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IBM explores 67.1m-core computer for running entire Internet

theregister.co.uk — A research paper shows that IBM is working on a computing system capable "of hosting the entire internet as an application." This mega system relies on a re-tooled version of IBM's Blue Gene supercomputers to create a theoretical mega-system of 67.1m cores, 32PB of memory, and an IO output of 10.4Pb/s.

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  • BlindingDawn, on 02/06/2008, -2/+494Maybe Crysis will run on this.
    • mcgarry83, on 02/06/2008, -3/+107But not at full res of course
      • xlneoMAXlx, on 02/06/2008, -7/+2I lol'd... But buried, these are only the requirements. Recommended specs are slightly higher.
    • bonds, on 02/06/2008, -2/+80They forgot to mention that the display adapter is an ATI Rage 128
    • eH9116, on 02/06/2008, -1/+29Well played.
    • MacSuxWindozSux, on 02/06/2008, -42/+5I'm sure a computer like that could run Crysis with full software DX10 emulation, double max settings, at a frame rate in the tens of thousands.
      • TopherT, on 02/06/2008, -2/+42oh, you misunderstood, the comment about crysis was actually a joke.
      • MacSuxWindozSux, on 02/06/2008, -28/+4Oh I understood. But the joke got me thinking about it.
      • jgtg32a, on 02/06/2008, -2/+2A computer like that could preprocess every action and do a look up when needed.
      • flowingsphere, on 02/06/2008, -0/+2MacSuxWindozSux is actually a lesser model of the IBM machine that doesn't have the humor module built in yet.
      • Andyschism, on 02/06/2008, -0/+5Looks like he didnt come preinstalled with humor drivers. Ahhh Linux.
    • ChiGGz, on 02/06/2008, -0/+60Better start making those "My other computer is a 67.1m-core IBM megasystem" stickers.
      • itsthebrod, on 02/06/2008, -0/+4And while that's being done, the stockpile of condoms can get thrown away. They certainly won't be needed anymore.
      • troye, on 02/06/2008, -0/+11.) "... start making those "My other computer is a 67.1m-core IBM megasystem" stickers."
        2.) ?
        3.) Profit!
    • darkciti2, on 02/06/2008, -23/+8This is no surprise. IBM is a government research corporation and our government has had this technology for years (if not decades).
      Why do you think the government doesn't outlaw PGP ? The NSA has been able to break that for years now.

      We [consumers] are just getting the technology that the US government had about 10 years ago. Google Maps? The CIA had it in the 80's under the Regan "Satellite Wars [intentionally not mentioned by name]" program. Intel? A joint corporation that was created research universities and the US intelligence community.

      If you think the government doesn't have technology that is 10x more advanced than what we have today, you are kidding yourself.

      My advice to you: Keep your nose clean, don't lie, cheat or steal, and you may be able to work for one of these advanced agencies some day; and no, I'm not some "black ops" recruiter.
      • TopherT, on 02/06/2008, -0/+8They'd have to be paying AMD too don't you think?
      • mrsteveman1, on 02/06/2008, -0/+12wow. just.......wow
      • bonds, on 02/06/2008, -0/+9Wait a minute...are you some "black ops" recruiter?
        • CCB0x45, on 02/06/2008, -0/+9He says no... but it may be a test. If i've learned anything from the recruit, everything is a test!
        • DSGalvin, on 02/06/2008, -0/+1AHHHHRGH!!! Im Al Pacino and im yellling!! AAAHHHH!
      • goblindegook, on 02/06/2008, -0/+12Wow, just as I was thinking it was safe to take off my tinfoil hat.
      • DSGalvin, on 02/06/2008, -0/+11lol what are you, like 13?
      • debuggercll, on 02/06/2008, -0/+4The government kidnapped me and implanted radio dishes in my teeth. When will we see this kind of technology hitting the streets? I would love to get the porn channel that I receive with my molar to be unscrambled.
      • munkyxtc, on 02/06/2008, -0/+4Not sure why, but you reminded me of this:

