Meanwhile, across town...
Hate to 'post and run' - but, I've got to close this place up and head for home!
In another year or so, they can use it to calculate the hyperinflation rate.
Give me quantum or give me flops.
But due to Coal Power cutbacks, the computer will only be able to operate briefly during non-peak power usage periods which will curtail the total computing output to tube-computer days.
The EPA said: “We’re working on that! With the advent of more green power, we should be able to increase their total computing output to the early solid state computers”.
When the EPA was asked when that would be, they stated: “We’re not sure, however, on of our top engineers was overheard saying, “When hell freezes over.””.
But due to Coal Power cutbacks, the computer will only be able to operate briefly during non-peak power usage periods which will curtail the total computing output to tube-computer days.
The EPA said: “We’re working on that! With the advent of more green power, we should be able to increase their total computing output to the early solid state computers”.
When the EPA was asked when that would be, they stated: “We’re not sure, however, on of our top engineers was overheard saying, “When hell freezes over.””.
How many calculations does it have to crunch to know we’re screwed if we get rid of our nukes and everyone else doesn’t?
Pretty soon all the only nukes this freaking country will have are going to be simulated.
Here’s a complete list: http://www.top500.org/list/2012/06/100
Back in 2010 I was privileged to visit the system which is now #17 located in France. Our company, Bull, had just installed it. At the time it was at the top of the heap for European installations. These beasts are HUGE! There are so many cooling fans screeching that we were required to wear noise suppression ear muffs as we walked through the room.
We, at Bull, work with the folks from Lawrence Livermore Labs on the open software job scheduler used by a plurality of high-end HPC systems including the #1 system. The LLNL folks and a separate company do all the modifications required by the IBM BlueGene systems. The BlueGene optical interconnect is a really complex communications fabric which makes the scheduling requirements very specific to their architecture.
Meanwhile, across town...
That should come in handy after the global crash.
That's almost fast enough to print money!
I wonder how well “Call of Duty” would run on this “confuser” thing??? ;-)
This will be a short term victory. Rube Goldberg would highly approve.