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Whadda'yat? Eh?

'Guess they're real keeners, eh?

posted by : Labattomy, 16 August 2008 Complain about this comment
Including Nehalem

More than 4,000 servers will be linked together in this multi-platform solution, including one of the world's largest POWER6 clusters and Intel x86-based clusters. This IBM supercomputer will be one of the first systems to use Future Intel® Nehalem processor families, being introduced in early 2009. 

(source:http://www.news.utoronto.ca/campus-news/u-of-t-to-acquire-canadas-most-powerful-supercomputer-from-ibm.html)

posted by : MoreInfo, 15 August 2008 Complain about this comment
Huh?

Ok this has to stop.

"360 trillion calculations per second"

What happened to teraflops?

But this one is even worse:

"...equivalent to one million DVDs."

Seriously, how many Libraries of Congress is that? How many Elephants per mile? How many one sided sheets of A5 paper stacked on top of each other?

This is a technology website, can we please have articles that contain at least an ounce of technical language and less copy and paste from press-releases.

At least use SI measurements and prefixes.

posted by : Ben, 15 August 2008 Complain about this comment
The data storage will be equivalent to one million DVDs.

Single or Dual Layer?

posted by : Chris, 15 August 2008 Complain about this comment

High ranking supercomputer en route to Canadian uni

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