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- BlindingDawn, on 02/06/2008, -2/+494Maybe Crysis will run on this.
- LordSeth, on 02/06/2008, -16/+148But is it Vista Capable?
- bigboy101011, on 02/06/2008, -0/+108can anyone say skynet?
- mcgarry83, on 02/06/2008, -3/+107But not at full res of course
- 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.
- getoffmybridge, on 05/05/2009, -2/+80They forgot to mention that the display adapter is an ATI Rage 128
- TheGroje, on 02/06/2008, -4/+72... and a red ring of death approximately 80 meters in diameter...
- deaconyermouf, on 02/06/2008, -2/+63I want to be the first to kick the plug out of the socket
- ChiGGz, on 02/06/2008, -0/+60Better start making those "My other computer is a 67.1m-core IBM megasystem" stickers.
- 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? - retral, on 02/06/2008, -2/+57and it would still only get a 5.9 hardware rating in vista!
- vondrak, on 02/06/2008, -1/+55all the worlds internet porn in one hidden folder
- JavertHolmes, on 02/06/2008, -2/+54How exactly are all the tubes going to fit into the I/O port of one computer case?
- inactive, on 02/06/2008, -4/+54it's logo could be a big Bullseye.
- 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.
- 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.
- InspectorGadget, on 02/06/2008, -2/+48Hopefully IBM hates Scientology as much as we do...
- Lane, on 02/06/2008, -0/+46Well so much for that "the internet is too big to be filtered" logic....
- TopherT, on 02/06/2008, -2/+42oh, you misunderstood, the comment about crysis was actually a joke.
- wingnut21, on 02/06/2008, -2/+39Centralized != Internet.
- 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. =]
- handheldchimp, on 02/06/2008, -0/+30Dude, your house would probably fit inside of the computer itself.
- zmjone2992, on 02/06/2008, -0/+29We are going to call the computer Skynet
- eH9116, on 02/06/2008, -1/+29Well played.
- 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...
- solarwind24, on 02/06/2008, -0/+26There goes your energy bill.
- acrodev, on 02/06/2008, -2/+27Finally we'll be able to study the world's porn in a safe environment.
- erkokite, on 02/06/2008, -0/+23No, it's been established that Crysis requires no less than a monolith from outer space.
- notjustmii, on 02/06/2008, -2/+25I want one in my house.
- MioTheGreat, on 02/06/2008, -2/+25Yes, but you can forget about watching Blu-Ray disks on it without downsampling.
- dinostabOMG, on 02/06/2008, -0/+23Just think of how many facebook pokes they could execute per second.
- Khast, on 02/06/2008, -3/+25Yeah, but will it blend?
- danielplainview, on 02/06/2008, -2/+24O ya, I rember this computer, Neo got killed by it at the end of the trilogy
- inactive, on 02/06/2008, -6/+27Sounds like the type of computer Dr. Evil would covet.... Crazy stuff...
- 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.
- 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.
- alexforcefive, on 02/06/2008, -0/+17Nothing to do with the computer spec of course, the DRM just likes to ***** with people
- elfprince13, on 02/06/2008, -4/+21as if IBM would use x86 processors!
- FatLoser, on 02/06/2008, -1/+18and all your secret shemale porns in another, even more secret folder
- 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.
- XBSHX, on 02/06/2008, -0/+17I always knew it would be IBM who created it... those bastards!!
- 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 ) - bitmanx, on 02/06/2008, -0/+15Single point of failure sounds great, start over in the UK first..
- noupsell, on 02/06/2008, -0/+14http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064177/
- 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!
- alecks, on 02/06/2008, -0/+13or a few trans-oceanic cables
- 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.
- mrsteveman1, on 02/06/2008, -0/+12wow. just.......wow
- acdcfanbill, on 02/06/2008, -0/+12Me too, I'm tired of waiting for stupid pages to load.
- goblindegook, on 02/06/2008, -0/+12Wow, just as I was thinking it was safe to take off my tinfoil hat.
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