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- ubernoggin, on 07/08/2008, -0/+28However, the WOPR will always have a special place in our hearts.
- blindhammer, on 07/09/2008, -0/+16Yes, but can it play Global Thermal Nuclear War?
- inactive, on 07/08/2008, -0/+13Want to play a game...
- wondertwins, on 07/09/2008, -0/+12Crysis with 40 frames per second!!
- gubatron2, on 07/08/2008, -0/+11would like to see pictures of google's datacenters
- brainnovate, on 07/25/2008, -1/+12Imagine the games you could play on those rigs...
- VeroZ, on 07/09/2008, -0/+10but can it run oregon trail?
- Lunarbunny, on 07/09/2008, -0/+9Strange game, the only winning move is not to play...
- brainnovate, on 07/25/2008, -0/+7You must have missed the part of the article where they talked about the visualization system.
- pitchblack16, on 07/08/2008, -3/+10interesting
- aroundtown, on 07/09/2008, -0/+5"175th most powerful" ... the problem is they are still using wires.
- inactive, on 07/08/2008, -1/+6Do they come in hot pink though? If so I will take one.
- brainnovate, on 07/25/2008, -0/+5Can't wait for the special edition of the movie to come out... such a generation defining film for us [relative] oldtimers.
- saltmiser, on 07/09/2008, -0/+4no
- starpower2000, on 07/08/2008, -0/+4pretty cool
- Crossmenjeff, on 07/09/2008, -0/+4how about since war games 2? thats right... they made a sequel.
- MalamuteTX, on 07/09/2008, -0/+4In 30 years, the chassis of these supercomputers will look just as ridiculous as the current pictures of "supercomputers" that existed 30 years ago.
- P373Y, on 07/09/2008, -0/+4that thing was a box with an apple two and a guy in it.
- AWBoy666, on 07/09/2008, -1/+5Oak Ridge is such a cool place.....it holds a kind of mystical aura unlike any other place in Tennessee.
- bdbr, on 07/09/2008, -0/+3I worked on computer systems in the Air Force when that movie came out. We all got a big kick out that movie. A computer that controls the entire nuclear weapons arsenal....with DIAL IN access! What could go wrong?!?!
- Everen, on 07/09/2008, -0/+3That would be from all of the radiation.
- Namco, on 07/09/2008, -0/+3I work for KFHP under KPIT supporting SSL RAS for MDs, RNs, and MBAs.
- yedrellow, on 07/09/2008, -0/+3I guess we may finally have a rig capable of playing Duke Nukem Forever.
- frascellyboy273, on 07/09/2008, -1/+4blue gene looks pretty badass
- kiranlightpaw, on 07/09/2008, -0/+3A lot of Google's equipment is in facilities scattered around the country. Chances are big G has some servers in several datacenters in most major cities.
I've seen some of their equipment in a datacenter in Atlanta. The funny thing is that the facility won't confirm or deny that it's Google. They simply refer to them as "the client." - ninesky01, on 07/09/2008, -0/+2"sir, the jaguar is coming out of cryostasis"
"RUN! run for your puny little lives!"
"take me to the cube" - kamisama, on 07/09/2008, -0/+2A Cray is still one sexy animal.
- P373Y, on 07/09/2008, -0/+2you ruined my day
- WorldGroove, on 07/09/2008, -0/+2Will render all the 3D scenes in Transformers in 5mins or your money back.
- whitecranberry, on 07/09/2008, -0/+2Yeah. You want that hard iron in your basement for what? ... well?
- docfreezzzz, on 07/09/2008, -0/+2Been there... seen that! Its really cool in person. Jaguar is absolutely massive and is undergoing expansion to twice the size I believe. I work on some pretty massive computing clusters myself but that facility draws power in the Megawatt range. Good post!
- Owwmykneecap, on 07/09/2008, -0/+2What do they do with it?
whatever it is they better seed.
Minnie Riperton for Life! - FattyCorpuscle, on 07/09/2008, -0/+2Those are nice looking Crays but where's the love...seat?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Cray-1-deutsche ... - seraph582, on 07/09/2008, -0/+2Wow. I didn't think there was much of anything other than mountains, rivers, spitoons, and pickemup trucks anywhere outside of Nashville in Tennessee!
- gimpbully, on 07/09/2008, -0/+2are you kidding?! roadrunner's just an infiniband cluster with some accellerators (don't kid yourself, that's all a cell is). XT3's are far cooler :)
- Namco, on 07/09/2008, -0/+2But can it emulate Pong yet?
- Namco, on 07/09/2008, -1/+3You fail on a massive scale. Why don't you read the captions on the pretty pictures and learn what they use that processing power for?
- diggenerate, on 07/09/2008, -0/+2If they already have the 5th most powerful computer in the world why do they need the 175th?
- jstem1994, on 07/09/2008, -0/+1from IMDB: "Computer hacker Will Farmer (Lanter) engages a goverment super-computer named Ripley in an online terrorist-attack simulation game. Little does Farmer know that Ripley has been designed to appeal to potential terrorists, and certain glitches have turned made him become paranoid."
I hate it when things turn made me become paranoid... - elpohl, on 07/09/2008, -0/+1That doesn't meet the first post requirements. Buried!
- docfreezzzz, on 07/09/2008, -0/+1Actually, Pixar has an account with ORNL doing work in real time ray tracing. So... yes it is used for that.
- dhuffman1223, on 07/09/2008, -0/+1Been there!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/f-stop/214448487/in/s ... - elpohl, on 07/09/2008, -0/+1My uncle works for the ORLY corporation, he supports LOL WTF, and OMG BBQs.
- utkwes, on 07/10/2008, -0/+1We played Quake on the Visualization Wall and watched the movie Terminator when I was there.
- diggmc, on 07/09/2008, -0/+1Unfortunately! That's an hour and change of my life I won't get back.
- elektronjunge, on 07/09/2008, -1/+2meh. RoadRunner was cooler, I'd show pics but if I brought a camera in there I would be posting from Gitmo...
- ghostlywind, on 07/09/2008, -0/+1It was good till they got to Stephen Hawkins, then it just got severely goofy.
- OakRidger, on 07/10/2008, -0/+1See - there you go not thinking again :)
- lamiaconfitor, on 07/09/2008, -0/+1"Global thermo-nuclear war? ... What is this?"
- Toupee, on 07/09/2008, -1/+2Funny, in my head I expected this to be a Doctor Who reference.
You see, in the latest episode of the new series, Catherine Tate's character Donna's memory of the Doctor is completely removed ... just like what happens to the 2nd Doctor, Patrick (Ol' Trouty!) Troughton's companions Jamie and Zoe, way back in 1969.
Sad stuff. Both brilliant stories. Sorry for the spoilers. :( -
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