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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. Re:Pretty sure by tnyquist83 · · Score: 0, Troll

    You also have to remember that the human brain also has to handle all of those useless background process like "breathing" and "heartbeats". If you only took into account the user-taskable portion of the brain, then computers have surpassed that level a loooooong time ago.