'Flash Gordon' supercomputer powers up in January

Say hello to Flash Gordon; the world's first flash-powered supercomputer will come online in the San Diego Supercomputer Centre in January. It's being built by Appro International using Intel 710 flash drives and cost a bargain basement (this is supercomputing budget land) $20 million for 280+ teraflops, 36 million IOPS, and …

[Code Monkey]

Dear HPC nerds

On powering up, please, please someone say "Gordon's Aliiiive!"

[Anonymous Coward]

Gordons Alive!

I do hope some says that when they switch it on.

[Stevie]

Bah!

Once they turn on McAffee Internet Protection Suite FG Edition it should slow down to a manageable speed.

[PeterM42]

McAfee??

I think it has been renamed to McCrap

[stucs201]

Flash, I love you...

....but we only have 14 hours to complete this calculation.

(mines the one with the keys to the rocket sled in the pocket)

[Jock in a Frock]

Flash! Flash! I love you, but we only have eighteen hours to TRIM the drives!

[stucs201]

14, not 18.

[Anonymous Coward]

Just grab the relevant sample off Brian Blessed off the single then have one of the boxes play it at start up, might have to attach a speaker to it, I guess...

[Local Group]

Monarch of Mongo, Ming the Merciless

will have something to say about this Flash powered super computer:

Ming: "Take it to the Disintegrating Room."