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A Look Inside the NCSA

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the dave-you-like-your-ncsa-friends-better-than-me-don't-you dept.

Peter Kern writes "The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) is one of the great supercomputing facilities in the world and is home to 'Abe', one of the top 10 supercomputers on the current Top 500 list. TG Daily recently toured the facility and published a stunning report about their computing capabilities (more than 140 teraflops), power requirements (a sustained 1.7 megawatts), enormous 20-ft chillers in four cooling systems and other installations that keep the NCSA online."

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  1. That's a lot of number crunching by Junior+J.+Junior+III · · Score: 3, Funny

    Who knew Mosaic was so bloated? No wonder no one uses it anymore.

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  2. Re:Job requirements... by Timesprout · · Score: 2, Funny

    Apparently you need to be 20 feet tall and have a very relaxed attitude and a cool head.

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  3. Re:Printable Link - All in one page by WED+Fan · · Score: 2, Funny

    In 10 years, this will be on the desktop, everyone will yawn because we have been boiled frogs and it won't impress us then. In 10 years, you'll look at someones tie clasp computer and say, "Wow, I remember when that took up an 8 by 18 block of my desk."

    In 10 years, DARPA will announce the shut down of the Quantum Computing Project because it will be discovered that every time Red Hat Mandriva Winux OS/Q green screens, a parallel universe winks out of existance.

    In 10 years, they'll slap wheels on your grandmother's behind and call her a wagon.

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  4. /.ed already by blhack · · Score: 5, Funny

    1.21 gigaflops and their webserver is an old guy with tourette syndrome yelling HTML code into a tin can on a string.

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  5. Re:Job requirements... by Linker3000 · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...so CompTIA's Network+ and a bit of bench experience should do the trick eh?

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  6. Cause of Global Warming by ISoldat53 · · Score: 5, Funny

    New computer simulations indicate that supercomputers are a major source of global warming.

  7. Re:It's not "the NCSA" by Intron · · Score: 3, Funny

    Wouldn't want to get confused with that other large supercomputer customer.

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  8. Re:Wow! by Tmack · · Score: 2, Funny

    Let's see with 2 you can get 140 * 2 = "The BlueGene/L reached a Linpack benchmark performance of 280.6 TFlop/s ("teraflops" or trillions of calculations per second)."

    3 and they could be #1 in the world :)

    And you can power 711 of them with one Mr Fusion!

    Tm

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