Hammer time!

MonsieurEvilMonsieurEvil Join Date: 2002-01-22 Member: 4Members, Retired Developer, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
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<div class="IPBDescription">Can't touch this...</div><a href="http://www.theregus.com/content/3/26720.html" target="_blank">New Cray Supercomputer powered by 16,000 Opterons</a>

Imagine being the sales rep that gets the commission off this one?
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  • MonklaMonkla Join Date: 2002-10-08 Member: 1458Members
    my my my my music hits me so hard makes me say oh lord
    thank you for blessing me with a mind to rhyme and two hyped feet
    thats good when you know you're down
    a superbowl homeboy from oaktown
    and im known as such
    and this is a beat uh you cant touch.

    go M.C Hammer
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  • CrouchingHamsterCrouchingHamster Join Date: 2002-08-17 Member: 1181Members
    I always thought it was a shame that those crazy hammer-trousers never caught on..

    They looked very comfortable.

    Edit: back on topic, I wonder what the 3DMark scores would be like...
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  • Nemesis_ZeroNemesis_Zero Old European Join Date: 2002-01-25 Member: 75Members, Retired Developer, NS1 Playtester, Constellation
    ...

    This thread went from 0 to off-topic in what? 10 seconds?

    Anyway, I think I could get comfortable with that as SHODAN 2, MonsE <!--emo&:)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'><!--endemo-->
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  • MonsieurEvilMonsieurEvil Join Date: 2002-01-22 Member: 4Members, Retired Developer, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    Actually, there IS a SHODAN2 at the office now. It is roughly twice as fast as SHODAN1, according to synthetic and practical benchmarks.

    Anyone want to actually reply to this topic? If you're familiar with Supercomputing, this is a major departure for Cray. Using these off the shelf PC-Server processors in a massive sort of mega-symetric configuration is quite an interesting proposition.
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  • JopsJops Join Date: 2002-09-13 Member: 1312Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--CrouchingHamster+HiddenElvis,Oct. 22 2002,13:33--></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td><b>Quote</b> (CrouchingHamster @ HiddenElvis,Oct. 22 2002,13:33)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE"><!--QuoteEBegin-->I always thought it was a shame that those crazy hammer-trousers never caught on..

    They looked very comfortable.

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    Well I had a pair, and yes they were cumfy- I was watching an 80's family video- its crazy sometimes... <!--emo&:)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'><!--endemo-->
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  • MonklaMonkla Join Date: 2002-10-08 Member: 1458Members
    well when i saw the words hammertime i had to post part of the words to the song
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  • alius42alius42 Join Date: 2002-07-23 Member: 987Members
    I'll add to that thought Monse.

    Up till now supercomputers consisted of custum built hardware, which made it VERY VERY expensive to build and maintain. The proposition to do it with retail level chips and hardware is reletively new. I've been hearing about it in the last few months. So you can see why this is so "groundbreaking". With the cost reduced so drasticly it can mean alot to computation intensive research such as protein folding and things such as seti@home for example. While it would still be quite expensive to build and maintain this kind of supercomputer it would be no where near the old expense, with the custum fabrication and all.
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