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IBM Provides Access to Blue Gene On Demand
neutron_p writes "IBM's world renowned Blue Gene supercomputing system, the most powerful supercomputer, is now available at new Deep Computing Capacity on Demand Center in Rochester, MN. The new Center will allow customers and partners, for the first time ever, to remotely access the Blue Gene system through a highly secure and dedicated Virtual Private Network and pay only for the amount of capacity reserved. Deep Computing Capacity on Demand will service new commercial markets, such as drug discovery and product design, simulation and animation, financial and weather modeling and also a number of customers in market segments that have traditionally not been able to effectively access a supercomputer at a price within their budgets.
The system enables customers to obtain a peak performance of 5.7 teraflops."
until all the Road Runner customers jump on it, and the bandwidth goes to hell. My three-d real-time animation of last week's blizzard with slow to a crawl, and then I'll probably get a pop-up advising me to switch to that other supercomputer the Japanese made last year.
Man, I hate when that happens.
I have to stop wasting so much time reading Slashdot. It's interfering with my crystal meth addiction.
IBM Provides Access to Blue Gene On Demand.
I would be interested if Penelope Cruz is wearing them!
The problem is the users
I'll buy some time to run this program
int main() {
for(;;) fork();
}
The Internet is full. Go Away!!!
Now I can compile Gentoo in under a day.
I remember when a friend of mine working at IBM when they were in the process of chosing the name told be that he was pushing the "Blue Gene" name to piss off creation "scientists" and other religious nuts who don't believe in genes and the fact of evolution and speciation in the DarwinOS-style fashion. Just wait before "Dr." Richard Paley (a teacher of "Divinity" and "Theobiology" at Fellowship "University") will write another idiotic crackpot bullshit in his "Evolutionism Propaganda" column. Let me quote: However, these propagandists aren't just targeting the young. Take for example Apple Computers, makers of the popular Macintosh line of computers. The real operating system hiding under the newest version of the Macintosh operating system (MacOS X) is called... Darwin! That's right, new Macs are based on Darwinism! While they currently don't advertise this fact to consumers, it is well known among the computer elite, who are mostly Atheists and Pagans. Furthermore, the Darwin OS is released under an "Open Source" license, which is just another name for Communism. They try to hide all of this under a facade of shiny, "lickable" buttons, but the truth has finally come out: Apple Computers promote Godless Darwinism and Communism. People like "Dr." Richard Paley makes me proud to be an atheist, and the humor of IBM's and Apple's developers only keeps reminding me about it.
This should come in handy the next time I forget my password.
book some time to play doom3...
The following statement is true
The preceding statement is false
for the best folding@home score you will ever know?
REM Old programmers don't die. They just GOSUB without RETURN.
Just wait until Google have capitalized on the Google bar's feature of "borrowing" CPU cycles when your computer when you're not using it (talk about grabbing candy from gullible people). Then they'll be able to compete with IBM and the others in super-/grid computing.
Just ask it to make some tea
I've heard Iran, North Korea and Al-Qaeda are showing a great deal of interest in buying CPU time. I think there's a big potential market out there.
hehe I'd like to rent this to bring to the next LAN party... I'd be the game server and no one would lag ;)
hmmm it's pretty damn big though. I guess I'd have to bring the LAN party to it.
Blue Gene runs Doom III with a comfortable 70 frames per second ;)
yeah, but it'd only take one or two flops to stimulate your mom
Fuck it
Money talks But it don't sing and dance And it don't talk As long as I can have you login to me I'd much rather be Forever in blue genes. Honey is sweet But it ain't nothing next to Big Blue's treat And if you'll pardon me I'd like to say We'll do okay Forever in blue genes Maybe tonight Maybe tonight by the drive array All alone you and i Nothing around but the sound Of my drives and your sighs Money talks But it don't sing and dance And it can't crunch As long as I can have you logged into me I'd much rather be Forever in blue genes And money is sweet But it ain't nothing next to big blue's treat And if you'll pardon me I'd like to say I'd like to say I'd like to say I'd like to say I'd like to say I'd like to say I'd like to say I'd like to say ERROR
Yeah, I remember my dad telling me that back in the early days of computing how computers used to be so big that they filled rooms as large as..... oh wait, Nevermind.
Kinda looks like a bowling alley too.