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My next computer
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OK AliEnRIK, don't take offence, but I just HAVE to ask on this one - What type of mains leads will you use ? :beer:0 -
I don't know what the fuss is about. It's just a somewhat bigger version of the mainframes we had in the 1970s/80s. I think I recognise some of the elderly people wiring the boxes together as young IBM engineers then.
Ah, I remember when...
Nostalgia isn't what it used to be...0 -
Not quite a Super computer ..but still a pretty super computer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96dWOEa4Djs
A more realistic pointer of what to expect in a few years ...Although I am hoping that the name Cray will be on as many laptops as Dell
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That is insane, why don't I ever have the cash to mess about like that
I have toyed with the idea of a SSD drive I just might get one, not 26 lolNew PV club member. 3.99kW system. Solar Edge with 14 x 285W JA Solar panels. 55° West from south and 35° pitch.0 -
one of our suppliers recon the put this in (or some of it - as in the processor cards for the cabinets). The AC noise in the room apparently is horrific. The processors can be segmented or grouped together to off to run totally non related tasks or one task. It runs under linux.0
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one of our suppliers recon the put this in (or some of it - as in the processor cards for the cabinets). The AC noise in the room apparently is horrific. The processors can be segmented or grouped together to off to run totally non related tasks or one task. It runs under linux.
How do you mean by AC noise?:idea:0 -
Quantum computing or not this is a good example of the PC you could get for the price of a mac!0
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How do you mean by AC noise?
Not power, but Air Conditioning and fans. Apparenly the space taken up by the units shown is only a 'small corner' of the computing systems room. The room is said to be much bigger than a football pitch. The rest of the room contains other systems that is used by other faculties.
I think there must be quite a bit of traffic/processor overhead if one was to task a process across all these cores? of one core fails it shuts down and that job is continued elseware
I'm sure thye told me that the card held 20g of ram each, but your link says 2g. All that these people did was to buy the cards and plug them in. They recon the main purpose of the device was moddeling of shapes/designs. They also removed some old cards which were about half the processing power and much les memory. The way they put it souded like upgrading the boards to double the speed was expensive and possibly a bit of an overkill, however they are not the end user and they also have limited tech ability.0 -
Anti-virus? Or is it immune? :rotfl:0
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