let's try to get this guy on our team!

[zangler]

i read this article http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20011109/tc/tech_ibm_supercomputer_dc_1.html

and since it will be able to do 1000 teraflops/sec, i figured it would be a nice addition to our team. that comes out to about 21,600,000 wu's a day!! we would be first in no time!

[chawken]

Yeah, be in first in about 4 hrs. Also, in about a day, it would exhaust all WU's, and we would have nothing to crunch. Technology is great - just keep it away from Seti.

[TC]

LOL, we could be in first and sell off our equipment tomorrow and look for something else to do.

[Cy]

Something...else?

Cy

[TC]

well seeing as how that computer could single handedly tackle every work unit as fast as they could produce them, there wouldn't be anything left for the rest of us to do.

[JigPu]

Hmmmmmm..... Mabey I could get it to crunch primes for me....

"WORLD LARGEST LIST OF PRIME NUMBERS!"

Sorry.... I'm as obsessed with primes as with SETI.... Constantly updating my prime number program to find the faster.... Too bad I can't understand how to do the sieves.... That would speed me up some....


JigPu

[lennytiger]

good one jigpu

[DeltaSierra]

Running out of WUs to process wouldn't be the biggest problem to deal with. At some 15,000 WUs per minute, there'd be no way to upload and download that much info to keep the system busy. It would spend most of its time waiting for the data to come and go!!

[zangler]

it could work if you had a seperate system on a fast intranet connected to the super computer whos only job was to act as a cach for the super computer.

[M@€$†®Ö™]

Originally posted by TC
LOL, we could be in first and sell off our equipment tomorrow and look for something else to do.

LMFAO ! And Ohh Yeah I am back in the MIX as well :P

Maestro

[oc jason]

that is simply amazing, to imagine watching those WU fill, man that is uncomprehendably fast

[deez]

"Computing power aside, ASCI White is still several times larger than the Blue Gene/L will be. It's about the size of two basketball courts, while Blue Gene/L could fit into one-half of a tennis court, IBM said."

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAA

[TC]

Originally posted by deez
"Computing power aside, ASCI White is still several times larger than the Blue Gene/L will be. It's about the size of two basketball courts, while Blue Gene/L could fit into one-half of a tennis court, IBM said."

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAA Would be interesting to compare vac tube tech to the current project. How large was eniac? Funny though - I prefer tubes in my audio amplifiers.... I love my VK60.

[killem1x1]

Why can't we have just one to play with? ;)

[rugby]

We could run dnet client and get the thousand dollars quickly. Then find the cure for cancer with that Intel distributed app.

[lennytiger]

I like the idea!