Back to the articlePosted Tuesday 3rd February 2009 19:04 GMT
"Dawn" #
What a fine name for a machine modelling Instant Sunshine....
Uncle Sam buys 20 petaflops BlueGene super
The American government's appetite for ever-bigger gobs of supercomputing power has been a blessing for IBM and Cray, and this morning it was Big Blue's turn to brag about two big deals it has scored with Uncle Sam. The first and smallest of the two machines, nicknamed Dawn, will be installed in the second half of this year at …
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Posted Tuesday 3rd February 2009 21:59 GMT
Yes, but...... #
will it run Crysis in full mode?
or (shudder) Vista?
Posted Tuesday 3rd February 2009 21:59 GMT
All well and good #
But will it play Crysis on max settings and full AA?
Sorry, it had to be said. I'll get my coat now.
Posted Tuesday 3rd February 2009 21:59 GMT
WOW #
Nice to see my fine tax dollors go to a machine that can figure out how big a blast is but not how to fix the economy.....
Paris because she like a good bang
Posted Tuesday 3rd February 2009 21:59 GMT
Next Stop... #
...The NSA. I bet they'll get their hands on one soon!
Posted Tuesday 3rd February 2009 21:59 GMT
Notice from the department of redundancy department #
" the 36 racks that house these processing elements will take up 36 computing racks"
Now that there is just some freakin' awesome reporting. Yeeehawww!
Posted Wednesday 4th February 2009 10:53 GMT
imagine a bowulf cluster of those #
... no, hold on, wait ...
I'll get me coat.
(Paris 'cos she loves a cluster)
Posted Wednesday 4th February 2009 11:20 GMT
Wonder how many solar panels it would take to power this? #
Wonder how many solar panels it would take to power this, and how much desert space would be needed?
Posted Thursday 5th February 2009 01:09 GMT
Singularity in T minus 5 years? #
20PF is ostensibly enough for functional whole brain emulation. See http://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/Reports/2008-3.pdf. http://www.mattbamberger.com/content/LetsBuildABrain. http://singularity.com/charts/page71.html. Is Rapture for the geeks closer than most of us realise?
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