NASA Upgrades Weather Research Supercomputer 71
Cowards Anonymous writes "NASA's Center for Computational Sciences is nearly tripling the performance of a supercomputer it uses to simulate Earth's climate and weather, and our planet's relationship with the Sun. NASA is deploying a 67-teraflop machine that takes advantage of IBM's iDataPlex servers, new rack-mount products originally developed to serve heavily trafficked social networking sites."
Well how long? (Score:5, Funny)
Does this mean that the forecasting simulation for tomorrow's weather will run in less than 24 hours?
Coincidence? (Score:2, Funny)
NASA Engineer: "You know, chief, I've been thinking. I bet we could just about triple the performance of this thing if we supercooled it."
Manager: "Super what?"
Engineer: "Chilled it to absolute zero, like in the large hadron supercollider. Speeds up the electrons."
Manager: "What would you need to do that?"
Engineer: "Oh, I don't know, maybe... a ton of liquid helium?"
Re:Big Question: (Score:3, Funny)
No, no, no!
This is slashdot and the big questions are:
does it run Linux?
FTFA:
IBM said its new server, which runs Linux and is based on Intel's quad-core Xeon processors
W00t!
Can you imagine a Beowolf cluster of these things and can you give me a car analogy of how fast these things run?
I, for one, welcome our new IBM iDataPlex overlords.
Re:Big Question: (Score:2, Funny)
This is slashdot and the big question is: does it run vista?
In Soviet Russia, supercomputers simulate you !
There, fixed it for you.