A Look Inside the NCSA

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday July 2, 2007 @05:41AM 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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/.ed already by blhack · 2007-07-02 05:56 · 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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