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From: Carbon on 25 Feb 2010 20:57 On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:36:55 -0500, BAR wrote: > In article <4b870bdd$0$4863$9a6e19ea(a)unlimited.newshosting.com>, > nobrac(a)nospam.tampabay.rr.com says... >> On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 08:32:46 -0500, BAR wrote: >> >>> I haven't payed for computer time in years. I can't believe that you >>> are not using a Linux cluster, 16, 32, 64 or 128 quad processor >>> Linux systems with 64 GB of RAM should make a nice little parallel >>> processing system. >> >> Is computer time free on these systems? >> >> http://www.top500.org/list/2009/11/100 > > Looks like a majority of them are just a bunch of massively parallel > systems. > > The Air Force is making a supercomputer out of Sony PS3's. > > http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/345642/Air_Force_Taps_PlayStation > _3_for_Research > > The supercomputer isn't what it used to be. Correct. They are much more powerful than they used to be. Powerful enough to analyze very large data sets, such as those climatologists work with.
From: William Clark on 25 Feb 2010 21:24 In article <4b872a77$0$5094$9a6e19ea(a)unlimited.newshosting.com>, Carbon <nobrac(a)nospam.tampabay.rr.com> wrote: > On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:36:55 -0500, BAR wrote: > > In article <4b870bdd$0$4863$9a6e19ea(a)unlimited.newshosting.com>, > > nobrac(a)nospam.tampabay.rr.com says... > >> On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 08:32:46 -0500, BAR wrote: > >> > >>> I haven't payed for computer time in years. I can't believe that you > >>> are not using a Linux cluster, 16, 32, 64 or 128 quad processor > >>> Linux systems with 64 GB of RAM should make a nice little parallel > >>> processing system. > >> > >> Is computer time free on these systems? > >> > >> http://www.top500.org/list/2009/11/100 > > > > Looks like a majority of them are just a bunch of massively parallel > > systems. > > > > The Air Force is making a supercomputer out of Sony PS3's. > > > > http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/345642/Air_Force_Taps_PlayStation > > _3_for_Research > > > > The supercomputer isn't what it used to be. > > Correct. They are much more powerful than they used to be. Powerful > enough to analyze very large data sets, such as those climatologists > work with. And which lie beyond his comprehension.
From: BAR on 26 Feb 2010 08:32 In article <4b872a77$0$5094$9a6e19ea(a)unlimited.newshosting.com>, nobrac(a)nospam.tampabay.rr.com says... > > On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:36:55 -0500, BAR wrote: > > In article <4b870bdd$0$4863$9a6e19ea(a)unlimited.newshosting.com>, > > nobrac(a)nospam.tampabay.rr.com says... > >> On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 08:32:46 -0500, BAR wrote: > >> > >>> I haven't payed for computer time in years. I can't believe that you > >>> are not using a Linux cluster, 16, 32, 64 or 128 quad processor > >>> Linux systems with 64 GB of RAM should make a nice little parallel > >>> processing system. > >> > >> Is computer time free on these systems? > >> > >> http://www.top500.org/list/2009/11/100 > > > > Looks like a majority of them are just a bunch of massively parallel > > systems. > > > > The Air Force is making a supercomputer out of Sony PS3's. > > > > http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/345642/Air_Force_Taps_PlayStation > > _3_for_Research > > > > The supercomputer isn't what it used to be. > > Correct. They are much more powerful than they used to be. Powerful > enough to analyze very large data sets, such as those climatologists > work with. Back in the day, when supercomputers emerged there were two primary activities that supercomputers were sought out to perform. One was nuclear warhead design and the other was weather prediction. Are climatologists now predicting tomorrows weather?
From: Carbon on 26 Feb 2010 13:26 On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 08:32:54 -0500, BAR wrote: > In article <4b872a77$0$5094$9a6e19ea(a)unlimited.newshosting.com>, > nobrac(a)nospam.tampabay.rr.com says... >> On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 20:36:55 -0500, BAR wrote: >>> In article <4b870bdd$0$4863$9a6e19ea(a)unlimited.newshosting.com>, >>> nobrac(a)nospam.tampabay.rr.com says... >>>> On Thu, 25 Feb 2010 08:32:46 -0500, BAR wrote: >>>> >>>>> I haven't payed for computer time in years. I can't believe that >>>>> you are not using a Linux cluster, 16, 32, 64 or 128 quad >>>>> processor Linux systems with 64 GB of RAM should make a nice >>>>> little parallel processing system. >>>> >>>> Is computer time free on these systems? >>>> >>>> http://www.top500.org/list/2009/11/100 >>> >>> Looks like a majority of them are just a bunch of massively parallel >>> systems. >>> >>> The Air Force is making a supercomputer out of Sony PS3's. >>> >>> http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/345642/ >>> Air_Force_Taps_PlayStation _3_for_Research >>> >>> The supercomputer isn't what it used to be. >> >> Correct. They are much more powerful than they used to be. Powerful >> enough to analyze very large data sets, such as those climatologists >> work with. > > Back in the day, when supercomputers emerged there were two primary > activities that supercomputers were sought out to perform. One was > nuclear warhead design and the other was weather prediction. > > Are climatologists now predicting tomorrows weather? Not just tomorrow. But yes, obviously.
From: Moderate on 26 Feb 2010 16:40
"BAR" <screw(a)you.com> wrote in message news:MPG.25f1832068d96abc989c6b(a)news.giganews.com... > > Back in the day, when supercomputers emerged there were two primary > activities that supercomputers were sought out to perform. One was > nuclear warhead design and the other was weather prediction. > > Are climatologists now predicting tomorrows weather? No, they can't make an accurate prediction that far in the future, but they have this AGW locked as a sure thing. |