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Message 53598 - Posted: 9 Jun 2008, 11:14:50 UTC
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/09/technology/09petaflops.html?th&emc=th

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Message 53600 - Posted: 9 Jun 2008, 11:29:27 UTC
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the belgian beat me to it !!!

p.s. whats up with your rac? are you feeding it steroids ?!
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Message 53602 - Posted: 9 Jun 2008, 15:39:36 UTC - in response to Message 53600.  

I like that they are using modified PS3 chips and AMD chips. Blending the two seems like a very cool idea.




the belgian beat me to it !!!

p.s. whats up with your rac? are you feeding it steroids ?!


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Message 53609 - Posted: 9 Jun 2008, 20:05:10 UTC
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Now if only they would use those modified PS3 chips in a PS3 !!!

And for Intel-land:

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Message 53937 - Posted: 23 Jun 2008, 19:32:45 UTC - in response to Message 53598.  

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/09/technology/09petaflops.html?th&emc=th

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http://www.lanl.gov/news/index.php/fuseaction/home.story/story_id/13602
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Message 55290 - Posted: 25 Aug 2008, 22:34:21 UTC

that's all fine and dandy.. though it would be better if they ran rosetta@home clients on their super computer when its not being used for weapons research (whatever that is)
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