Where are the intel fanboiz?

*cricket cricket*

Hey, I have one in this machine, but apparently smarter people than me use AMD. I lemming'ed out and went intel for no apparent reason and no performance gain. It did cost more this round though which was a great plus over AMD.

42!

They are certainly not mothballed! The supercomputers at academic universities are always under extreme demand. It's often a coup just to get some on them. Academics have to limit the scope of their programs to run in the time alloted to them. Faster computers mean more complex, more complete, programs can be run in the same time.

We already know what it's going to find: 42.

Crapular, ever since actual nuclear testing was banned by fiat, then treaty, in the U.S., we have had to develop ways to model warhead behaviour over time to ensure they don't go boom in the middle of the night.

Also, to develop better warhead designs.

There are additionally a number of large-scale problems tractable only on systems of this magnitude.

So the need is there.

One of the more annoying comments I read.

Sharon?
Where did I put me sexy trousers?

I really question what results require these super-OMG-fabulous machines.

I mean really, are these machines just build to speed garner records, and then mothballed?

What massively parallel, multinode, application requires 100,000 processors?

Sounds like a waste of resources.

how Nick Farrell ever got a job as a journalist. well not within this lifetime anyway.

Could Deep Thought make a nice hot cuppa?

Still, the mysteries of BistroMath lie beyond the capabilities of human understanding, even with nice, new, shiny toys like Krakken.

http://www.willitblend.com/

if, as someone pontificated, a core is equivilent to an ant's mental processing capability - surely we arn't far away from a "deep thought" type scenario?
screw coding. ask it what you want.

can you run crysis on it?

But can it make me a cuppa tea?

Power consumption? 2-3 Megawatts?