wired wrote:By almost any standard, the new computer will be staggering. It will have 1.6 million processing cores, 1.6 petabytes of memory, 96 racks and 98,304 computing nodes. Yet, the new computer will have a much smaller footprint at 3,400 square feet than the current fastest computer's 5,200 square feet. And it will be much more energy efficient than its predecessors, only drawing 6 megawatts of power a year. That's about how much energy 500 American homes use in the same period.
Along these lines, there is a national lab that will give you fee access to a super computer -- as long as you share any data that you crunch on it.
When Sequoia does go online, it's going to be very interesting...
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Good choice putting $4,000 rims on your 1990 Honda Civic. That's like Betty White going out and getting her tits done.