        http://munkyxtc.com/digg/timetravel.jpg

      • entropolis, on 02/06/2008, -0/+0
        Dude, the Wonder Woman belt that's holding on your tin foil hat is too tight.
      • smacksaw, on 02/06/2008, -0/+1Umm...yeah. As an IT professional, I contracted for the gov't for several years. Just about every agency you can think of, especially military and defence contractors. I ended up with top secret clearance to do my job on-site. I've signed more secrecy and NDAs than I will ever remember (and I make it a point to purposely forget a lot of what I've seen), and let me assure you that this stuff doesn't exist.

        Let me explain something. If the gov't is hiring people and using their best experts to solve a problem and all of their ***** is old, outmoded/outdated, proprietary, the people don't know how to use it, etc. WHY ARE THEY NOT USING THESE SUPER-SYSTEMS?

        Seriously. If they could just call someone, flip a switch, etc, they wouldn't bother with a schmo like me. I have seen things that are serious issues for people and agencies go unresolved. Maybe you have higher clearance than me. Maybe you've seen these things. But I am personally shocked how much OLD technology our gov't has because it's proven and reliable, fits a mandated spec, is legislated in 1984 to be used and gets implemented in 2004, etc. The Z80s and 8088s running...ah, forget it.

        Look. Either you have no idea what you're talking about, or like me you've seen some *****. If you've seen something that I haven't seen, feel free to say so. There's no way I could see everything. But I've seen a pretty good representative example and I've never seen anything like that.
    • erkokite, on 02/06/2008, -0/+23No, it's been established that Crysis requires no less than a monolith from outer space.
    • Frnnkdlxx, on 02/06/2008, -9/+1Sorry to be a spoilsport,but I don't trust IBM to be running or planning on running anything of this sort. This is the crooked corporation that created the first computer during ww2 to document Jews.

      But hey, that's just me.
      • KevenM, on 02/06/2008, -3/+3...just you being ignorant and misinformed?
    • mal1964, on 02/06/2008, -0/+4We haven’t ideated that yet!
    • tybris, on 02/06/2008, -0/+3No, too much latency.
    • chingy1788, on 02/06/2008, -2/+1Actually the beast is Assassin's creed now
      its minimum requirements are similar to Crysis's recommended
      and IGN didn't even give it a 9+
    • ubergeek09, on 02/06/2008, -1/+1It runs on my computer high settings, on 1680 x 1050, and my computer is under $2k.
  • BuzzDiggity, on 02/06/2008, -6/+27Sounds like the type of computer Dr. Evil would covet.... Crazy stuff...
  • FirstDigg, on 02/06/2008, -7/+39You know I've been trying to get into investing for a while now. Perhaps now might be a good time to start, and get some IBM stock. =]
    • ordig, on 02/06/2008, -14/+3why? how would they make money off this?
      • muniak, on 02/06/2008, -0/+13Oh... you know, they might come up with some ideas when they can run the entire internet from one location.
        • dinostabOMG, on 02/06/2008, -0/+23Just think of how many facebook pokes they could execute per second.
        • jmpeagle, on 02/06/2008, -1/+5no government would allow such a centralization (especially the U.S.)...it would be too vulnerable.
        • mrsteveman1, on 02/06/2008, -1/+4Yes, lets take an entire distributed network and run it from one place on one system.
        • lrdntwnd, on 02/06/2008, -0/+7Did you RTFA!? This isn't about putting the whole internet on one machine. This is about getting companies like Google, Microsoft, etc. to move from the cluster to a supercomputer based on Blue Gene. It would certainly be possible for a fully deployed Blue Gene system to run quite a lot of the internet, but that's not the point of this research. The point is to see if it would be possible for Blue Gene to run the applications that are necessary for most web server deployments. Right now, the platform isn't generally used for that. It's used for one specific set of computations spread over the entire system. It doesn't generally isolate nodes for running specific apps which would be necessary for deploying web services on a supercomputer of this type. One of the advantages that clusters have is that they are separate machines that are designed for web serving. The major advantage of the supercomputer is that it's easy to add another thousand nodes by just dropping in another blade or adding an extra rack onto the system. So, before you go complaining about running "an entire distributed network ... from one place on one system," RTFA!
          • muniak, on 02/07/2008, -0/+1I didn't say they WOULD put it all on one machine, I said that they might come up with some ideas on how to make money when they CAN.
    • CSharpSauce, on 02/06/2008, -1/+4There are far more profitable opportunities out there for someone just starting out.
    • mattsidesinger, on 02/06/2008, -0/+1You obviously have never used DB2, WebSphere Commerce, or any other IBM product.
    • blackmage439, on 02/06/2008, -0/+4I was upset when I heard IBM sold off their ThinkPad manufacturing to Lenovo. However, this is where IBM is fantastic, and this is where they shine.

