While the oil cash mainly goes to the x hundreth king or prince of saudi and their families, as they go and marry x amount of wives - think the 90something tried to marry the 17 year egyptian girl story i read somewhere - and enjoying the ceasers bathroom like entertainment. The rest of the country still remains somewhere in the past, history and hasn't really moved on.

Trying to slave the people off especially from the indian continent desperately looking for jobs and are willing to do any job - these guys are being paid just over £2 a day and 10 litres of water for the day (thats for the whole group of 30) this is modern day 'legal' slavery like the parohos did to the jews, no other country would allow this, in the U.K we have the minimum wage and its illegal to pay less.

That's if the bbc are to be believed. They (saudis) are trying to build a city all from scratch in the middle of the sandy desert!

It's like this, the rich only get richer and the poor stay where they are and die a poor death. The oil running out is good news, also the fact that due to global warming people are buying smaller engine cars and thinking green and some plane companys going bust... all this could only be good for the people that actually want to sustain the planet for future generations, unlike the greedy, rich gits and their profits.

I can't believe they are rewarding them (bankers) for failing with public cash... they should have taken the china rule and... you know what that guy got for taking bribes... i think he got killed.

I'd really like to see all the rich bankers and some kings, royals etc going into the job centre looking for work, that'd be something, just so they know what the average person goes through.

"We wonder if that could be called data mining then?" 

:-) It is actually MetaDataMining now. ..... which is an Advanced Artificial Intelligence Test of ITs SMARTer Enabling Programmer TraffIQ Programs ..... with Civilianised Virtualised CyberSpaceFlight Power Controls.

Currently Perfectly Plausibly Deniable whenever Always Plausibly and/or Recklessly Denied.

What are they going to do with it until all those scientists flood in to use it? Maybe they could run SETI @ Home.

The article doesn't mention which processors make up the bulk of the 65K installed. Knowing it's IBM, one can guess it would be some version of it's PowerPC chips. 

Now I've read numerous articles showcasing the difference GPU's can make towards computing. For example I recall a Medical imaging computer that went from a $16000 8 cpu system, to a $4000 quad GPU system that outperformed it significantly. There were also the dedicated hardware AEGIA physX chips. 

The question is, which company is going to 'blend' them all together into a supercomputer whose performance is significantly higher then just using the poor CPUs by themselves....?