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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, April 16 2012 @ 11:35 AM EDT |
Seymour Cray : we are not worthy.
I saw a Cray 1 on a comp studies (yes, no sci here folks) school trip to the Met
Office in the UK
Now that's what a computer is supposed to look like.
iPad? Pah! Give me pipes and lights and funky shapes and viewing panels.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, April 16 2012 @ 11:49 AM EDT |
MS excells that sorta thing :)
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- BSOD - Authored by: mcinsand on Monday, April 16 2012 @ 12:52 PM EDT
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, April 16 2012 @ 01:27 PM EDT |
Bletchley Park had the first programmable computers to read WWII mail, but no
one knew about it for years and years and years.
The NSA has the most-est, bigg-est, and best-est *acres* of super computers
anywhere. Reading and indexing ALL of our voice, broadcast, and email is a
pretty big job, even if they have google pre-process most of it.
I suspect that a large percentage of the IBM Blue Gene product line moves by
truck from Rochester MN to somewhere in Maryland each month, and New Mexico gets
just enough to keep our attention on the public top 500 list.
An interesting project for for license plate spotters (Boy Scout Troops?) would
be to track trucks in order to guess at national compute capacity growth per
month, in truck loads of BG cabinets
(this post isn't really anonymous where it counts :- )
https://www.eff.org/issues/nsa-spying
http://www.bletchleypark.org.uk/content/hist/history.rhtm
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, April 16 2012 @ 04:21 PM EDT |
The different colours of wire represent different lengths for timing purposes. I
was in a large warehouse, many moons ago, where lease computers that had been
superseded but still had lease left were stored. In the middle was the bones of
a Cray-1. Looked sad.
Tufty
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, April 16 2012 @ 06:09 PM EDT |
Nr.10 from the linked story:
> Meanwhile, DARPA, recognizing that current silicon technology
> might not even be capable of exaflops, has summoned researchers
> to reinvent computing.
I'm tempted to ask, But will it blend?[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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