Tulsa is getting a Supercomputer

[patric]

Oh great, now Oklahoma City will have to get one and call it "OKC's Super Supercomputer."

It will need a beard.

[Gaspar]

Gotta love Supercomputers!!

Got to play on a Cray XMP-48 (shows how old I am...) and a Denelcor HEP for a while.  Very cool for the time.

I have a watch more powerful than that now.

I had a friend with a Silicon Graphics box that we used to use for rendering and video production.  Used to think that was as fast as you could get!

[heironymouspasparagus]

I have a watch more powerful than that now.

I had a friend with a Silicon Graphics box that we used to use for rendering and video production.  Used to think that was as fast as you could get!

Apparently there is still a market out there for old Cray's for sale.  Some people are even trying to get them running.  Some of the smaller EL systems only use 10kwatts of power or so, making them into just the coolest household heater you could imagine.  But when you get it into the front room, there is no longer room for anything else....

[swake]

My dad was a research scientist at NIST in Maryland in the 70s and they had a huge old mothballed "super" computer. If I recall correctly it was a Univac from the 50s and it was housed in a single story building. Or it looked single story at ground level, when you walked in it was a huge room where the bottom of the floor was a basement a couple of stories down. The building was next to my dad's lab and I used to be able to wander around it when I was a kid if I could get him to take me over there. The computer filled the room with banks of tape decks and punchcard readers. It looked like something out of Star Trek even though it was by then hopelessly out of date and unused. When I was six or seven it was awesome. I'm sure 100 of those computers couldn't touch my iPhone today.

[heironymouspasparagus]

My dad was a research scientist at NIST in Maryland in the 70s and they had a huge old mothballed "super" computer. If I recall correctly it was a Univac from the 50s and it was housed in a single story building. Or it looked single story at ground level, when you walked in it was a huge room where the bottom of the floor was a basement a couple of stories down. The building was next to my dad's lab and I used to be able to wander around it when I was a kid if I could get him to take me over there. The computer filled the room with banks of tape decks and punchcard readers. It looked like something out of Star Trek even though it was by then hopelessly out of date and unused. When I was six or seven it was awesome. I'm sure 100 of those computers couldn't touch my iPhone today.

Line up 100 of those and they would reach around the earth 3 times.....


Big Iron.

[sgrizzle]

I hope it talks.

The body is willing but the flesh is spongy and bruised

[Townsend]

The body is willing but the flesh is spongy and bruised

Snoo snoo

[Jeff P]

You guys are all wrong.

Here is the real supercomputer.  Apparently it likes to play chess.

[Weatherdemon]

Just read an article saying that since Tulsa was getting a super computer that OKC investors were looking into getting a super-duper computer.

Here is a sneak preview:

[nathanm]

The carbon footprint of a processing system like that is enormous. Someone call Al Gore!

Being a time-shared system, it should spend much less time idling and wasting power.

[carltonplace]

Just read an article saying that since Tulsa was getting a super computer that OKC investors were looking into getting a super-duper computer.

Here is a sneak preview:

That Super-duper computer is rocking an Alphabetical non-QWRTY keyboard.

[sgrizzle]

That Super-duper computer is rocking an Alphabetical non-QWRTY keyboard.

Starting your kids off with a non-qwerty keyboard? That's almost as bad as starting them off with Episode 1.

[Townsend]

Starting your kids off with a non-qwerty keyboard? That's almost as bad as starting them off with Episode 1.

I disagree.  They can still learn a qwerty.  They can't unlearn the suck.

[swake]

Starting your kids off with a non-qwerty keyboard? That's almost as bad as starting them off with Episode 1.

Non-qwerty keyboard vs Jar Jar Binks? Please.

Jar Jar wins every time. He is the center of all evil.