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NASA To Get 10,240 Node Itanium 2 Linux Cluster
starwindsurfer writes "US space agency Nasa is to get a massive supercomputing boost to help get its shuttle missions back in action after the 2003 shuttle disaster. Project Columbia, a collaboration with two technology giants, will mean Nasa's computing power will be ramped up by 10 times to do complex simulations."
More bang for the buck, IMHO.
But ask yourself, "Is this good for the company?"
From the dupe:
"We had another story about this a week or so ago."
Come on guys.
I believe that the XP SP2 article was also a dup. Is it really that hard to find articles?
Looks like NASA will be about the only ones to be able to play Half life 2.
GAAH! MY PRINTER IS ON FIRE!!! PUT IT OUT! PUT IT OUT!
Sounds like the moderators are having a case of the Mondays?
If you accept the notion that people are more prone to have a negative mood on a Monday than, say, a Friday when looking forward to a weekend, then yes they are having a case of Mondays.
It would be interesting to look at moderations over the course of a week to see if moderators are more generous in their assement of a posts "worth" at weeks end rather than on Monday morning.
"Rocky Rococo, at your cervix!"
God damn I hate this moderation system. Because of douche bags like the one who modded you off topic for a very witty joke that actually was tied into the story, not only do I browse at -1, I have my user settings convert any flamebait or offtopic modded posts to +5 because more often than not that is their actual worth.
a Beowulf cluster of 503's?
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IRIX > Linux.
Southeastern Virginia REPRESENT!
Not sure why this was marked troll, but my points are valid.
An Itanium system would cost more to run and is slower per cpu. NASA should go with the most cost effective system, as its Tax payer funded, overspending is an issue.
Sorry, but government spending needs to be kept in check, going with linux is a good start, but I'm sure someone has the support contract.
Maybe government spending isn't the hottest issue, but little things like the 88 billion for IRAQ could have put new computers and paid for more teachers across the USA in every school.
Next time look at the article, and say "how much did that cost, and did the people pay for it...". There are broader issues than Intel won a new Supercomputer contract. AMD just lost that contract, and the people paid more for less.
"I hate this moderation system."
I'd definitely like to see some closer scrutiny of the negative mods. Meta-moderating doesn't seem to be weeding enough of the bad ones out. The Moderator Guidelines make it clear to:
"Concentrate more on promoting than on demoting. The real goal here is to find the juicy good stuff and let others read it. Do not promote personal agendas. Do not let your opinions factor in. Try to be impartial about this".
A sizable minority of moderators are clearly ignoring that, if they ever even bother to read the guidelines at all. I think out of all my mod points, I've only ever assigned a negative mod once, maybe twice. There's really no need to most of the time, since even though I often strongly disagree with the poster, that's NOT what moderation is supposed to be about.
Having said that, email CmdrTaco with any abuse. He says its rare he removes moderator access, but apparently it does happen.
In soviet russia, posts filter out you.
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