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IBM's Blue Gene powered by Linux
bigjnsa500 writes "Linux will be the main operating system for IBM's upcoming family of 'Blue Gene' supercomputers--a major endorsement for the operating system and the open-source computing model it represents. Blue Gene/L, the first member of the family, will contain 65,000 processors and 16 trillion bytes of memory. Due in 2004 or 2005, the system will be able to perform 200 trillion calculations per second. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory will use the system for performing nuclear weapons simulations." Blue Gene has been announced for some time, but it's cool to see how it's shaping up.
Hmm, I wonder why they chose to use SCO's OS. You would think with all the lawsuits they would try to stay away from SCO's software...
Maybe not - but given IBM's history, it might be great at playing chess.
Or Tic-Tac-Toe, given the nuclear weapons simulation angle.
In other news, Levi's has announced a lawsuit against IBM, citing the name of the server line could confuse their customers.
Manipulate the moderator system! Mod someone as "overrated" today.
The IBM research team is currently running a large Linux cluster to simulate Blue Gene.
So then why don't have we have the simulation of Blue Gene run a simulation of Blue Gene two, and that run a simulation of a quantum computer, and that run a simulation of Deep Thought? Then that can run a simulation of the rest of the universe.
Then the two will bicker and argue about who's real, whom created whom, and millions of Matrix freaks will yell "I told you!!!" to those who have ridiculed them so many, many years.
Ahhh, you are forgetting the army of overpriced IBM consultants that you'll have to hire to install the thing.
Well, since it will be running nuclear weapons simulations, they might get around to simulating the half life of plutonium...
--guru
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Good frame rate for Quake 3??
AA on or off?
VSynch on or off?
but what kind of video card does it have? will have 65,536 monitor support?
65,000 processors x $699/processor= $45,435,000. 45.4 million dollars.
Don't you just know Daryl's about to go apoplectic over all that money IBM is "stealing". Let's face it, he has to really believe in his private universe.
May he pop a blood vessel.
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Perform some nuclear "tests" beforehand to ensure their next legal strategy against SCO will be effective. . . .
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There they go using that unconstitutionally licensed OS again... with our tax dollars too. .. that will be able to perform a quadrillion calculations per second (one petaflop)...
That oughta give 'em the firepower to prototype the nuclear WMD that can surgically remove the state of Utah without bothering the neighbors.
Are they trying to pack more megatons of destructive force into each warhead?
:)
Nope, they're trying to create a massive War-Sim in which nation-heads could raise war for a real deal.
"I'll nuke your a$$ unless you inflat your yuan."
"I don't fear your but I don't want to mess up the houses and railroads I spent three months on. You can get 6 yuan for 1 and you must neutralize a warhead in reallife as part of the deal."
"too late butthead, it has been launched already.Frankly, I just want to see how it explodes"
I can dream can I?
Michael Jackson has released a new hit single that denounces this upstart of a project as anything but his lover.
They were going to name it "Billy Gene" but the name "Blue Gene" just "Beat It".
Yeah, 9th grade was like some sort of nightmare for me which seems to just live on and on...
It's called government grant money.
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Dear Linus,
the kernel is becoming slightly unstable with more than 10 trillion bytes and 65000 CPUs, please try to reproduce the situation. See the attached memory dump file.
A computer that can run Doom 3!
Noone wants Blue Screens on their Blue Genes!
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