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Airbus triples compute power with supercomputer upgrade for next-gen aircraft design
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| May 20, 2026
| Ameya Paleja
Posted on 05/20/2026 8:06:56 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: ShadowAce; dayglored; Swordmaker; CodeJockey
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05/20/2026 8:07:27 AM PDT
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Red Badger
(Iryna Zarutska, May 22, 2002 Kyiv, Ukraine – August 22, 2025 Charlotte, North Carolina Say her name)
To: Red Badger
Lots and lots of finite elephants with that rig!
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posted on
05/20/2026 8:10:18 AM PDT
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FreedomPoster
(Islam delenda est)
To: FreedomPoster
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posted on
05/20/2026 8:14:36 AM PDT
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Red Badger
(Iryna Zarutska, May 22, 2002 Kyiv, Ukraine – August 22, 2025 Charlotte, North Carolina Say her name)
To: 04-Bravo; 1FASTGLOCK45; 1stFreedom; 2ndDivisionVet; 2sheds; 60Gunner; 6AL-4V; A.A. Cunningham; ...
Aviation Ping!..................
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05/20/2026 8:15:52 AM PDT
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Red Badger
(Iryna Zarutska, May 22, 2002 Kyiv, Ukraine – August 22, 2025 Charlotte, North Carolina Say her name)
To: Red Badger
elephants?............. Elementary my dear Watson: Processing time will be trunkated.
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posted on
05/20/2026 8:18:54 AM PDT
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Carry_Okie
(The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
To: Red Badger
I remember replacing a 25 mhz crystal with a 50.
I figured it would blow the cpu, but it ran happily thereafter at 39 mhz.
To: ComputerGuy
Yeah, I remember guys at work were hot rodding their motherboards!................
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posted on
05/20/2026 8:23:04 AM PDT
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Red Badger
(Iryna Zarutska, May 22, 2002 Kyiv, Ukraine – August 22, 2025 Charlotte, North Carolina Say her name)
To: Carry_Okie
😣..........................
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05/20/2026 8:23:54 AM PDT
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Red Badger
(Iryna Zarutska, May 22, 2002 Kyiv, Ukraine – August 22, 2025 Charlotte, North Carolina Say her name)
To: Red Badger
Companies Like Boeing are the largest consumers of cloud computing.
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posted on
05/20/2026 8:24:14 AM PDT
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CodeToad
To: CodeToad
There is no ‘cloud’. It’s just somebody elses computer................😎
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posted on
05/20/2026 8:25:49 AM PDT
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Red Badger
(Iryna Zarutska, May 22, 2002 Kyiv, Ukraine – August 22, 2025 Charlotte, North Carolina Say her name)
To: Red Badger
Moderately inside joke.
Finite element analysis of the sort used for all sorts of complex structural, aerodynamic, heat transfer, etc problems is sometimes jokingly referred to as finite elephant analysis. And more computer => more finite elephants => better analysis.
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posted on
05/20/2026 8:32:34 AM PDT
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FreedomPoster
(Islam delenda est)
To: Red Badger
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05/20/2026 8:32:57 AM PDT
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CodeToad
To: Carry_Okie
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05/20/2026 8:34:00 AM PDT
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FreedomPoster
(Islam delenda est)
To: CodeToad
Someone needs to tell Kamala Harris. She thinks it is a cloud somewhere............
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05/20/2026 8:34:04 AM PDT
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Red Badger
(Iryna Zarutska, May 22, 2002 Kyiv, Ukraine – August 22, 2025 Charlotte, North Carolina Say her name)
To: FreedomPoster
I figured that’s what it meant................
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05/20/2026 8:36:25 AM PDT
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Red Badger
(Iryna Zarutska, May 22, 2002 Kyiv, Ukraine – August 22, 2025 Charlotte, North Carolina Say her name)
To: Red Badger
” the supercomputer on an ‘HPC-as-a-Service’ model where the aircraft manufacturer will shell out only €100 million (US$116 million) over a five-year period for the entire deal.”
this is really confusing because assets like this are depreciated to zero after 5 years.
and honestly $100 million dollars is a lot of money, I have never spent that, but there have been years where I have spent 1m+ on refresh.
probably I would be tempted to wait until next year for the next get gen Venice procs and mi350 cards
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posted on
05/20/2026 8:39:16 AM PDT
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algore
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To: algore
Sounds more like a lease agreement...................
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posted on
05/20/2026 8:41:22 AM PDT
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Red Badger
(Iryna Zarutska, May 22, 2002 Kyiv, Ukraine – August 22, 2025 Charlotte, North Carolina Say her name)
To: Red Badger
In her head! We could fit all kinds of data centers in that cloud!
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05/20/2026 9:02:19 AM PDT
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CodeToad
To: CodeToad
Did you ever see that speech she made where she pointed up to the sky and said that all our data was up there?...........
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posted on
05/20/2026 9:08:27 AM PDT
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Red Badger
(Iryna Zarutska, May 22, 2002 Kyiv, Ukraine – August 22, 2025 Charlotte, North Carolina Say her name)
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