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Blue Gene/L Tops Its Own Supercomputer Record
DIY News writes "Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and IBM unveiled the Blue Gene/L supercomputer Thursday and announced it's broken its own record again for the world's fastest supercomputer. The 65,536-processor machine can sustain 280.6 teraflops. That's the top end of the range IBM forecast and more than twice the previous Blue Gene/L record of 136.8 teraflops, set when only half the machine was installed."
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of...oh, nevermind.
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They say it can launch Adobe Acrobat Reader in ELEVEN SECONDS!!!
An IBM engineer was caught remarking "And boy can it hold a lot of porn."
What useful science has the "Earth Simulator" produced?
What about 42?
and the answer had better not be 42.
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What a stupid thing to ask. It's running Linux, you should be asking what the frame rates in Doom 3 are.
WOULD YOU LIKE TO PLAY A GAME? aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
If it uses 1.21 gigawatts I'm going to hide and not come out until doomsday! :)
Easy - you'd run a huge federal deficit, and let future generations sort it out.
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.. since Quake 4 just hit the shelves.
And moments before the breakthrough is finally computed, a blackout occurs due to the power consumption of the supercomputer.
What useful science has the "Earth Simulator" produced?
Yes, better climate models and weather forecasts are obviously not needed. A little rain never hurt anyone, as this years hurricane season clearly shows.
Being bitter is drinking poison and hoping someone else will die
WOULD YOU LIKE TO PLAY A GAME? aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
If you're going to be an 80s geek, don't half-ass it like most people. The correct line from WarGames is "SHALL WE PLAY A GAME?"
Just in time for... Windows Vista(tm)
Time for Earth Simulator to make a Walmart run and get some more Athlons to regain the top of the "supercomputer" chart.
Don't forget to compile with:
make -j 65536
The faster they make these things, the slower they sing that damn Daisy song.
When this was announced, world chess champion Gary Kasparov said "ok, no way am I playing this fricken thing"
"Leo Fender was in a 'state of grace' when he designed the Stratocaster." -- Paul Reed Smith
It still takes 15 seconds to start up OpennOffice.org
"The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One stands for danger; the other for opportunity
whoo! look at all that electrostatic discharges between the data contact points!
Yeah? Hmmmm.
Uh-oh.
No, this is IBM. Wang went out of business years ago.
Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it. --Mark Twain
Am I the only one who is incapable of reading that (even in the dubious privacy of my own head), without saying it in a "computer" voice?
Troc.
Troc's dubious podcast and blog: http://www.trocnet.net
Actually, I am really a vengeful, sadistic person. Knowing my own nukes are going to kill my enemies (even in a loose sense) would make me feel better as I died from radiation poisoning.