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Hawking Is First User of "Big Brain" Supercomputer

Posted by samzenpus on from the big-machines dept.

miller60 writes "Calling your product the 'Big Brain Computer' is a heady claim. It helps if you have Dr. Stephen Hawking say that the product can help unlock the secrets of the universe. SGI says its UV2 can scale to 4,096 cores and 64 terabytes of memory, with a peak I/O rate of four terabytes per second and runs off-the-shelf Linux software. Hawking says the UV2 'will ensure that UK researchers remain at the forefront of fundamental and observational cosmology.'"

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  1. hawking's been hacked. by notgm · · Score: 5, Funny

    i'm convinced that someone else is controlling what his computer-chair-interface says. perhaps it's even...bum bum bum....a super advanced AI, tricking us all into giving it access to a supercom...oh no! it's too late!

    1. Re:hawking's been hacked. by moderatorrater · · Score: 5, Funny

      I find it hard to believe that Hawking wrote the line

      Me too. Maybe dictated.

  2. Re:Off the shelf Linux? by L4t3r4lu5 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yo dawg. I heard you like Beowulf Clusters, so I put Anglo-Saxon lore in your nutty breakfast cereal so you can kill the Grendel while you get your Guideline Daily Allowance of dietary fibre.

    amidoinitrite?

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