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£52 Million Govt Funding for New UK Supercomputer
Lancey writes "The BBC reports that the UK government has contributed £52 million towards the building of the High-End Computing Terascale Resource to replace two existing supercomputers currently in use by British scientists. The story claims a maximum speed of 100 teraflops, although it is unlikely that the machine will ever be pushed to this limit. Some of the government funding will also be used to train scientists and programmers to develop software capable of exploiting the machine's potential."
And 10 years from now, we all say "I remember when 100 teraflops was fast..."
Preparation for the release of Vista, no doubt.
However, it is unlikely to ever be pushed to its limits.
Tony Montana could, if he had a montague.
wait til you see the average credit this thing gets on SETI@Home - there'll be a TBlair@10DowningSt account at the top of the list before you know it.
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Imagine a Beowulf cluster of <kick> OW!
OS Software is like love: The best way to make it grow is to give it away.
although it is unlikely that the machine will ever be pushed to this limit
Like I said class: If you can't fit your program in 640k of memory, you don't know how to program... "640k should be enough for anybody"
Chums up, let's do this!
12-year-old Korean, you mean? I'm not joking. Your typical 12-year-old American doesn't even know how to play Go. 12-year-old Koreans are sometimes pros, and may have been since the age of 5.
Then there's those Japanese kids possessed by ghosts of ancient, suicidal Go masters. Hoo boy.
It would still take a good 10 seconds to start up OpenOffice.org
"The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One stands for danger; the other for opportunity
Microsoft wouldn't provide certification. Something about the graphics card not being up to spec....
OS Software is like love: The best way to make it grow is to give it away.
re:"what are the three best single uses to apply that much processing power against?"
Hosting the world's prOn needs.
Thank you and good nite.