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Largest Privately Owned Supercomputer
GORMUR writes "IBM has launched its Watson Blue Gene system, the largest privately owned supercompuer seen by the press. The super computer is described reaching a whopping 91.29 teraflops. IBM has plans on giving Academic researchers access to some computing time. Some more info can be found the IBM site. All this makes you wonder what other supercomputers are out there, not known to the press, and if it's time to increase the size of your private key and strengthen your encryption."
Apple, you might wanna rethink that switch to Intel.....
My other Sig is
Is 'whopping' really the only adjective adequate enough to describe supercomputer performance?
Google search of 'supercomputer whopping'.
Compared to the Milliard Gargantubrain in my garage, this thing is a mere abacus. Consider it not.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
In my pants.
I need 400 PS3's to make one of these.
Who wants to help me start a fundraiser?
Notice how the article says "seen by the press"...maybe there's an even more powerful one in the hands of some evil mastermind on an island in the Pacific who is plotting world domination by having it create a super weapon to destroy everything in its path...yet the computer always keeps giving the same answer:
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What's the largest non-privately owned supercomputer? And can I play Doom 3 on it?
It is largely unnecessary to increase the size of your keys, it stopped slowing us down quite a while ago. Don't even get us started on the usefulness of tin foil hats.
Love,
The Government
P.S: Don't you people starting clearing the porn off your hard drives, this job gets pretty boring sometimes.
The use of this dates back to the "WOPR" strategic simulations supercomputer used by the Pentagon. Most know it from the documentary film "WarGames". It looked like a locomotive, but boy could it calculate. For several years, it was the standard by which supercomputers were measured. Eventually they came out with faster computers: once twice as fast as the WOPR ran at "two wops", one three times as fas "four wops". Eventually, an H got added in, and as computers left the old WOPR in the dust, the term "whopping" came to mean "Yeah, bud, it's really fast!"
Want to play a game, Professor Falken?
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
All this makes you wonder what other supercomputers are out there, not known to the press, and if it's time to increase the size of your private key and strengthen your encryption.
Increase the size of my private ... and strengthen ... wait a sec! Ya' trying to sneak some SPAM past us?
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Im waiting for Sherlock Holmes Blue Gene system.
There is truth in humor.
Is it also whopping?
So, the big question is whether this supercomputer will have the whopping ability to check spelling and grammar.
I only need another 2,591,501 of you to sign up for just a measly, diminutive, insignificant, minuscule, teensy-weensy little 3,520,725 offers so I can get one of these whopping supercomputers for free!
Fastest privately owned supercomputer? That would be my computer running Windows. It has a record of Always-Flops.
Sadly, the easiest way to hide porn collections from the girls in my life is to drop them in folders called "programming" or "linux" or something else that they're in the habit of ignoring.
After a while it's like the words don't even exist to them.
Send secretive emails with topics like "fR33 \/a1ium" and when someone looks in your inbox their eyes will just glide past the words.
Direct away from face when opening.
... if it's time to increase the size of your private key ...
I've been trying to increase the size of my private key, but those little blue "enhancement" pills didn't do anything for me.
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
That's like as powerful as *fifty* PlayStation 3s, all working together!!!
Can you imagine?