Re: IBM to build massive 20 Petaflop supercomputer for NNSA

On 4 Feb, 11:30, jmfbahciv <jmfbahciv@aol> wrote:
Benj wrote:
On Feb 4, 12:08 am, Sam Wormley <sworml...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
IBM to build massive 20 Petaflop supercomputer for NNSA
   http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/41307/113/

As far as earthquakes are concerned, the possibilities such a new system offers are
fascinating: We recently ran a story on the work being done by the Mid-America Earthquake
Center (MAE) at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and the impact
such research has on people living in areas threatened by earthquakes - down to even
predicting which houses may be destroyed and which may not.

You mean more like predicting which houses will be destroyed in WWIII
and whose won't.

Imagine the possibilities of continued, affordable supercomputer growth. What a
fascinating time we live in.

What total bull***!  Hey, dumbass. Take a GOOD look at that machine
right in front of you. NONE of it's operations are instant, wasting
gobs of our work-time. Just calculate how much productivity is wasted
in the world waiting for computers to "boot"

Then you're running the wrong OS.

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Yes, trouble is that the guys at Microsoft have not only produced
lousy software, they use unfair business practices to ram it down out
throats. You can't just put Linux on you have to make modifications to
the motherboard to run Linux.

Someone should offer Linux laptops at a reasonable price that can run
as fast as the old Cray. Of course if you put super Vista on the new
computer it might not even be as fast as the current laptop.

However the future is swarm based computing anyway. With any luck
Google, which BTW uses Linux and ordinary computers networked together
rather than supercomputers, will bury Microsoft iin the not too
distant future.


- Ian Parker

Good idea - Test those nukes on Redmond!


- Ian Parker
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