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Orethrius

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Who wants to bet it uses OS/2?
« on: 27 March 2005, 03:35 »
IBM's Blue Gene/L bypasses NEC's Earth Simulator

I'm just waiting them to contract ME to tell them they could use half the racks, or double their processing power, by replacing all the dual-cores with AMD Opterons.  First rule of government spending: why build one, when you can have two at twice the price?  :cool:

...then again, they could just cluster SPARCstations...
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Re: Who wants to bet it uses OS/2?
« Reply #1 on: 28 March 2005, 01:29 »
Hrm, after looking on the IBM Website they use the IBM PowerPC
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Re: Who wants to bet it uses OS/2?
« Reply #2 on: 29 March 2005, 09:47 »
Ah, well if it's using an evolution of the Quadra chipset (formerly a Mac model), I can maybe see that making more sense.  I was picturing the whole thing running Intel, and I just laughed my arse off at the inherent waste.  ;)
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Re: Who wants to bet it uses OS/2?
« Reply #3 on: 29 March 2005, 15:44 »
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

Supercomputer and Intel could build quite the oxymoron
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