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Uncle Sam buys 20 petaflops BlueGene super

Peter H. Coffin

"Dawn" 

Posted Tuesday 3rd February 2009 19:04 GMT

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

Anonymous Coward

Yes, but...... 

Posted Tuesday 3rd February 2009 21:59 GMT

will it run Crysis in full mode?

or (shudder) Vista?

Anonymous Coward

Will it run crisis? 

Posted Tuesday 3rd February 2009 21:59 GMT

Will it run crisis?

Iam Me

All well and good 

Posted Tuesday 3rd February 2009 21:59 GMT

Joke

But will it play Crysis on max settings and full AA?

Sorry, it had to be said. I'll get my coat now.

Tim Shears

WOW 

Posted Tuesday 3rd February 2009 21:59 GMT

Paris Hilton

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

Anonymous Coward

Next Stop... 

Posted Tuesday 3rd February 2009 21:59 GMT

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

Ken Lord

Notice from the department of redundancy department 

Posted Tuesday 3rd February 2009 21:59 GMT

" 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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paul

imagine a bowulf cluster of those 

Posted Wednesday 4th February 2009 10:53 GMT

Paris Hilton

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

I'll get me coat.

(Paris 'cos she loves a cluster)

Justin Clift

Wonder how many solar panels it would take to power this? 

Posted Wednesday 4th February 2009 11:20 GMT

Heart

Wonder how many solar panels it would take to power this, and how much desert space would be needed?

Anonymous Coward

Singularity in T minus 5 years? 

Posted Thursday 5th February 2009 01:09 GMT

Alien

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?