This computer is nearly as good as mine

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4386404.stm

Do you think it has jerky scrolling?

I like it, but I don't like the way the side edge leans/slopes - If I bought one, then I'd sort that with a hammer and chisel and other stuff.

Really cool, but what makes me angry is that they are using Purple to calculate how effective their nuclear stockpiles are! Couldn't they use it to do, more, humane things!?!? Global warming for example!!?

yeah shame to see all that computing power go to waste.

You mean you need a computer to work out that you shouldn't spew fumes into the atmosphere?

The irony is that after one nuclear EMP burst and all those computers will be good for is a rather wicked paintball arena.

Is it just me or the fact that it's got 131,072 processors take the shine off a touch?

Sloped armour is so that bullets will deflect off it. Duh.

As much as you need a computer to figure out that a large nuke will do more damage than a small one.

Chances are, a computer that size used for millitary purposes, is going to have an EMP shield.

Wow! My chess program might actually beat somebody running on that thing. ;-)

I wonder how many years/decades/centuries(!) it will be before this kind of computing power is available to the average consumer. No idea what it would be needed for but I'd be interested to know how long down the track before something with equivalent power is in every home - in our lifetimes?

I heard Dell is going to start selling these things to college students.

I has got a dumb amount of processors, maybe they aren'tthat powerful individually.

I think it kinda looks like Quake 2 scenery.

131,000 intel 386 processors? :P

i.e. no maths co-pro.

Hmm, I'll bet Windows will still have to load.

> Do you think it has jerky scrolling?

If the monitor isn't in sync with the refresh rate, then yes :)

I wonder what the different people here think.

Do 131,000 386 processors at 20mhz each, run at 2620ghz, or 20mhz?

The techy ones will know.

I had to explain it all to an A+ trainee :)

>Do 131,000 386 processors at 20mhz each, run at 2620ghz,
>or 20mhz?

20MHz, but depending on how well you can optimise the tasks for massive parallel operations, you should see a much higher efficiency than with a single processor setup.

Andy

>Do 131,000 386 processors at 20mhz each, run at 2620ghz,
>or 20mhz?

20MHz, but depending on how well you can optimise the tasks for massive parallel operations, you should see a much higher efficiency than with a single processor setup.


Andy

Echo. Echo.

yeh, I had to explain that to a trainee in an A+ course- he was so dissapointed that 2 2ghz machines didnt make a 4ghz machine.