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Beowulf Pioneer Lured From Cal Tech to LSU
An anonymous reader writes "Thomas Sterling, a pioneer of clustered computing, including /.'s beloved Beowulf cluster, has has accepted a fully-tenured professorship at Louisiana State University's Center for Computation and Technology, ditching his old post at Cal Tech. From TFA: "At LSU, he hopes to develop the next generation of high-performance computers that will give birth to true artificial intelligence. By making computer chips more efficient, Sterling believes he can change computing by "one to three orders of magnitude" that will transform how humans interact with technology.""
I think for now he'd better focus on developing sea-water powered computers :)
Image a beo.... oh fuck it. Nevermind.
...was last seen moving northeast towards Mississippi at a brisk pace. Sterling should adjust his trip accordingly.
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Forget any tech achievements this guy has. If he's the Beowulf pioneer, that means he has to be something like a thousand years old. I want to know what sort of anti-aging techniques this guy uses.
...after that hurricane gets through with Lousiana.
FTA: [Sterling]:"We'll finally stop interfacing with a computer with a keypad," he said. "It's a truly science fiction dream of talking to computers and computers talking back to you."
Great, like I need my computer talking back to me -- I'll be getting enough sass from my teenage daughters by then.
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At LSU, he hopes to develop the next generation of high-performance computers that will give birth to true artificial intelligence.
In short, he has been given a job for life to do research almost nobody expects anything from anymore.
Wake me up when one of his high-performance computers pass the Turing test, if I didn't die of old age before...
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Imagine what we could do with a cluster of these guys!
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The illusion of being backwater is now trumped by the reality of being underwater.
The LSU 9000 just doesn't have as nice a ring to it as calling it HAL.
Do really dense people warp space more than others?
Apu: I came here shortly after my graduation from CalTech: Calcutta Technical Institute, as the top student in my graduating class of 7 million.
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Skynet will be corrupted by Mardi Gras and thus decide to save all the hot chicks but kill the rest of us.
Do really dense people warp space more than others?
...will be one of those rare above-water ones.
Hell, if I wanted to change the performance of my computer by one to three orders of magnitude, I would just run Vista.
Oh, wait, maybe he meant one to three orders of magnitude faster. My bad.
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