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Unboxing a Cray XC30 'Magnus' Petaflops Supercomputer

Posted by Unknown on from the need-a-review-unit dept.

Bismillah (993337) writes The Pawsey Supercomputing Centre in Australia has started unboxing and installing its new upgraded 'Magnus' supercomputer, which could become the largest such system in the southern hemisphere, with up to one petaFLOPS performance.

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  1. Bitcoin! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I wonder how many bitcoins you can mine with it.

  2. Only half the story by gmhowell · · Score: 3, Funny

    An 'unboxing' is only half of the modern way of reporting on new hardware. The more interesting question in this case is "will it blend?"

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    Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary. -John Lennon
  3. Re:Will it run DOSBox and Doom? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Good post, but bad analogy since "computers" are expected to run programs. I'd say it's more like asking whether an aircraft carrier can tow a skier. Maybe, but it won't do it well.

    Well, if you use the catapult...

  4. Too little, too late. by nimbius · · Score: 3, Funny

    We finally have a candidate system on which we can attempt to run crysis, and what happens? Crytek goes under.

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