Efficient Supercomputing with Green Destiny

Posted by Cliff on Wednesday November 19, 2003 @03:42PM from the transmeta-in-the-news-again dept.

gManZboy writes: "Is it an oxymoron to have an efficient supercomputer? Wu-Chun Feng (Los Alamos National Laboratory) doesn't believe so - Green Destiny and its children are Transmeta-based supercomputers that Wu thinks are fast enough, at a fraction of the heat/energy/cost, according to ACM Queue." 240 processors running under 5.2kW (or less!) is nothing to sneeze at. The article offers up this question: might there be other metrics that might be important to supercomputing, rather than relying solely on processing speed?

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The only problem... by An'Desha+Danin · 2003-11-20 03:09 · Score: 0, Troll

The sole unfortunate drawback of this highly efficient supercomputer is that it can only be properly wielded by Chow Yun Fat.

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