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PostPosted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 10:05 pm    Post subject: Migratory Coconuts! Reply with quote

Ive done the math and if Migratory Coconuts suffers a total power loss in the next 5 hours and I'm able to do a few strategic upgrades I can confidently pass MC in something just under a century.

*breaking out his voodoo doll and prepares.*
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 3:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

hahahaha
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 11:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Perhaps this will assist you
http://www.internetnews.com/ent-news/article.php/3432221
IBM's Blue Gene Supercomputer is For Sale
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 12:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I could pass Migatory Coconuts in azbout 1 million years if they stop shrubbing now.

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PostPosted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 1:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sir Papa Smurph wrote:
Perhaps this will assist you
http://www.internetnews.com/ent-news/article.php/3432221
IBM's Blue Gene Supercomputer is For Sale
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I bid $10.00 US
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 5:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'll take a rack, I have a whole shed out back that is only being used for storage. (Wired with 220v)
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 6:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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I bid $10.00 US

Obviously someone can't read...
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Starting price for the supercomputer is $1.5 million.

They aren't selling a specific computer, it's not like Deep Blue that was one specific machine. Blue Gene/L is a type of computer, and there are several already out there. The point of the article is that they're selling them commercially now.

They do kick butt though. The SDSC has 3 BG/L racks.
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 7:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

JerWA wrote:
mohrorless wrote:
I bid $10.00 US

Obviously someone can't read...


I can read quite fine thank you. It was a starting bid. I'm hoping they are willing to negotiate. Rolling Eyes Maybe I can low ball them. Wink
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 7:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I outbid Mohorless with 3 used paperclips.

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PostPosted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 9:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I see the rabbit's bid and raise with a used tissue!
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 2:09 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'll raise you 1 un-used lottery ticket, could be worth £5,000,000, when it's drawn.



Just a mo, that was last night. Dang.



I'll bid one used lottery ticket, guaranteed non-winner.

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PostPosted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 8:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'll bid a snowball.
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 8:23 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

JerWA wrote:
They do kick butt though. The SDSC has 3 BG/L racks.



what's the processors and OS.... they may even be boinc compatible...


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PostPosted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 1:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Actually, their goal with BlueGene/L was to show that you could make a super computer using cheap, less power consuming CPUs, if you arrayed them (and I'd say they succeeded considering they hold spot #1 and #2 on the Top500 super computer chart). They're Intel chips, and not even uber ones or anything, there's just lots of them. It uses PowerPC 440 cores, and can support up to 65,536 dual-processor nodes.

The setup at the SDSC has 3 racks (3,072 nodes) for 6,144 PowerPC 440 CPUs (17.2 Teraflops), 1,536 GB of RAM, and 25 Terabytes of disk storage. I did some loose calculations on what such a system could do on BOINC for 24 hours, and it came out to somewhere around a million credits.

You'd have to arrange for it in advance though, with the project(s) I mean. The per-cpu quota should be fine (allowing for over 300,000 WUs a day, while it would only need about 54,000), but the project servers probably wouldn't handle the burst traffic. You'd either have to set the client up with a custom delay, to stagger when WUs were sent and received, or have the project just send them to you (i.e. just dump 50,000 WUs directly to the server with FTP). A lot of projects also couldn't produce that much work at once, so you'd need to spread the joy around a bit.

It'd still be pretty danged cool, smacking out a million credit day. Your BOINCstats graph would never be the same. Twisted Evil
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Edit: Oh yeah, you can find info on the SDSC here: http://www.sdsc.edu/resources/CompStorage.html and BlueGene/L here: http://www.research.ibm.com/bluegene/
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 2:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

JerWA wrote:
They're Intel chips, and not even uber ones or anything, there's just lots of them. It uses PowerPC 440 cores, and can support up to 65,536 dual-processor nodes.


If they're PowerPC 440's they're not Intel chips, are they?
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 4:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Sorry, I meant IBM haha. BlueGene/L is IBMs baby, as was Deep Blue. Good catch on the slip of the fingers.
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