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$208 Million Petascale Computer Gets Green Light
coondoggie writes "The 200,000 processor core system known as Blue Waters got the green light recently as the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and its National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) said it has finalized the contract with IBM to build the world's first sustained petascale computational system.
Blue Waters is expected to deliver sustained performance of more than one petaflop on many real-world scientific and engineering applications. A petaflop equals about 1 quadrillion calculations per second. They will be coupled to more than a petabyte of memory and more than 10 petabytes of disk storage. All of that memory and storage will be globally addressable, meaning that processors will be able to share data from a single pool exceptionally quickly, researchers said. Blue Waters, is supported by a $208 million grant from the National Science Foundation and will come online in 2011."
nah, nevermind
I'm glad they've given it a green light.
Imagine having all that computer power, and not even knowing if it was switched on!
"Be light, stinging, insolent and melancholy"
Can it figure out how to brew the 'perfect' cup of coffee?
Here's to hot beer, cold women, and Glaswegian kisses for all.
Too bad it wasn't a red light with all those geeks around... I know I'd be interested!
I mean, what do they actually use this for?
I think it has been designed to run IE8 beta 2.
"Be light, stinging, insolent and melancholy"
Come on now. Let's be serious. They're trying to play Crysis.
It will not run 32 bit linux, so of course, the admins in charge are going to bitch about the lack of adobe flash support.
What are we going to do tonight Brain?
The amount of porn you can download with this thing? Isn't that the number one thing the computer has evolved to?
Anything and Everything about the Net
in 40 years some kid will laugh at your pathetic attempt at geek coolness when you mention the Bluewater and say "wow your old, Im amazed anyone needed a warehouse just for one petaflop even my Wango-matic game cube has 50 petaflops"
Nah but it will finally run Vista.
"So long and thanks for all the fish."
in 40 years some kid will laugh at your pathetic attempt at geek coolness when you mention the Bluewater and say "wow your old..."
Forty more years of the kids saying "your"? Kill me now! :)
Right.
That's why the City of New Orleans evacuated to Baton Rouge.
Lindsay Blanton
RadioReference.com
Actually, no, they're future proofing their computer for Duke Nukem Forever :)
Between the falling angel and the rising ape
I bet they tried some games too :)
Nonsense! Everyone knows there aren't any games for mac :P
It's not exactly rocket surgery.
And quantum electroptical tomographics. See, I can make shit up, too...