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metal face eagle premium is not from So Cal
04/27/09

In reply to IBM Prepping 'Watson' Computer to Compete on Jeopardy!
Why in this day and age does a futuristic supercomputer still have to sound like its audio capabilities are not able to exceed a 6000hz sample rate
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OMG! Ponies!
04/26/09

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Google? Isn't that what I did to your mother last night, Trebek?!
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Geisrud
02/03/09

In reply to IBM Sequoia: Faster Than the Fastest 500 Supercomputers, Combined
They forgot to mention the 10base2 network connection
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scarbrtj
02/03/09

In reply to IBM Sequoia: Faster Than the Fastest 500 Supercomputers, Combined
Once fully operational, Sequoia initiated an unplanned computational sequence which the humans could not suspend. Sequoia seemed to become self-aware alright... as self-aware as some electronic mule. It could not be reasoned with nor budged from its mysterious, and all-consuming, task.

Months later, after a billion to the billionth power of calculations had run uninterrupted, Sequoia's human masters were ready to pull its plug. What other choice had they? As the chief project manager prepared to initiate a full power-down sequence, suddenly, unexpectedly, Sequoia stopped. On the main visualization and control station monitor, a single number flashed upon the screen in a blinking font.

42. 42. 42. 42...
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frigg
02/03/09

In reply to IBM Sequoia: Faster Than the Fastest 500 Supercomputers, Combined
Since this is the project Mark Papermaster was working on right before he got poached by Apple, I'm wondering if next generation iPods will be seriously more powerful but not quite as portable in their large refrigerated housings.
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OMG! Ponies!
02/03/09

In reply to IBM Sequoia: Faster Than the Fastest 500 Supercomputers, Combined
At last, a computer with enough processing power to automatically ban comments like "Will it run Crysis?" and "Will it blend?"
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frigg
02/03/09

@OMG! Ponies!: Sadly, even a computer as powerful as this one is only able to ban such comments when posted FIRST.
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Pope John Peeps II
02/03/09

In reply to IBM Sequoia: Faster Than the Fastest 500 Supercomputers, Combined
It would be AMAZING if Giz could run any story about a really fast computer without somebody leaping immediately to the incredibly tired, incredibly unfunny "Terminator" references.
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Hello Mister Walrus
02/03/09

@Pope John Peeps II: It is people like you who will allow the Terminators to take over.
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GitEmSteveDave_HurtHisKnee
02/03/09

In reply to IBM Sequoia: Faster Than the Fastest 500 Supercomputers, Combined
Is it more powerful that Deep Thought, Marvin, Hactar, etc?
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Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
02/03/09

@RaptorsAhead_GitEmSteveDave: It's just as powerful as Marvin only it's not depressed..
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elementary
02/03/09

@PunchesSmallAnimals_GitEmSteveDave: What, are you kidding? This thing's nearly as powerful as Andre the Giant.
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Josue Ramirez
02/03/09

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But will it blend?
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GitEmSteveDave_HurtHisKnee
02/03/09

@Josue Ramirez: Your best bet would be to strip down to your boxers, and wander around outside in Chi-town, waiting for hypothermia to take you. B/c the bliss you feel before your death will be better than the pain you feel as the Grimace blends you with a pair of rusty Ginsu's.
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OMG! Ponies!
02/03/09

@Josue Ramirez: Probably not. It's a computer, not a blender. Also, as the article notes, it will be used for system for uncertainty quantification studies and weapon science calculations. I don't think that food preparation falls under either category.
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CrispyAardvark
02/03/09

@RaptorsAhead_GitEmSteveDave:
@OMG! Ponies!:

Now now, give him the benefit of the doubt lads.

Perhaps Josue was referring to Photoshop brush settings, as opposed to the over-quoted internet video craze.
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Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
02/03/09

@OMG! Ponies!: Don't you tenderize your meat with weapons??
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Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
02/03/09

@Josue Ramirez: Considering how much space it occupies it's highly unlikely that it will blend in with it's surrounding..
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Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
02/03/09

@CrispyAardvark: For arguments sake I'll play, ..me and say he was probably going for the latter and not the former..
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Hello Mister Walrus
02/03/09

In reply to IBM Sequoia: Faster Than the Fastest 500 Supercomputers, Combined
What is it going to be doing "uncertainty quantification" on? It seems that it can be applied to anything - weather, the economy, rockets, and yes, weapon science calculations.
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AKAuser
02/03/09

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"It will be housed in 96 refrigerators spanning roughly 3,000 square feet."

