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DARPA awards $76.6m supercomputer challenge

If you were thinking about entering the US Defense Advanced Research Project Agency's ExtremeScale supercomputing challenge issued in March, you missed your chance. DARPA's awarded grants to four design teams, plus another that'll run benchmarks on the HPC prototypes. The heavy hitters in the HPC community as well as in …

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Monday 9th August 2010 20:50 GMT Anonymous Coward

IBM and HP? not x86

If you look at where IBM and HP are going its x86 server racks, focus on ops/watt, cost. this stuff is too niche.

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Tuesday 10th August 2010 09:11 GMT Anonymous Coward

Please tell me

Georgia Institute of Technology uses a short form closer that used by their California cousins and not their Massachusetts brethren. Lets face it, "tested by Geotech" sounds much better than "tested by GIT".

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1. Tuesday 10th August 2010 14:39 GMT Munchausen's proxy
  
  Georgia Tech
  
  Is their commonly used name, immortalized in their football song: "I'm a rambling wreck from Georgia Tech, and a hell of an engineer."
  
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Tuesday 10th August 2010 14:39 GMT Dale 3

24 inches by 78 inches by 40 inches

Pah! Show me petaflops performance in 1U of rack space. Now that would be impressive.

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Tuesday 10th August 2010 15:23 GMT John Smith 19

I know why SGI did'nt get a lookin

Someone stole their MoJo.

You can guess what DVD's in the pocket.

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Tuesday 10th August 2010 17:45 GMT perlcat

I know where Larrabee is...

Hiding in either a bus station locker, or in a mailbox. Pretty soon agent 86 will spot him.

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Tuesday 10th August 2010 17:45 GMT the bat

Hmm one step closer

One step closer to getting a system for the Area 51 spaceship!

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