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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

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A friend of mine at IBM told me the first time Los Alamos Labs turned on their Blue Gene super computer it browned out the whole town. Got a furious call from the power company.


5 posted on 10/28/2010 9:17:23 AM PDT by DManA
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A friend of mine at IBM told me the first time Los Alamos Labs turned on their Blue Gene super computer it browned out the whole town.

LOL!! I did something similar. Fired up a cluster for the Navy, and four buildings went down. The power they had supplied for me wasn't adequate for the job. :)

7 posted on 10/28/2010 9:20:36 AM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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