Low Energy Supercomputing

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday August 25, 2010 @08:00AM from the on-a-dime dept.

Faith Singer at TACC writes "The term 'supercomputing' usually evokes images of large, expensive computer systems that calculate unfathomable algorithms and run on enough energy to support a small city. Now, imagine a supercomputer, but run on the electrical equivalent of three standard-size coffee-makers. This year's international supercomputing conference, SC10, will feature the Student Cluster Competition that challenges students to build, maintain, and run the most-cutting edge, commercially available high-performance computing (HPC) architectures on just 26 amps."

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Re:I hope they're smarter than the article writer by MozeeToby · 2010-08-25 08:16 · Score: 1, Redundant

Only problem is that the Ampere is a unit of CURRENT, not energy. It's like saying someone weighs 686 Newtons.
Wait... what? Newtons are a unit of force, weight is force due to gravity. Maybe you meant that it's like saying something weighs X kg or something masses X Newtons?