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IBM builds fastest computer (again)
Posted by: dadmin on: 06/29/2000 04:22 PM [ Print | 6 comment(s) ]
ABCNews is reporting on the fastest computer in the world, ASCI White by IBM, that is used to simulate nuclear explosions and other wonderful things:
The $110 million ASCI White has a theoretical maximum power of 12.3 teraflops, or floating-point calculations per second. IBM researchers have gotten the system running at more than 4 teraflops so far, said Dave Turek, IBM’s vice president of deep computing.Wow, i bet it gets at least 150FPS in Quake 3 Arena...
The super-supercomputer is actually a colony of 512 smaller computers working together. The RS/6000 machines are yoked together by special hardware and software, but they’re essentially the same as the machines found in many businesses.Cool. Now all i need is a warehouse and a winning lottery ticket to power the beast. Get the rest over here
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duke Posts: 108 Joined: 2000-05-19 |
#3901 Posted on: 02/17/2005 08:58 PM
The Register has posted a review of IBM's Thinkpad T42p. The T42p sports ATI's Mobility Fire GL T2 workstation graphics chip. What sets a workstation chip apart from standard graphics chips is its certification for use with certain high-end graphical design packages. So if you want a notebook to run a CAD package, or a 3D rendering application, you'll want one that has a graphics chip approved by the software vendor. That way, when you run a preview of that complicated scene that you've been working on for days, you know it will work.This really does look like a mobile workstation. You might want to take a look. |
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duke Posts: 108 Joined: 2000-05-19 |
#3902 Posted on: 02/17/2005 09:38 PM
Mozilla's Firefox has reached the 25 Million download plateau! A website by the name of spreadfirefox.com has the story. With a minimal set of tools |
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duke Posts: 108 Joined: 2000-05-19 |
#3903 Posted on: 02/17/2005 10:20 PM
Mozilla's Firefox has reached the 25 Million download plateau! A website by the name of spreadfirefox.com has the story. With a minimal set of tools |
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Jim_ Administrator Posts: 3464 Joined: 2000-03-15 |
#3904 Posted on: 02/17/2005 10:25 PM
The guys over at SFFTech have posted a review of Iwill's ZMAXdp SFF. If I'm not mistaken, Hooz is running one of these units in the secret 2CPU.com underground test bunker. After previewing two "engineering samples" and now reviewing the final shipping product, we can confidently say that the ZMAXdp continues to amaze us. As you |
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duke Administrator Posts: 108 Joined: 2000-05-19 |
#3905 Posted on: 02/17/2005 10:31 PM
Mozilla's Firefox has reached the 25 Million download plateau! A website by the name of spreadfirefox.com has the story. With a minimal set of tools |
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Jim_ Administrator Posts: 3464 Joined: 2000-03-15 |
#3906 Posted on: 02/17/2005 10:33 PM
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