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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. Great, just waiting for it to become self-aware by jollyreaper · · Score: 0, Troll

    Just reassure me that nobody has this hooked into our ICBM's. Knowing Bush has the button is scary enough.

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    Kwisatz Haderach
    Sell the spice to CHOAM
    This Mahdi took Shaddam's Throne
    1. Re:Great, just waiting for it to become self-aware by jollyreaper · · Score: 0, Troll

      Just reassure me that nobody has this hooked into our ICBM's. Knowing Bush has the button is scary enough. Troll? Just who the fuck do you think I'm trolling, Skynet? What, we don't want to make the big scary AI angry?
      --
      Kwisatz Haderach
      Sell the spice to CHOAM
      This Mahdi took Shaddam's Throne
  2. *Yawn*. by DerekLyons · · Score: 1, Troll

    From TFA: They also had two dedicated UPS boxes which stood six feet tall, three feet wide and 12 feet deep.
     
    *Yawn*. Only impressive to the slashgeek with no real experience with heavy iron (I.E most of them.) When I was in the Navy and serving at a training center - we had also had two UPS's this size. For each trainer/lab. And we had four labs.
     
    Just in the Weapons Training end of the building.
     
    Cooling and power conditioning for the training facility was in a seperate 15k sq ft building. Getting to the building from the facility was cool though - you wnet down into the basement, then down a ladder to a tunnel that ran the length of the building. Off that tunnel was another tunnel that ran out under the back parking lot to the support building. We used to joke about building a sniper range in one of the tunnels - they were that long.