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Big Mac Officially Ranks 3rd

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the thats-a-lotta-mips dept.

An anonymous reader noted that according to Wired, it will be announced officially on Monday the Big Mac supercomputer is the third-fastest super-computer. The article also talks about some of the amazing supercomputers in the planning stages. The sort of stuff that will make Big Mac look like that old TI-85 collecting dust in your drawer.

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  1. I'm still using my TI85.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...you insensitive clod!

    1. Re:I'm still using my TI85.... by pvt_medic · · Score: 2, Funny

      well you can always make fun of the apollo space mission. What were there computers like?

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    2. Re:I'm still using my TI85.... by uncleFester · · Score: 2, Funny

      Actually, I'm a little more concerned Senor Taco knows my Ti85 is in my drawer. WTF are you doing breaking into my house and inventorying my old dead hardware?!? Is this the geek form of TIPS?

      Egad,

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  2. Yes, but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    ...what does the Quarter Pounder(c) rank in the all-american taste test?

    1. Re:Yes, but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

      It's called a royale with cheese you insensitive clod.

  3. Trademark infringement by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Excuse me, but Big Mac is a registered trademark of McDonald's according to http://mcdonalds.com/legal/index.html

    So what's going on here? Can they actually do that?

    1. Re:Trademark infringement by Artifex · · Score: 2, Funny
      They've worked out a solid candidate for a name (it's not official yet) that isn't quite as catchy as "Big Mac", but it also doesn't have any of the downsides.


      They should call the building where it resides the Cider House, then they can talk about how it rules, and get Michael Caine to do the v/o for the documentary...

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  4. Yes but... by Nefrayu · · Score: 3, Funny

    Can the Big Mac play games like the WOPR?
    How about a nice game of chess?

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  5. Oh, oh yeah? by Faust7 · · Score: 4, Funny

    The sort of stuff that will make Big Mac look like that old TI-85 collecting dust in your drawer.

    Cluster a billion TI-85s together and then we'll see who's collecting dust.

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  6. my switcher story by caffeine_monkey · · Score: 5, Funny

    I used to run an Intel-based supercomputer, but then one night, I was modelling a nuclear explosion on it, and all of a sudden it went berserk, the screen started flashing, and the model just disappeared. All of it. And it was a good model of a nuclear explosion! I had to cram and remodel it really quickly. Needless to say, my rushed model wasn't nearly as good, and I blame that Intel supercomputer for the fact that DARPA yanked our funding.

    1. Re:my switcher story by adrianbaugh · · Score: 1, Funny

      Dare I suggest you should blame your evident lack of backups? Real Men may well not use backups, but fake men don't get fired :-P

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  7. Obligatory slashdot gag by adrianbaugh · · Score: 2, Funny

    Imagine a beowulf cluster of..... oh, wait.

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  8. Where have all the g5 gone? by n3z0rf · · Score: 2, Funny

    Well now we know where they are being stockpiled. ;)

  9. I'm confused... by Spoing · · Score: 3, Funny
    Aren't there supposed to be comments about Microsoft here? This is Slashdot -- isn't it?

    Well, to get the ball rolling, here is a query on the top 500 supercomputers using Microsoft Windows. Corrections and insight are appreciated.

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  10. Real world?? by Zane+Edwards · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yes, it might make some fast scientific calculations really really fast, but I want to know how fast it does some real world stuff. Give me some Quake framerates, or Photoshop gaussian blur benches.

    1. Re:Real world?? by saddino · · Score: 2, Funny

      Give me some Quake framerates, or Photoshop gaussian blur benches.

      Or if you're PC World, some Premiere or MS Word benchmarks.

  11. Re:Scant details on supercomputers... by Jack+Auf · · Score: 4, Funny

    I was also wondering about OS's used on the Top 500. I really wish they'd include the OS in the list as well. What would the OS statistics look like, I wonder?

    IBM: 31%
    HP: 28%
    Linux: 20%
    Sun: 12%
    Cray: 6%
    Other: 2.8%
    Apple: .2%
    Microsoft: 0%

    Err, or something like that.

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  12. Actually not by aliquis · · Score: 2, Funny

    My TI-85 isn't collecting dust in my drawer. This summer I had a small accident with flavoured oatmilk. What started as a tilted backpack ended as a TI-85 with some IC connectors magically erroded away after 5 hours or so of traveling.

    Kids, remember this: Oatmilk with salt = ionized water. Batteries = electricity. Ionized water + electricity isn't healthy for those small metall pieces of yours.

    Whoa, do I smell a intresting+informative moderation?

  13. Fastest, but... by yroJJory · · Score: 2, Funny

    can it run Maya AND Photoshop at the same time?

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  14. I'm an insensitive clod... by MikeXpop · · Score: 2, Funny

    ... you insensitive clod!

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  15. Darl McBride's pants explode with pleasure... by payndz · · Score: 1, Funny

    ...at the thought of a tennis court's-worth of tightly-packed IBM processors all running Linux. Blow the dust off your TI-85 and work out the total per-processor fee SCO will be demanding for that lot!

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