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Miscellaneous => The Lounge => Topic started by: Orethrius on 27 March 2005, 03:35

Title: Who wants to bet it uses OS/2?
Post by: Orethrius on 27 March 2005, 03:35

IBM's Blue Gene/L bypasses NEC's Earth Simulator (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4379261.stm)

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...

Title: Re: Who wants to bet it uses OS/2?
Post by: Kintaro on 28 March 2005, 01:29

Hrm, after looking on the IBM Website (http://www-03.ibm.com/technology/power/splash/032105bluegene.html) they use the IBM PowerPC

Title: Re: Who wants to bet it uses OS/2?
Post by: Orethrius 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.  ;)

Title: Re: Who wants to bet it uses OS/2?
Post by: Kintaro on 29 March 2005, 15:44

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

Supercomputer and Intel could build quite the oxymoron