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World's Fastest Supercomputer To Be Built At ORNL

Posted by timothy on from the right-near-dollywood dept.

Homey R writes "As I'll be joining the staff there in a few months, I'm very excited to see that Oak Ridge National Lab has won a competition within the DOE's Office of Science to build the world's fastest supercomputer at Oak Ridge National Lab in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. It will be based on the promising Cray X1 vector architecture. Unlike many of the other DOE machines that have at some point occupied #1 on the Top 500 supercomputer list, this machine will be dedicated exclusively to non-classified scientific research (i.e., not bombs)." Cowards Anonymous adds that the system "will be funded over two years by federal grants totaling $50 million. The project involves private companies like Cray, IBM, and SGI, and when complete it will be capable of sustaining 50 trillion calculations per second."

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  1. FIRST! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ME ME ME ME ME!

  2. World fattest people are USian GAYS ! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Citation:
    Les jeans taille basse bientôt bannis en Louisiane?
    BATON ROUGE, Louisiane (AP) - Au nom de la morale et de la décence, l'Etat américain de Louisiane s'apprête à bannir les jeans taille basse qui laissent entrevoir des sous-vêtements, la peau voire certaines zones pileuses.
    Le projet de loi, déjà approuvé par la commission judiciaire de la Chambre de cet Etat du sud, entend déclarer illégal le port en public de vêtements qui exposent intentionnellement toute partie des poils pubiens, de la raie des fesses ou des parties génitales.
    En vertu du texte, les contrevenants se verraient condamner à trois jours de travaux d'intérêt général dans une caserne de pompiers, et devraient verser jusqu'à 175 dollars d'amende.
    Dans notre société, il existe une ligne de décence à ne pas franchir et cette ligne commence à la ceinture, a fait valoir le démocrate Derrick Shepherd, parlementaire local à l'origine de ce projet de loi.
    Glenn Green, démocrate lui aussi opposé au port de ce type de vêtement, a soutenu devant la commission que les législateurs étaient dans l'obligation de réaffirmer les limites de la décence à des adolescents dont la mode est de plus en plus osée.
    Nous devrions être capable de dire ce qui est moral, ce qui est décent et ce qui est un comportement acceptable pour notre jeunesse, a-t-il soutenu.
    Le projet de loi, approuvé jeudi dernier par la commission judiciaire, doit être soumis au Congrès de Louisiane avant la fin de la session en cours, le 21 juin prochain.     AP tl/v
    Source: © AP - The Associated Press. Tous droits réservés.


    Facts:
    • Sex is a wonderful thing (impossible to explain to the average /.er).
    • American are flacidly gay.
    • American children desserve to murder their parents while they're asleep.
    1. Re:World fattest people are USian GAYS ! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      That article could as well be talking about how exceptionally beautiful Americans are. Too bad no one will ever know because no one cares about that irrelevant language known as 'French'.

    2. Re:World fattest people are USian GAYS ! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      This is a fairly weak example of your trolling skills. Perhaps your non-American superiority is a false front?

      In the future I recommend you come up with something new - repeating tired truths and making stupid statements is the resort of children.

  3. ORNL by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Hahaha! This is the first post on slashdot! k1337!

  4. obligatory /. joke... by RTFA · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ... imagine a beowulf cluster of this!

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    This comment was written using 100% reused electrons.
  5. Companies that outsource (IBM) should not receive by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Government grants.

  6. Processors for Potheads? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    My dyslexic ass first read that headline as "Fastest Supercomputer to be Built at NORML."

    I don't know what use a bunch of stoners could have for the world's fastest computer, but if it brings the end of the War on (some) Drugs sooner, I'll all for it.

  7. I suppose.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Mozilla just makes the rest of the universe speed up around one then?

  8. Grab that cash with both hands and make a stash by HarveyBirdman · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    Since it's funded by federal grants, how much time, as a taxpayer, do I get on it?

    And I'm still waiting for my turn to drive one of the Mars rovers.

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    --- Ban humanity.
  9. Slashdot Stock Effect by imsirovic5 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Nice going guys! This story gives a whole new meaning to Slashdotting. I own cray stock (CRAY on Nasdaq) and since this article got posted stock got quite a boost. Now if I can only get you guys to post something positive about my gambling penny stocks that I hold position in....

  10. Re:Hyphenation Troll by Patrik_AKA_RedX · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    I'm affraid you're mistaken. The correct way to use the hyphen in Engrish is:

    Whenever you feel like it.

    Simular rules apply for the use of "it's" and "its", "your" and "you're" and the formation of verbs.

    Some people think the use of Engrish shows a lack of understanding of the English language. This is not the case. Using Engrish is a way to show your trust in the readers decoding skills. It shows you know the readers have an IQ of at least 130 and are capable of mentaly trying every possible meaning of your sentences and finding the correct one.

    It's a way to show you're capable of apply grammer and spelling from multiple languages to the english language.

    So the next time you read another post in Engrish, you'll know this a respectfull post from a very smart person who has trust in your abilities. Knowing this should leave you with a warm and fuzzy feeling.

    Thank you for your attention