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How To Build a Supercomputer In 24 Hours

Posted by timothy on from the foxconn-this-ain't dept.

An anonymous reader writes with a link to this "time lapse video of students and postdocs at the University of Zurich constructing the zBox4 supercomputer. The machine has a theoretical compute capacity of ~1% of the human brain and will be used for simulating the formation of stars, planets and galaxies." That rack has "3,072 2.2GHz Intel Xeon cores and over 12TB of RAM." Also notable: for once, several of the YouTube comments are worth reading for more details on the construction and specs.

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  1. Pretty sure by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    that my old palm pre has more computing power than most human brains on this planet.

  2. It's already done. by edibobb · · Score: 1, Funny

    Just use a bunch of AWS instances (or the equivalent cloud system) and enjoy your own supercomputer from the "privacy" of your own internet connection.

  3. Re:quantum entanglement -- my brain to wind ? by edibobb · · Score: 2, Funny

    Why do you use 16th century English? Is this really how you speak, or did you run this through an obfuscator? What are tares, and what does "lest while ye" mean?

  4. Re:Title could be by Gaygirlie · · Score: 3, Funny

    "How to spend $800,000 in one day"

    Challenge accepted! Now to seek someone to finance the challenge!

  5. Also notable: by tbird81 · · Score: 4, Funny

    "for once, several of the YouTube comments are worth reading for more details on the construction and specs."

    Yeah, unlike the impeccably high standard of comments you see on Slashdot. Mod me up if you hate Bieber!

  6. OCZ Rebates by DarwinSurvivor · · Score: 4, Funny

    So who's job was it to mail in all the OCZ rebate forms?