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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. /.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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  3. Cause of Global Warming by ISoldat53 · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  4. 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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