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SGI & NASA Plan 10240-Processor Altix Cluster
green pizza writes "NASA has announced plans to cluster twenty 512-processor Silicon Graphics Inc Altix supercomputers connected to a 500-terabyte SGI InfiniteStorage SAN. The Altix uses Itanium2 CPUs running Linux atop an Origin 3000-derrived architecture. NASA and SGI scaled Linux to 512 CPUs late last year. There are also strong hints that SGI plans to bring its clustered ATI graphics to Altix in the near future. Lots of neat big iron project on the horizon!"
This is great news for intel. They will double the number of itanics shipped in a single deal!
Stick Men
Wonder if that thing could play Doom3?
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With the heat given off by all those itanics, I'm sure they could do some pretty good real-word research into heat shield materials and rocket engine nozzles.
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Can it run a JVM running on a Windows box and still be able to refresh the graphics?
I'm guessing that NASA found out Doom 3 has a software renderer and are buying the minimum specs.
Calculating things very quickly maybe? Just a thought. 500TB? I've never seen the need for more than 640k.
Put windows me on it and see how many times you can open and close Photoshop before you run out of memory.
So NASA is planning to upgrade to Longhorn then?
to fake a human settlement on Mars.
Laws are for people with no friends.
For the conspiracy theorists who believe the moon landings were faked a collaboration between NASA and SGI on simulated exploration will just provide a basis to think that the Mars missions will not only be faked, they wont even use real actors next and the whole mission will be CGI.
So when we do 'land' on Mars, if the astonauts burst into a song and dance extravaganza during the planting the flag ceremony then the job was probably outsourced to India. If the ceremony involves a 10 hour trek up a mountain and is interrupted by hordes of attacking Martians that must be defeated by the 6 astronauts then they probably got Peter Jackson to do it. If the whole mission is really lame and not quite what you were hoping for, look no futher than George Lucas.
Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
What truth?
There is no dupe
It whirs and clicks and sputters..
Finally, the following cryptic message mysteriously appears on it's console:
42
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
Doesn't NASA know that Linux is national security threat??? And 10240 cpu cluster no less? Don't they know that such concentrated evil will create a singularity? This could be the end of our civilization.
"Who are in control, they are not in control of anything - they don't even control themselves!" - Glen Beck
It can do realtime hologram movies, and pop the popcorn while you're watching it.
Free Software: Like love, it grows best when given away.
... was reading too much Slashdot.
I knew nothing good could come of all those beowulf cluster ideas!
You know that WOSH! you just heard? That was the sound of the fscking joke going right over your head.
/. I reached this conclusion when I was told I was new here and shouldn't respond to trolls. The user sending me the email had a UID about the level of yours.
There should be an IQ test before one is allowed to post to
I reached this conclusion when I was told I was new here and shouldn't respond to trolls. The user sending me the email had a UID about the level of yours.
You must be new here...
(Besides, how do we know you didn't just swipe that user account from someone or get it on ebay?)