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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.'"

2 of 174 comments (clear)

  1. 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.

  2. 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...