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Posted in DARPA: Can we have a one-cabinet petaflop supercomputer?
Posted Monday 29th June 2009 09:28 GMT
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Only one question really.

If somebody makes one, how long before somebody else buys a roomful and builds a DBHPC* cluster of 'em, chewing megawatts of power and producing oodleflops of grunt?

Alright, two questions. How long after it's done before DARPA tout for *that* in a 19" cabinet......

*Dog's Bollocks High Performance Computer.

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