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IBM Working on Brain-Rivaling Computer

Obdurate writes "The first supercomputers to approach and even surpass the processing power of the human brain are to be built by IBM, under a $184M contract announced by the US Government yesterday. ASCI Purple and Blue Gene/L will be the fastest and most powerful machines built, with a combined capacity equal to the 500 best of todays computers."

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  1. Re:Whose brain? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Rush Limbaugh is intelligent. Pat Robertson is a bible thumping closet cock gobbler.

    Fuck off you liberal scum.

  2. IBM's Brain computer is Dying. by grub · · Score: 0, Troll

    It is official; Netcraft now confirms: IBMs_Brain is dying

    One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered IBMs_Brain community when IDC confirmed that IBMs_Brain market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent. Coming close on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that IBMs_Brain has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. IBMs_Brain is collapsing in complete disarray.

    You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict IBMs_Brain's future. The hand writing is on the wall: IBMs_Brain faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for IBMs_Brain because IBMs_Brain is dying. Things are looking very bad for IBMs_Brain. As many of us are already aware, IBMs_Brain continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.

    Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.

    All major surveys show that IBMs_Brain has steadily declined in market share. IBMs_Brain is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If IBMs_Brain is to survive at all it will be among dilettante dabblers. IBMs_Brain continues to decay. Nothing short of a cockeyed miracle could save IBMs_Brain from its fate at this point in time. For all practical purposes, IBMs_Brain is dead.


    Fact: IBMs_Brain is dying

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  3. Cooling? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I wonder how it could be cooled...

  4. test by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    hi

  5. BLUE GENE/L WILL RUN LINUX!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    The faster one of those, BLUE GENE/L RUNS LINUX!!! Read it on news.com article !!! The world's fastest computer will run Linux! It's a praise to the open source developers!

  6. Re:Smarter! was: Re:uhu by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    You underestimate your abilities by far - ever seen robots playing soccer?

    Soccer sucks, and robots playing soccer sucks even more.

    Ever seen a monkey in a clown suit?

    Ever hang out in men's locker rooms?

    Ever been in a Turkish prison?

    You know the rest.

  7. No, you don't seem to get it. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    You still don't get it, do you? It's all about ZEROS and ONES! That's the way it has ALWAYS been! It could be build from lightbulbs if they really wanted it to be that way. Moron.