      Mainframes are sex-ay.
  • anderzole, on 02/06/2008, -12/+2say what now?
  • GIMAD2008, on 02/06/2008, -19/+7I want to play Doom on it. (LOL)
  • LordSeth, on 02/06/2008, -16/+148But is it Vista Capable?
    • akkibaba, on 02/06/2008, -9/+108There's a chance that it might run Vista, but obviously you're going to have to install more RAM.
      • ConceptJunkie, on 02/06/2008, -0/+5I hear Gates said "32 petabytes ought to be enough for everyone".
    • elfprince13, on 02/06/2008, -4/+21as if IBM would use x86 processors!
    • MioTheGreat, on 02/06/2008, -2/+25Yes, but you can forget about watching Blu-Ray disks on it without downsampling.
      • alexforcefive, on 02/06/2008, -0/+17Nothing to do with the computer spec of course, the DRM just likes to ***** with people
    • mcgarry83, on 02/06/2008, -3/+30funny how my laptop only has 512 and an old Athlon XP, and Compiz-fusion works amazing. What the hell happened Microsoft? Oh well, the bigger they are...
      • MacSuxWindozSux, on 02/06/2008, -1/+18Linux doesn't try to figure out what you usually do at various times of the week and preload those programs into ram you aren't using.
        • mrsteveman1, on 02/06/2008, -2/+11KDE can do that.....srsly
          • MioTheGreat, on 02/06/2008, -0/+1AFAIK, it does not. There's a 'preload' package out for Linux, however, that does the same thing.
      • TechCF, on 02/06/2008, -0/+1Well, the Linux community is much bigger. And by the way IBM. Thanks a lot for the great free EVMS system!
        • damentz, on 02/06/2008, -0/+1Somebody has been in league with the dark tipper I see.
    • bxblox, on 02/06/2008, -1/+3Yes, but not with aero enabled
    • thushan, on 02/06/2008, -0/+3It'll run Vista, but only in Aero Basic mode;-) My prediction is the WEI would be ~ 1.2 for this thing...
    • sketec, on 02/06/2008, -0/+2it might explode, you know, the vista curse and all. just like bill planned it. spewing windows 7 through the interwebs. only the linux firewall is imune!
  • notjustmii, on 02/06/2008, -2/+25I want one in my house.
    • solarwind24, on 02/06/2008, -0/+26There goes your energy bill.
    • handheldchimp, on 02/06/2008, -0/+30Dude, your house would probably fit inside of the computer itself.
    • acdcfanbill, on 02/06/2008, -0/+12Me too, I'm tired of waiting for stupid pages to load.
    • skyshock1, on 02/06/2008, -0/+10If you're running XP, you probably are already a part of something comperable - the Storm Bot Net.
    • griz, on 02/06/2008, -0/+4I want one AS a house.
  • XNihil0Zer0, on 02/06/2008, -1/+19Wow, I've heard estimates that the human brain can process 10^16 bps. Now all we need is a crack team of programmers that can program it into my new best friend.
    • ogore, on 02/06/2008, -10/+2except our brain doesn't use bits
      • MxM111, on 02/06/2008, -0/+5Ehm? It uses 0 and 1, or excited/non-excited states of neurons, or in other words ... gasp... bits!
    • EXreaction, on 02/06/2008, -1/+7Maybe theoretically, but most people have a hard enough time with simple multiplication. Yay calculator!
      • Methodius, on 02/06/2008, -1/+5I'm going to go out on a limb here (I haven't actually studied this) and guess that the human brain probably doesn't do its calculations in base 10, not to mention that none of your routine calculations (catching a ball) are performed consciously. If program for running the internet was instinctive to humans, I have little doubt the human brain would be up to the task.

