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Steve Chen Making China's Supercomputer Grid

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the teraflops-to-spare dept.

nanotrends writes "Steve Chen was the principal designer of the Cray X-MP supercomputer. He recently created multi-teraflop blade based supercomputers for a Chinese company. He is now creating a supercomputer grid across China and he is working on a bio-supercomputer extension to human brains called THIRD-BRAIN. The THIRD-BRAIN project has significant 3 year and 5 year targets."

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  1. FTFS: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    he is working on a bio-supercomputer extension to human brains called THIRD-BRAIN.
    For some people this could be considered their first brain!
  2. grid of China by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    >He is now creating a supercomputer grid across China

    Can you see it from space?

  3. Test run takes 7.5 million years... by Woogiemonger · · Score: 2, Funny

    Result = 42

  4. Third Brain?!?! by itz2000 · · Score: 2, Funny

    "He is now creating a supercomputer grid across China and he is working on a bio-supercomputer extension to human brains called THIRD-BRAIN"

    Why did you jump from 1st brain to 3rd brain? WHERE IS THE 2nd BRAIN?

    someone stole the 2nd brain! call 9-1-1!

  5. He's building it by c0nst · · Score: 3, Funny

    .. so that he can run Vista

  6. Re:ethics by ATMD · · Score: 2, Funny

    Dammit, as soon as I run out of mod points.

    MOD PARENT UP; INFORMATIVE/INTERESTING.

    I personally had no idea that a lot of the stuff mentioned there was still going on inside China. I mean, torture, concentration camps? WTF?

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  7. SECOND BRAIN by EraserMouseMan · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm surprised that nobody's asked about why there's no mention of a SECOND BRAIN? Has china already developed that one? Or are they just skipping a brain?

  8. Re:frikken traitors by Ardavan1367 · · Score: 2, Funny

    wtf? for the last time, America = Liberalism. drop your guns or die! why cant anyone understand that?! If all the armies in the world would accept this do you think there would be any more war? no because the age of cannibalism is OVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEER

  9. Re:A Great Leap Forward in computing? by iminplaya · · Score: 2, Funny

    Intelligence, genius and foresight are not a boon to a person, but are a terrible curse.

    Consider yourself lucky to never have been afflicted with such a horrible condition :)

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    What?