?
Gardening
Juli 7 - 27 1986 i managed a group of tomato plants.
Yes! I used the cluster to compute the correct amount of water for each plant, considering cloudiness, temperature, time in direct sun light and how far each particular plant had grown. :)
This just in...a computer has just been built with...and you won't believe this: computer parts!
Slashdot.org is there!
I'll form my OWN solar system! With blackjack! And hookers!
"I was doing my nuclear simulations on the ASCII White and it was like BEEP BEEP BEEP...and like half my work was gone..."
"I'm tired of all this 'Aren't humanity great' bullshit. We're a virus with shoes" - Bill Hicks
Mini computers are the dinosaurs of old.
Hey, wouldn't dinosaurs be the dinosaurs of old? Mini computers would be the dinosaurs of kinda recent. =)
You don't need Geeksintraining if you're on Slashdot.
i might be showing my age here, but you'd probably still get said sand kicked in your face
Come on; you know what we'll do with this; what we do with every major technological advance: new, more realistic, and more processor-intensive pr0n.
are the significant computational problems associated with the development of nuclear weapons easy to parallelize
Well, we could tell you yes/no/maybe, but then we'd have to whisk you away to that Nevada military base that does not exist (-:
"We have been using the File Transfer Protocol over Gigabit Ethernet, but now we will be able to read files directly from any available disk."
translation
We used to use FTP over Gig-E but came up with something more L337.
Trolling is a art,
... and then we can give Slartibartfast the award for his lovely work on fjords.
"For every right, an equal responsibility..."
a race between engineers trying to make faster and better computers and Microsoft trying to make more bloated and processor-heavy operating systems. So far, Microsoft is winning.
Technoli