[driftdiver]

Hope they run on coconuts or something else, because at the present rate we won’t have enough electricity to run these marvels.

[samtheman]

he SCC is based on Intel's X86 architecture, meaning it can run operating systems found in normal desktop computers such as Windows

Wow. 32 blue screens of death, all at the same time... that I gotta see.

[TruthWillWin]

Is that you HAL?

[SunkenCiv]

The Single-chip Cloud Computer (SCC)... contains 1.3 billion transistors... top-end chips for desktop computers typically contain four separate processors. Intel and Rival AMD will both launch six-core devices in 2010... The SCC is made up of 24 "tiles" each one of which is effectively a dual-core processor. The chip maker said the research that had gone into the chip suggests that it could, eventually, cram 100 cores onto a single piece of silicon. In 2007, the firm showed off an 80-core processor, whilst earlier this year a US firm called Tilera announced a 100-core chip. Also graphics chip maker Nvidia has previewed its next-generation processor that has 512 cores.

playstation 3 supercomputer site:freerepublic.com

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After the Folding@Home software was ported to the PS/3, the first petaflop came within a few months; the PS/3s went over a petaflop on their own a few weeks later; and after the software was ported to GPUs, the numbers changed faster than a 1960s McDonald's sign (or other appropriate metaphor).