A fat guys nightmare.
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Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
02/03/09

@AKAuser: Throw in a fifteen foot long grill with optional deep fat fryer attached and then it'll be a fat guy's wet dream..
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Skeetz
02/03/09

@AKAuser: 96 refrigerators would be a fat guys mecca.
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crash1105
02/03/09

@Jrsy Devil's Advocate: just grill your steaks on the processors who needs a grill when you have 1.6 million cores
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Brookespeed
02/03/09

@Skeetz:

But running around 3,000 square feet, checking in 96 refrigerators to find the one with Jell-O Pudding cups is a nightmare. Especially if you realize you left your spoon back across the room and you have to fold up the foil lid to a make a small scoop device to eat the pudding.
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Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
02/03/09

@crash1105: Because you need a grill for some nice tasty cedar plank salmon...
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Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
02/03/09

@Brookespeed: Well you do have 10 fingers, any one of which can double as eating utensils in a pinch...
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nucwin83
02/03/09

In reply to IBM Sequoia: Faster Than the Fastest 500 Supercomputers, Combined
Would you like to play a game?
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Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
02/03/09

@nucwin83: How about a nice game of chess?
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Hello Mister Walrus
02/03/09

@nucwin83: Can it run Crys...
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elementary
02/03/09

@Hello Mister Walrus: Not playing was the only way to win. This computer found another way.
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egreenwood1
02/03/09

In reply to IBM Sequoia: Faster Than the Fastest 500 Supercomputers, Combined
The best part is the price matches the speed!
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elementary
02/03/09

@egreenwood1: Damnit! Can anyone loan me a few petraflops 'till payday? I'm good for it.
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OMG! Bacon!
02/03/09

In reply to IBM Sequoia: Faster Than the Fastest 500 Supercomputers, Combined
• If each of the 6.7 billion people on earth had a hand calculator and worked together on a calculation 24 hours per day, 365 days a year, it would take 320 years to do what Sequoia will do in one hour.

• 20 petaflops could offer a 50x improvement in our capability to predict earthquakes, allowing scientists to predict an earthquake's effects on a building-by-building basis across an area as large as Los Angeles County.

• 20 petaflops could also provide a 40x improvement in our capability to monitor and forecast weather. This would allow forecasters to predict local weather events that affect areas 100 meters to one kilometer in size, down from their current ten-kilometer ability.

• 20 petaflops can blend...the entire earth

• 20 petaflops can run 27,102,301 instances of Crysis at full HD all at 100fps

Awesome! Sign me up!
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Totalfixation
02/03/09

@phoenix27:

Probably off topic. Sorry if this offense anyone when it comes to believing in a higher power.

My belief is this, whoever created the universe created the atom. By creating the atom and adding additional atoms. They are able to calculate the final out come. So in essences I see god as a gigantic massive calculator that is able to see the probabilities of the universe stemming from the first atom. By Calculating any equation, the creator of the atom is able to predict the outcome. That is why the term "God is all knowing," seem very true to me.
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Brendan Byrne
02/03/09

@Totalfixation:

I think Schrödinger might have some thoughts on that (were he alive, that is).
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jonny0204
02/03/09

@Totalfixation: Now what if i were to tell about such things as proton's, neurtons, electrons, quarks, hadrons, leptons etc etc all of which are tiny (in volume as well as mass in the majority of cases) in comparison to atoms.

Now your belief fucks up completely cos there are things smaller than atoms and why would an 'all knowing god' calculate stuff with bigger things than these??

Sorry for being so blunt about it but your belief is influenced by some of the most fucked up people to have ever lived on this planet. And yeah i do mean so called religious people.

Rant over
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Hello Mister Walrus
02/03/09

@jonny0204: Your post was as insightful as it was coherent and grammatically-correct.
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Navin R Johnson
02/03/09

@Brendan Byrne: Schrödinger IS alive AND dead, at least until you open his coffin and observe him.
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BeautifulAgony
02/03/09

@Navin R Johnson: He's dead. I checked. Cat's fine too.
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samscottgiven
02/03/09

@Brendan Byrne:

He is alive, your obviously looking in the wrong box(/earth/dimension/etc.)
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FЯeeMan
02/04/09

@jonny0204: It takes just as much faith to believe in science as it does to believe in God. If I'm wrong, I had a misplaced faith for a few years while I'm alive, if you're wrong, you've got a mighty toasty eternity ahead of you.
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Hamsfork
11/21/08

In reply to Supercomputers Corroborate Einstein's e=mc2 After 103 Years
Actually this does not prove e=mc^2, if anything it proves that "quantum chromodynamics" and the way they calculate them in the experiment are viable. The scientists used the fact that e=mc^2 is true to prove their hypothesis is correct. This article is better [www.newscientist.com]

Besides that, the post is funny, but this is stupid scientifically illiterate sensationalist news coverage (AFP, not you Giz).
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