        P.S.: shouldn't the digg spellchecker be able to cope with a lower-case "internet"?
        • theymos, on 02/06/2008, -3/+1It's a proper noun. Do you want the spell check to lie to you?
          • Methodius, on 02/06/2008, -0/+3I want the spell check to tell me what I want to hear.
        • BigBallistix, on 02/06/2008, -0/+1The brain throws out 99% of the information it recieves, like that wall is white, the friction I feel on my arm is from swinging my arms when I walk etc'... If you had a cybernetic brain and only fed it relative information, perhaps along with a a few growth hormones, then it would be a lot easier and cheaper to run then a freon-cooled obelisk. You could run it for a week on a happy meal...
    • brad016, on 02/06/2008, -3/+1Ya, we would all like a friend whom ha abrain we could play crysis on, but it won't happen untill the iPhone has 3G!
      • damentz, on 02/06/2008, -0/+4You need to update the cerebral cortex to unlock the brain frequency multipliers that allow you to overclock your friend effectively.
  • masterofthebus, on 02/06/2008, -15/+0now we can play chess against a good oponent!
  • MarkusGarvey, on 02/06/2008, -4/+54it's logo could be a big Bullseye.
    • megaton, on 02/06/2008, -2/+8I got it. And I love it.

      One of the most subtly brilliant jokes I've heard in months! ^_^
    • xaxxon, on 02/06/2008, -1/+10I didn't get it. Help?
      • mgrucker, on 02/06/2008, -1/+20The Internet is a distributed system. You would have to take out a ***** (that's the technical term) of computers to harm the Internet as a whole. This, on the other hand, is a single system meaning a single point of failure.
      • griz, on 02/06/2008, -0/+6Internet's down again...***** tripped over the plug.
    • talonstriker, on 02/06/2008, -0/+4only if IBM wants to be sued by Target
  • Lane, on 02/06/2008, -0/+46Well so much for that "the internet is too big to be filtered" logic....
    • skyshock1, on 02/06/2008, -0/+6I think Google already proved this back in '97.
    • Lane, on 02/06/2008, -1/+1Google only finds information when you ask it to search for specific data. I'm talking about a full scale MGS2 Arsenal Gear type filtering going on!!!!!
  • vroom101, on 02/06/2008, -0/+16Here's the paper...

    "Project Kittyhawk: Building a Global-Scale Computer, Blue Gene/P as a Generic Computing Platform"
    By Jonathan Appavoo, Volkmar Uhlig, and Amos Waterland
    IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York

    Link: http://weather.ou.edu/~apw/projects/kittyhawk/kitt ... ( weather.ou.edu/~apw/projects/kittyhawk/kittyhawk.pdf )
    • defectDS, on 02/06/2008, -9/+3Kitty... hawk?

