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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Tuesday 3rd February 2009 19:04 GMT Peter H. Coffin

"Dawn"

What a fine name for a machine modelling Instant Sunshine....

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Tuesday 3rd February 2009 21:59 GMT Anonymous Coward

Yes, but......

will it run Crysis in full mode?

or (shudder) Vista?

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Tuesday 3rd February 2009 21:59 GMT Anonymous Coward

Will it run crisis?

Will it run crisis?

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Tuesday 3rd February 2009 21:59 GMT Anonymous Coward

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.

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Tuesday 3rd February 2009 21:59 GMT Tim Shears

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

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Tuesday 3rd February 2009 21:59 GMT Anonymous Coward

Next Stop...

...The NSA. I bet they'll get their hands on one soon!

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Tuesday 3rd February 2009 21:59 GMT Ken Lord

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!

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Wednesday 4th February 2009 10:53 GMT paul

imagine a bowulf cluster of those

... no, hold on, wait ...

I'll get me coat.

(Paris 'cos she loves a cluster)

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Wednesday 4th February 2009 11:20 GMT Justin Clift

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?

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Thursday 5th February 2009 01:09 GMT Anonymous Coward

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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