L stood for "Light", as in not quite the full heavy BlueGene we will build in the future. 15 PS2s to control an unmanned air vehicle? What are you talking about, 'only one job'? Not just doing research that will "eventually contribute to treatments". If he wants vector hardware and 64-bit CPUs, he can't just place an order with Hitachi or MIPS. The previous one was Blue Gene/L and the current one is Blue Gene/P. Most notably, Sony is not an American company and Saddam could have easily acquired his PS2s in Japan, Taiwan or Europe. Elon Musk Unveils 'Cybertruck' Electric Pickup Truck, I'm the laughing gnome, you can't catch me, Re:I'm the laughing gnome, - SGI Octane Songs, http://www.digibarn.com/collections/songs/sgi/inde x.html, Saddam Hussein was purchasing Sony PS2s by the thousands, IBM Saves $250M Running Linux On Mainframes, http://cgi.ebay.com/Cray-J90-Supercomputer-1-CPU-. A British ingredient in our rockin' international gumbo.

And, yes, the infinite loop was there on purpose - just beyond the function's reach, 1 line away might have been a million. The political motives of any news source should be taken into consideration. Secondary processors are 32 bit. "We're about to bring out the P series, so lets sell off the L series 'cheap'". Or is he going to use it for voting in leu of paper ballots for their next election. this is one of the few postings where "Beowulf Cluster" is appropriate?
Or worse. Everyday its the same thing - variety. And knowing most super computers, both would be far too large, ugly, and filled with silicon. The PS2 Weapon Development Platform(tm) might be a bit much, but how hard do you think it is for Saddam to get his hands on a bunch of PC's? Stack Exchange Removes Moderator For Preferred Pronouns Policy, Twitter Flags Trump and White House Tweets About Minneapolis Protests for 'Glorifying Violence', Kamala Harris Asks Twitter To Suspend Donald Trump For 'Civil War' and Whistleblower Tweets. The patriotism of Americans is one of the things that makes the United States such a strong country in every respect, even as divided as it was in the recent election. In fact, I've deployed many machines and software systems on distributed architectures that require collective. The onboard image processor is more powerful than the image processor on a Tomahawk cruise missile. Yeah I got the reference. All Rights Reserved. One of these days, I'm going to catch you, and I'm going to carve my name on your back with an ice pick!. He won't use them in weapons, he's gonna sell them on eBay and use the proceeds to buy weapons. Without JavaScript enabled, you might want to turn on Classic Discussion System in your preferences instead. Apperantly the perfect 5 score is only a theoretical number that is meant to get users to endlessly upgrade to new systems and sell more licenses.

So is it a 32-bit CPU or a 128-bit CPU? Processor cycles are cheap, but that's not why your supercomputer is expensive. yeah man,truth is way stranger than fiction. Clusters of independent workstations do not preclude you from using a fast interconnect. And therein lies my concern and my worry. If the extremists in that part of the world had some semi-intelligent leadership, they'd be really dangerous. A lot of it has to deal with how you define a super computer. TIL that Saddam Hussein bought as many as 4000 Playstation 2's for use as a crude supercomputer to guide missile systems and other military applications. We must invade Iraq, steal all their PS2's, then nuke them into oblivion! Some problems are and you want one of the specialty interconnects: Myrinet, Infiniband, Quadrics Elan, or possibly even 10Gig-E. Clusters are supercomputers. Or he's gunna tell his army Duke Nuke'em is real and they took over the world. However, many problems solved by supercomputers or large clusters need communication between the compute nodes, so aren't amenable to distributed solutions. Yeah, i remember a story about some guys in the UK getting hassled/arrested/not sure for supplying banned tech to iraq - turned out they were smuggling motorola 68000 cpus! It's also one of the worst, most oppressive places in the world that you can live, even if you are a devout Muslim. Whether the story is true or not, it points to this fact. Imagine you're a reviled butt-much who wants to make everybody pay for being hwo they are and not spending every second kissing you *ss. Comments owned by the poster. Imagine how hot that must be in the desert sun. i don't see the big deal, they just took 100 PS2's and piggy backed them.

Banks and financial companies DEVOUR data, they're the real customers for this sort of thing. Obviously this article is a fake, but it raises an interesting point. In 2002, Sony released an odd product: Linux for the PlayStation 2. Unfortunately, he just happened to be from the big-labor-unions tax-and-spend party. Perhaps in return a new law will be passed by Saddam requiring all Iraqi citizens to purchase a Playstation 2 within 6 months or be gassed to death? Sean. I'll have to look into that, as I always heard, including from SGI-types, that they didn't want the underpowered Sparc system in their lineup, so they dumped it for cash. Backend departments like IT, however, are't nearly as profligate because in the end, they're cost centers, while client relations can potentially lead to additional revenue for the firm. JavaScript is disabled. Sadam is not the worry. Oh come on, that WND article doesn't pass muster. The most recent cluster I'm purchasing has an InfiniBand 4X DDR interconnect, sufficient for many supercomputing applications. FOR RUNNING VISTA the way it was meant to be run!!! I'm always bizarrely serious.
Oh well. It's my understanding that the A-bombs (dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki) were designed without the use of any computers at all. The right-wing press is infamous for their willingness to print anything that supports their position. The type of information will differ from user to user. Re:Either it's a hoax or...GPL violation! This site uses cookies to help personalise content, tailor your experience and to keep you logged in if you register. Release all your kernel mods! Supercompters aren't going anywhere fast. Some problems aren't tightly coupled (or your machine is small) and so an interconnect like Gig-E is fine. And easier than having to actually analyze your posts! You are in no way restricted to embarrassingly parallel problems with cluster computing. In addition to a Hello! The thing that strikes me in this article is the fact that the government knows upwards of 4000 ps2 units have been bought and shipped out of the country. Now days clusters are the way to go. My concern is that the strong religious influence in the Republican party - highly organized and well established - frequently undermines the will of the people, who may be mostly Christian, but are also a lot more moderate than many of the Republican-leaning lobby groups out there. Supercomputer built out of PS2's. Actually it was their components which were supposed to be able to be used in missile systems... not the game system as a weapon. Being able to read the other guy's messages gives you a huge military advantage, and you sometimes need a supercomputer to do it in a reasonable time. But there's nothing about a distributed architecture that would preclude an algorithm that requires parallel communication.

WRT what China (or Iraq) could do with a supercomputer, there's still the issue of computer-aided cryptanalysis. 'Cepins now everything is hot for 100K years, so we'll just have to stay home for a while.