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Article: 'Personal supercomputer' goes on sale |
'Personal supercomputer' goes on sale
16:20 04 May 2005
Will Knight
A personal computer that packs the processing punch of a miniature
supercomputer has gone on sale in the US.
The DC-96 computer was developed by Orion Multisystems in California, US,
and is aimed at scientists and engineers who routinely carry out
computationally intensive calculations.
About the size of small refrigerator, the DC-96 contains a "cluster" of 96
interconnected low-voltage microprocessors, each of which is capable of
running at 1.2 Gigahertz, or 1.2 billion cycles per second.
Together, these processors give the machine a peak computing power of 230
gigaflops, or the ability to carry out 230 billion complex mathematical
operations every second. The machine also comes with a massive 192 gigabytes
of memory.
Such computer power does not come cheap, however, and one DC-96 costs
$100,000. But Orion Multisystems claims the DC-96 offers an alternative for
those who normally have to share supercomputer power within a laboratory or
company.
Rob Edwards, a microbiologist scientist at San Diego State University, US,
has been testing the DC-96 for genomic research. "The system has allowed us
to complete research tasks more efficiently than we would be able to with
larger computer clusters," he says.
Full Text at NewScientist
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7340
Word on the street:
Oh yeah?? So what games can you run on this thing???
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Robert Karl Stonjek
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| User: "Greysky" |
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| Title: Re: Article: 'Personal supercomputer' goes on sale |
05 May 2005 07:35:29 PM |
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"Robert Karl Stonjek" <stonjek@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
news:Xbxee.4068$31.2141@news-server.bigpond.net.au...
'Personal supercomputer' goes on sale
16:20 04 May 2005
Will Knight
A personal computer that packs the processing punch of a miniature
supercomputer has gone on sale in the US.
The DC-96 computer was developed by Orion Multisystems in California, US,
and is aimed at scientists and engineers who routinely carry out
computationally intensive calculations.
About the size of small refrigerator, the DC-96 contains a "cluster" of 96
interconnected low-voltage microprocessors, each of which is capable of
running at 1.2 Gigahertz, or 1.2 billion cycles per second.
Together, these processors give the machine a peak computing power of 230
gigaflops, or the ability to carry out 230 billion complex mathematical
operations every second. The machine also comes with a massive 192
gigabytes
of memory.
Such computer power does not come cheap, however, and one DC-96 costs
$100,000. But Orion Multisystems claims the DC-96 offers an alternative
for
those who normally have to share supercomputer power within a laboratory
or
company.
Rob Edwards, a microbiologist scientist at San Diego State University, US,
has been testing the DC-96 for genomic research. "The system has allowed
us
to complete research tasks more efficiently than we would be able to with
larger computer clusters," he says.
Full Text at NewScientist
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7340
Word on the street:
Oh yeah?? So what games can you run on this thing???
Truly. I could actually afford that, and I wouldn't have to upgrade for a
while. But can it run Windows? Science aside, if it can't run my collection
of games on the side, there's not much use for it.
Greysky
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| User: "Uncle Al" |
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| Title: Re: Article: 'Personal supercomputer' goes on sale |
05 May 2005 07:13:32 PM |
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Robert Karl Stonjek wrote:
'Personal supercomputer' goes on sale
16:20 04 May 2005
Will Knight
A personal computer that packs the processing punch of a miniature
supercomputer has gone on sale in the US.
[snip]
About the size of small refrigerator,
[snip]
Such computer power does not come cheap, however, and one DC-96 costs
$100,000.
[snip]
You call that a "personal computer?" How much wattage does it suck -
and how much more must you add to cool it?
Full Text at NewScientist
[snip]
Contemptible hype.
--
Uncle Al
http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/
(Toxic URL! Unsafe for children and most mammals)
http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/qz.pdf
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| User: "Robert Karl Stonjek" |
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| Title: Re: Article: 'Personal supercomputer' goes on sale |
06 May 2005 04:45:11 AM |
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"Uncle Al" <UncleAl0@hate.spam.net> wrote in message
news:427AB6AC.3C1BD965@hate.spam.net...
Robert Karl Stonjek wrote:
'Personal supercomputer' goes on sale
16:20 04 May 2005
Will Knight
A personal computer that packs the processing punch of a miniature
supercomputer has gone on sale in the US.
[snip]
About the size of small refrigerator,
[snip]
Such computer power does not come cheap, however, and one DC-96 costs
$100,000.
[snip]
You call that a "personal computer?" How much wattage does it suck -
and how much more must you add to cool it?
Full Text at NewScientist
[snip]
Contemptible hype.
--
Uncle Al
http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/
(Toxic URL! Unsafe for children and most mammals)
http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/qz.pdf
RKS:
I'm running a sophisticated personality profiler on mine.
Let me demonstrate....
I put in all Uncle Al's recent posts and it should be able to sketch a
personality profile and possibly even suggest physical features - it is
really sophisticated....say, this is exciting, isn't it....
.....time passes...
That's funny, the computer threw up. Maybe I should send it back for repair
under warrantee?
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Kind Regards
Robert Karl Stonjek
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| User: "Ben Rudiak-Gould" |
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| Title: Re: Article: 'Personal supercomputer' goes on sale |
06 May 2005 07:00:52 AM |
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Robert Karl Stonjek wrote:
[...] the DC-96 contains a "cluster" of 96
interconnected low-voltage microprocessors, each of which is capable of
running at 1.2 Gigahertz [...]
Word on the street:
Oh yeah?? So what games can you run on this thing???
Hmm... it should be fast enough to run Backlight[1] in real time. Ever since
I discovered Fisheye Quake, I've wanted Relativistic Quake...
-- Ben
[1] http://www.anu.edu.au/Physics/Searle/Images.html
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