World's Greenest Supercomputer is Not the Fastest

[zorky9]

i just had lunch at an Indian buffet and i let out some CO2.. i'm not green.

 

[gm0n3y]

[citation][nom]zorky9[/nom]i just had lunch at an Indian buffet and i let out some CO2.. i'm not green.[/citation]
Mmmmm, green curry....nom nom nom

 

[knightmike]

How did carbon dioxide become the scapegoat for carbon monoxide?

 

[lauxenburg]

[citation][nom]maximus20895[/nom]I think it's funny how this super computer only has 18 GB of memory and some people have 32+ GB for their gaming computer..[/citation]

What idiot do you know has 32GB of RAM for gaming?

 

[Tamz_msc]

The custom accelerator board, developed by a professor at the University of Tokyo, enhances performance of the Core i7-920 system by about five times, according to TechOn.

Can I have one?

 

[vectorm12]

[citation][nom]joebob2000[/nom]So the accelerator is there to enhance the operations specific to supercomputing (floating point crunching) and would probably be of little to no benefit to anyone's desktop pc (unless you loved floating points THAT much).[/citation]


Actually I believe the extra floating point performance could benefit quite a few workstation scenarios when dealing with heavy rendering and video encoding/scaling etc. Trouble would probably be finding software capable of taking advantage of it.

 

[dEAne]

That will be the case smaller, low power consumption, maybe less wire and very powerful.

 

[bradlei]

Loved the 'pretty sure it can joke' almost as much as the fact that the dumb people who ask that old stupid question were 2 dumb 2 even get it and still asked and mentioned it lol

 

[acadia11]

[citation][nom]banthracis[/nom]I'm sorry, why do you assume that I'm talking about mankind's contribution?Mankind's contribution to CO2 in the atmosphere is a minor % of the total.However, the total release of CO2 into the atmosphere does exceed the ability of photosynthesizing organisms to remove. Plant's also only contribute a small percentage to CO2 removal. It's algae that do the vast majority of the removal.[/citation]

That is correct.

And on another note, Conservative talking heads only choose to ignore mankinds contribution, because, they want to argue. If it comes out a liberals math, instant knee jerk reaction to disagree, no matter it's validity or not. How serious is the situation, going as far back as Richard Nixon, who initiated a commission to study the matter, who ultimately surmised certainly mankind has and will continue to increase their contribution. It's real simple 250 million years ago, the Earth was some 20 degrees hotter, eventually the earths oceans became stagnant and thus poisonous algea and plankton, died creating layers upon layers of organic matter that became fossil feuls, this locked up alot of the earths CO2, the dead plankton .... we come along 250 million years later, and we start burning the plankton now fossilized fuel there by releasing the CO2, likely eventually warming the earth to what it was 250 million years ago, it's not that complicated.

As for Al Gore joke as you might but the guy is actually very smart, "He was instrumental in creating the internet during his time as a US Senator." Enter Vincent Cerf and Robert Kahn two of the pioneers in the technologies that created the internet who defended Gore's role as being the only politician in the 70's who understood the potential power, let alone , got them the funding, writing legislation, and giving backing they needed to bring the "future internet" out of the lab and into the private sector and universities.

I'm tired of conservative heads simply spouting off at the mouth and disagreeing just to disagree, drill baby drill, oh wait, youknow if you just go willy nilly drilling all over the place, chances are we might f**k up our environment, shut up youliberal, you don't what you are talking about ... oh wait ... never mind.