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Supercomputer To Use Optical Router

Posted by timothy on from the is-the-computer dept.

Izmunuti writes "From a NYTimes article: 'Highlighting a radical departure in the design of the fastest computers, the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology plans to announce on Monday that it will use an optical router designed by a Texas company as the heart of a campus-wide supercomputer that will be woven together with optical fibers.'"

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  1. Now we just need.. by Lord+Bitman · · Score: 4, Funny

    A pure optical router using analog signals which are passed through a crystal and output at certain locations based purely on their wavelength(wich coresponds to the exact binary data of the full packet) and the path which the light beam is forced to take! HA! Ha HA! MWUAHAHAHAHAHAHAA!
    >:D

    What? It could happen...

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  2. Speaking of Supercomputers, IBM is building HAL by toupsie · · Score: 4, Funny
    Forbes is reporting: ASCI Purple will run at 100 teraflops, or 100 trillion calculations per second, 8 times faster than its current supercomputer ASCI White and at a speed equivalent to the human brain, IBM said.

    HAL will be born a few years late...

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  3. yikes... by ryochiji · · Score: 4, Funny
    From the NYT article:
    >"the communications lines will be the fastest part of the computer and the processors will become slower "peripherals."

    Just imagine....

    Us:Back in my days, the processor used to be called the central processing unit, and everything else was a peripheral!
    Kids:Sheesh dad, you're old! Everyone knows that the processor's the slowest part.
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  4. Optical Router, Supercomputers... by HappyCycling · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...And it still gets Slashdotted...

  5. Forced to go optical by Sponge+Bath · · Score: 5, Funny

    Because the previous attempt to implement a campus wide supercomputer using an RFC 1149 based network caused the pigeons to burst into flames.

  6. has to be said.... by bsDaemon · · Score: 5, Funny

    i am the cl-itit commander. no one rules the cl-itit like me. not this little fucker, not any of you little fuckers...