      *snickersnicker makes an lolcat*
      • vroom101, on 02/06/2008, -0/+3Big Blue Gene/P is not amused . . . . . . . . . . . we've a core reserved just for you.
  • noupsell, on 02/06/2008, -0/+14http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064177/
  • Emused, on 02/06/2008, -10/+8In foreign tech support accent " Yes, yes, but have you tried rebooting? Yes wait for the Planet On Self Test, it comes first. Good- bye"
  • bigboy101011, on 02/06/2008, -0/+108can anyone say skynet?
    • XBSHX, on 02/06/2008, -0/+17I always knew it would be IBM who created it... those bastards!!
    • dawnraid101, on 02/06/2008, -10/+4can anyone say an old joke thats been used a million times???
      • Zaneris, on 02/06/2008, -0/+3It's still valid until it actually happens.
      • BigBallistix, on 02/06/2008, -0/+2Sure. Why did the chicken cross the road? Because he a was an cyborg commanded to do what the internet told him was the most logical course of action, despite it being the i95.
    • 1randomguy08, on 02/06/2008, -1/+4Matrix?
    • Sniper4790, on 02/06/2008, -2/+0but skynet has no core, but with this "computer" it can be destroyed!!
    • LuckyASN, on 02/06/2008, -0/+3Buried as inaccurate, skynet will not take over the world. Trapper keeper will.
  • TheGroje, on 02/06/2008, -4/+72... and a red ring of death approximately 80 meters in diameter...
    • addysonclark, on 02/06/2008, -5/+2Yes, because IBM would choose to host this in a xbox 360 case.
      • TechCF, on 02/06/2008, -0/+7You have obviously not heard of HAL
        • addysonclark, on 02/06/2008, -1/+1HAL was not a ring. More of a circle.
  • acrodev, on 02/06/2008, -2/+27Finally we'll be able to study the world's porn in a safe environment.
    • vondrak, on 02/06/2008, -1/+55all the worlds internet porn in one hidden folder
      • FatLoser, on 02/06/2008, -1/+18and all your secret shemale porns in another, even more secret folder
    • faRawaY07, on 02/06/2008, -1/+0I will dl and have a look!
  • airwalkery2k, on 02/06/2008, -18/+3Yes, let's put the internet on one computer. I've always wanted to trust our democratic form of communication to one corporation. It's just too risky allowing anybody to post what they want. I'd much rather prefer that somebody watch over it and regulate what we can read. Then they can arrest anybody posting or observing thought crimes! All hail the internet overlord!
    • muniak, on 02/06/2008, -1/+7I for one, welcome our new internet overlords.
      • greeniemeani, on 02/06/2008, -1/+5Your doing it wrong. Either include both commas or none at all.
  • RegalGSX, on 02/06/2008, -13/+3In 100 years that power will be in your cell phone. Or maybe we'll have fingernail phones by then. I just hope I don't accidently give myself a wet willy when it's raining.
    • darkciti2, on 02/06/2008, -0/+10Don't be absurd. Your view of the future is clearly insane.

      It won't be called a "wet willy" in 100 years.
    • ogore, on 02/06/2008, -0/+1Why do you need a fingernail phone to do that?
  • deaconyermouf, on 02/06/2008, -2/+63I want to be the first to kick the plug out of the socket
    • tendonut, on 02/06/2008, -1/+1I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that
  • RuthlessPirate, on 02/06/2008, -2/+49This is the thing that is going to start the Machine Revolution. I, for one, welcome our Internet overlords.
    • Tyr86, on 02/06/2008, -2/+5Thanks for the cookie cutter meme.
      • goodluck4287, on 02/06/2008, -1/+0Ah...yes. Just what I need. M$ knowing that I pirated Office before I even download the torrent.
  • wingnut21, on 02/06/2008, -2/+39Centralized != Internet.
    • Bilabrin, on 02/06/2008, -0/+2Yeah, I know this comment doeasn't really add but those were my thoughts exactly. All the DHS needs to control the internet is centralization. I'm not against the DHS per se but I really don't think centralizing the Internet is a great idea.

