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IBM turbo charges world's fastest supercomputer

Paul van der Lingen

At last... 

Posted Tuesday 26th June 2007 13:55 GMT

finally, a computer with enough grunt to run Vista smoothly.

Ian Bush

Chess playing ?? 

Posted Tuesday 26th June 2007 13:55 GMT

Speaking as one of the guys who will program this beastie at Daresbury Lord only knows why the reference to chess is in there. The relationship of BG/P to Deep Blue is at very best distant to say the least,

Ian

Anonymous Coward

IBM says it's Deep Blue's progeny 

Posted Tuesday 26th June 2007 14:46 GMT

http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/21527.wss

Tony

re: Chess playing?? 

Posted Tuesday 26th June 2007 16:55 GMT

You mean it won't be backwards compatible?

Steven Raith

Vista? 

Posted Tuesday 26th June 2007 20:20 GMT

"finally, a computer with enough grunt to run Vista smoothly."

I see no mention of it supporting DX9.0 in the hardware, so it might not run the Aero/Glass thingy though...

Ian Bush

re: IBM says it's Deep Blue's progeny 

Posted Wednesday 27th June 2007 07:45 GMT

OK. According to that criterion an XT4 is related to the pentium II + ethernet

Beowulf cluster we had here all those years ago. But then again I should have expected such a thing from a press release.