HPC
Cray launches Gemini super interconnect
The final piece of Cray's "Baker" XE6 massively parallel supercomputers, on which the company's financial 2010 hinges, make its debut today. The unveiling comes a week ahead of the International Super Computing conference in Hamburg, Germany, and at Cray's user group meeting in Edinburgh, Scotland. Cray has not said much …
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Well, there's Edinburgh, Indiana...
...population 4500, area 2.8 sq miles. Or Edinburgh, the suburb of Adelaide, population 168 plus an air force base. Both entirely plausible locations for a Cray User Group conference :-)
Edinburgh near Adelaide
Sorry, couldn't resist...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edinburgh,_South_Australia
Compilation will be fun
Not often you get to type make -j 1000000 legitimately
Thats if make was made with more than an integer argument - "32768 jobs, think we'll be OK guys..."
Paris, because she has no jobs(*)
[* for those who argue, when did 'being Paris' become a job?]
Wow, that is really cool...
and it'll be able to run through what was a crushing amount of data pretty quickly. I wonder how long it would take to break different encryption algorithms with a million cores or sort terabytes of data.
Conspiracy....no. Governments will use these systems for both.
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