DARPA Wants a 19" Super-Efficient Supercomputer

coondoggie writes "If you can squish all the processing power of, say, an IBM Roadrunner supercomputer inside a 19-inch box and make it run on about 60 kilowatts of electricity, the government wants to talk to you. The extreme scientists at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency this week issued a call for research that might develop a super-small, super-efficient super beast of a computer. Specifically, DARPA's desires for Ubiquitous High Performance Computing (UHPC) will require a new system-wide technology approach including hardware and software co-design to minimize energy dissipation per operation and maximize energy efficiency, with a 50GFLOPS per watt goal."

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wtf

[Anonymous Coward]

Fuck DARPA, I want one of those too.

come to think of it I want one the size of a cell phone that runs off of .002 watts.
a girl that looks like that chick in Transformers,
a trillion dollars
and lots of other stuff


for some reason my wishes don't make headlines on slashdot.

Re:Simpler solution.

[sleigher]

Are you sure?