      We'd really only be outsourcing it to other countries anyway in the event that it was controlled. Unless we get a world government.
  • hadak, on 02/06/2008, -12/+4Sure, it's big...but will it run vista?
    • hadak, on 02/07/2008, -0/+1Oh sure, digg me down because i speak the truth.
  • JavertHolmes, on 02/06/2008, -2/+54How exactly are all the tubes going to fit into the I/O port of one computer case?
  • Ascus, on 02/06/2008, -2/+48Wasn't the entire design of the internet so it would not be run on a single compute, but a "World Wide Web" of computer heavily, redundantly connected? Sounds like IBM can build great machines but has not a clue how to use them correctly.
    • darkciti2, on 02/06/2008, -2/+4In 1995 (or maybe 1996) Intel and Oracle [correctly] noted that personal computers were just going to be clients and that applications were going to be served "online". At the same time, Microsoft was selling encyclopedia "Encarta" on a CD-Rom and trying to convince people to stuff a world of information on their local computer.

      In retrospect, I'm starting to think that Microsoft might have had the better idea - I don't trust centralized information that isn't massively distributable [on multiple media formats ([paper/print, cdrom, etc]).
      • bxblox, on 02/06/2008, -0/+4Encarta used to be pretty useful when it took 10 minutes for each page to load online.
    • PyroKittens, on 02/06/2008, -2/+6Yeah, I am definately not down for a centralized internet. The main thing I worry about is the freedom of the press. The internet is rapidly becoming the way people get information, put that all in one spot, and not only would it be a target, but sooooooo easily monitored.
    • lrdntwnd, on 02/06/2008, -0/+14God damn, people. RTFA! It's about using a Blue Gene supercomputer to serve websites and webapps in the way that companies like Google and Microsoft use clusters right now. It's not really about putting the whole internet on one machine!
      • ilikechaitea, on 02/06/2008, -1/+2ahhhh....really? I was like, why put the whole internet on one pc?? Yeah, that makes more sense.
        In fact there was an article somewhere a few weeks ago about how server farms were using way to much power..SO...
        this being a super computer, it would obviously use loads of power right, but essentially this is a green solution to the server farm issue...right?
    • Gizza, on 02/06/2008, -0/+3Well if they did actually do this, and it did actually contain the entire internet, the rest of the net wouldn't disappear. This would just basically be a big mirror of the entire net. No more Digg Effect.
  • zmjone2992, on 02/06/2008, -0/+29We are going to call the computer Skynet
  • bitmanx, on 02/06/2008, -0/+15Single point of failure sounds great, start over in the UK first..
  • danielplainview, on 02/06/2008, -2/+24O ya, I rember this computer, Neo got killed by it at the end of the trilogy
  • zoomsixx, on 02/06/2008, -5/+2Sounds like the WWW 2 that the government has been trying to hash out.
  • PFCWilliams, on 02/06/2008, -8/+3Why is there a tech story on Digg? I thought tech stories were banned on Digg by its users.
  • ChinezePanda, on 02/06/2008, -2/+60One crash and the entire system fails.

    Thus..

    THE ENTIRE WORLDS INTERNET WOULD BE OFFLINE.

    Think about the chaos...

    People would get up... go outside... and see their friends and neighbors for the first time.

    Like that episode of the Simpsons...

    wait a sec..

    Simpsons did it?
    • 1randomguy08, on 02/06/2008, -0/+2Well if it's not TV, then it is internet. Maybe we dont care much to see family and friends everyday?
  • InspectorGadget, on 02/06/2008, -2/+48Hopefully IBM hates Scientology as much as we do...
  • Simpson5774, on 02/06/2008, -9/+3Yay for single point of failure, You would need to mirror the database several times over, and you would probably have to spread the clusters out to different parts of the world.

    Then you got a single point in which the feds can tap into for all the info they have ever wanted. How would torrents work in this setup? The idea is fundamentally flawed.
    I also get the feeling that 10.6Pb/s isn't fast enough for the world.
  • intrepidDesign, on 02/06/2008, -8/+1SKYNET!
  • retral, on 02/06/2008, -2/+57and it would still only get a 5.9 hardware rating in vista!
    • VANOS, on 02/06/2008, -0/+10They could use this if they feel inferior:
      Navigate to C:WindowsPerformanceWinSATDataStorexxxx-xx-xx xx.xx.xx.xxx Assessment.WinSAT.xml.

