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IBM unveils world's fastest computer - matching the power of two million laptops
The Telegraph ^
| 2/3/2009
Posted on 02/03/2009 3:41:59 PM PST by bruinbirdman
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To: bruinbirdman
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posted on
02/03/2009 3:43:31 PM PST
by
js1138
To: bruinbirdman
“Sequoia will chug along at 20 petaflops per second and is one order of magnitude quicker than its predecessor. “
Yeah, but no one will be really impressed unless it fits in a cell phone.
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posted on
02/03/2009 3:45:37 PM PST
by
JSteff
(It was ALL about SCOTUS. Most forget about that and may have doomed us for a generation or more.)
To: js1138
“Vista ready.”
No, but it Dell says it can be downgraded at no cost to XP.
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posted on
02/03/2009 3:47:03 PM PST
by
JSteff
(It was ALL about SCOTUS. Most forget about that and may have doomed us for a generation or more.)
To: bruinbirdman
petaflop? youd think they could have come up with a better name.
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posted on
02/03/2009 3:47:16 PM PST
by
TASMANIANRED
(TAZ:Untamed, Unpredictable, Uninhibited.)
To: js1138
>>Vista ready.<<
Finally, a computer that can really let Vista show what it can do!
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posted on
02/03/2009 3:48:21 PM PST
by
RobRoy
(Islam is a greater threat to the world today than Nazism was in the 1930's.)
To: bruinbirdman
OK, now I gotta sell my two million laptops I got connected together and get me one of these!
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posted on
02/03/2009 3:49:54 PM PST
by
\/\/ayne
(I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
To: bruinbirdman
Skynet is happy.
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posted on
02/03/2009 3:52:27 PM PST
by
rednesss
(Fred Thompson - 2008)
To: bruinbirdman
How fast does it load Free Republic is the big question, before I buy one?
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posted on
02/03/2009 3:53:06 PM PST
by
razorback-bert
(Save the planet...it is the only known one with beer!)
To: razorback-bert
"How fast does it load Free Republic is the big question, before I buy one?"It would be a lot cheaper to bump the freepathon and let Jim buy another bag of peanuts to feed the hamsters running the wheel...
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posted on
02/03/2009 3:59:14 PM PST
by
Abathar
(Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
To: TASMANIANRED
petaflop? youd think they could have come up with a better name. It follows the name convention they have used for a long time. Peta is a term for quadrillion and FLOP stands for floating point operations per second.
To: rednesss
Thats exactly what flashed through my mind when I read the headline to the article. We’ve been making films for years about AI and the destruction of a civilization, wonder how long we got!!!! LOL
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posted on
02/03/2009 4:09:57 PM PST
by
Edizzl79
(you want my guns..come and get em...I dare ya....)
To: js1138; JSteff
Vista ready.LOL. But here is the real story:
Sequoia, which is expected to be operational in 2012, runs on 1.5 million embedded IBM PowerPC chips and uses the Linux operating system and embedded software to manage communications among the chips
You can find the article
here.
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posted on
02/03/2009 4:23:49 PM PST
by
stripes1776
("That if gold rust, what shall iron do?" --Chaucer)
To: Edizzl79
You know long before Terminator, there was Frank Herbert and Dune. Humans enslaved for centuries by computer overlords. Not out of this realm as it will start as a defense project to replace human soldiers on the battlefield.
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posted on
02/03/2009 4:24:50 PM PST
by
rednesss
(Fred Thompson - 2008)
To: bruinbirdman
The media reports this, yet is strangely silent about the massive lay-off IBM had last week. Wonder if Sam Palmisano glad-handing with Obama at the White House last Wednesday has anything to do with the news blackout about the lay-offs?
To: bruinbirdman
"20 petaflops" Didn't I see those on ten vegan protester women?
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posted on
02/03/2009 4:33:39 PM PST
by
Uncle Miltie
(Congress declares a National Dividend in the amount of $9,000 per taxpayer instead of Porkulus.)
To: JSteff
Not worth squat with a standard DSL line.
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posted on
02/03/2009 4:39:50 PM PST
by
Recon Dad
(Marsoc Dad)
To: bruinbirdman
Can you Run Falcon 4 on that system.I’d love to have that.
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posted on
02/03/2009 4:42:18 PM PST
by
puppypusher
(The world is going to the dogs.)
To: ThomasThomas
It may be functional but it sounds like walking behind an elephant with a shovel.
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posted on
02/03/2009 4:42:23 PM PST
by
TASMANIANRED
(TAZ:Untamed, Unpredictable, Uninhibited.)
To: bruinbirdman
Just in time for more GIGO “climate change” data modeling.
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