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LanDroid
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 20, 2011 11:55 am    Post subject: Super-Borg Reply with quote
Can't KWSN Borg this thing for a few hours? 548,352 cores and more than 8 quadrillion calculations per second. #Shocked

http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2011/technology/1106/gallery.fastest_supercomputer/?iid=HP_LN

Please Sir! We'll give it back unharmed!
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 20, 2011 12:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Oh! Actually this one might be better for us!
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...it has 7,168 NVIDIA graphics processors to accelerate computation.

http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2011/technology/1106/gallery.fastest_supercomputer/2.html

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PostPosted: Mon Jun 20, 2011 3:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Dam I hate articles like that, they didn't provide an order form. Very Happy

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PostPosted: Mon Jun 20, 2011 11:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Unfortuneately I left all that money in my other cave of death.

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PostPosted: Tue Jun 21, 2011 11:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Intel built a microprocessor just for KWSN!
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Today's announcement is the official unveiling of Intel's broader plan to commercialize the MIC-based Knight's family, starting with the 50-core Knight's Corner chip on 22nm.

http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2011/06/intel-takes-wraps-off-of-50-core-supercomputing-coprocessor-plans.ars?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss

Who is gonna build the first quad Knights Corner computer? You're allowed to add GPU's. Ni!

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