      Open it with notepad. Approximately one 'paragraph' down, you will see listings between the 'winspr' tags.

      These listings include 'system score', 'memoryscore', 'cpuscore', 'cpusubaggscore', 'videoencodescore', 'graphicsscore', 'gamingscore', and 'diskscore'.

      Simply change the value that appears between the opening and closing tags.

      Changing your graphics score to be over 3.0 allows you to have themes for the photo screensaver. Other effects, if any, are unknown.

      You won't be able to "Save As" with notepad so create the file in another directory then overwrite the original.
  • handheldchimp, on 02/06/2008, -2/+3Hmmm...what do we do if it ends up creating its own robot army? I say we build like five of them and see what happens!
  • Zal91, on 02/06/2008, -6/+1But will it play doom?
    Maybe it will come bundled with Duke Nukem Forever.
  • UltramegaOK, on 02/06/2008, -2/+6Rage Against The Machine!!!!!!
    • dawnraid101, on 02/06/2008, -3/+1dont digg him down. RATM is awesome i saw them 2 weeks ago, Zac SPECIFACLY said ***** like this is going to happen in the future
  • dserfaty, on 02/06/2008, -3/+7Hmmm... pita-bytes again...
    • alexforcefive, on 02/06/2008, -3/+4mmmmmmmmmm......... pitta bites....
  • TomPlansMedia, on 02/06/2008, -3/+3this will be in your watch in a decade
    • zcat, on 02/06/2008, -0/+3I wouldn't think so.. but it will probably be on your desktop in 30 years.
      • EntropyShard, on 02/06/2008, -0/+0could just compromise and say that it will be on a laptop in 20 years
  • burbj, on 02/06/2008, -2/+0IBM- the ones in charge of identification and cataloging programs of the 1930s to the selections of the 1940s.
    and in the 21st century the complete control of information.
  • cnldelta, on 02/06/2008, -3/+1Sounds to me like IBM's gonna spin of that department and build Skynet.
    • dawnraid101, on 02/06/2008, -0/+6sounds like this is the 4th skynet joke.
      • ilikechaitea, on 02/06/2008, -0/+2its funny cos the first time I saw it it was dugg down and I dugg it up cos I thought, man, skynet jokes never get tired, I love T films etc etc.....2 minutes on, I am here, on the 4th Joke...and yes, it has got tired....
  • neo2007, on 02/06/2008, -0/+3I do not understand why IBM would be doing such thing. I thought last the last Matrix movie kinda sucked.
  • Khast, on 02/06/2008, -3/+25Yeah, but will it blend?
    • Zaneris, on 02/06/2008, -5/+2We'll need a really big blender...
    • anarchyx34, on 02/06/2008, -2/+1Why does EVERY SINGLE ***** ARTICLE posted to digg.com have a "will it blend" comment? It's not funny anymore.
  • EvanWindsor, on 02/06/2008, -1/+3Great concept, and that computer would be mindblowing, but the idea as a reality to have one central computer controlling everything gives one person too much power in my mind... Might make searching easier though
    • Khast, on 02/06/2008, -1/+1Unless, of course, it uses the Vista search engine.
  • altf4osu, on 02/06/2008, -2/+9Finally, something that might run Vista smoothly.
  • thesnarebear, on 02/06/2008, -2/+8The entire internet downloaded...in three seconds...

    That's a ***** of porn.
  • mrosen310, on 02/06/2008, -0/+1010 petabytes per second that is ***** crazy
    • LinuxGalore, on 02/06/2008, -3/+3spoken like a man who has never used Windows Vista..
    • lostczech, on 02/06/2008, -0/+710 petabits (not bytes, that would make it 8 times faster!)
  • benbfree, on 02/06/2008, -7/+1I just deleted my comment about it being able to play Doom.
  • ogore, on 02/06/2008, -1/+11I heard Al Gore ordered one of these.
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