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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on IBM's Blue Gene/L: world's fastest supercomputer at 280.6 teraflops]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/28/ibms-blue-gene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-at-280-6/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/28/ibms-blue-gene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-at-280-6/</guid><description><![CDATA[im actually surprised there isnt a Distributed computing program that pays people for cpu cycles yet.  I thought for sure places without highly confidential data would rather spend a mill to have the spare cycles of every teen's PC in the US instead of paying a billion to build a PC.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[mike]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 19th 2005 2:06AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on IBM's Blue Gene/L: world's fastest supercomputer at 280.6 teraflops]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/28/ibms-blue-gene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-at-280-6/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/28/ibms-blue-gene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-at-280-6/</guid><description><![CDATA[pretty cool never seen it before... thanks]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[bc]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 19th 2005 2:06AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on IBM's Blue Gene/L: world's fastest supercomputer at 280.6 teraflops]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/28/ibms-blue-gene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-at-280-6/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/28/ibms-blue-gene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-at-280-6/</guid><description><![CDATA[Do you think perhaps they can spare some processing time for the Engadget folding team?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Stretchpants]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 19th 2005 2:06AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on IBM's Blue Gene/L: world's fastest supercomputer at 280.6 teraflops]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/28/ibms-blue-gene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-at-280-6/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/28/ibms-blue-gene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-at-280-6/</guid><description><![CDATA[AND  we're back to computers that fill a room. :-) :-P]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[John Doe.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 19th 2005 2:06AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on IBM's Blue Gene/L: world's fastest supercomputer at 280.6 teraflops]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/28/ibms-blue-gene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-at-280-6/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/28/ibms-blue-gene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-at-280-6/</guid><description><![CDATA[IBM is into the World Comminty Grid<br>http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/<br>not so much w/ folding@home]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ed]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 19th 2005 2:06AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on IBM's Blue Gene/L: world's fastest supercomputer at 280.6 teraflops]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/28/ibms-blue-gene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-at-280-6/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/28/ibms-blue-gene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-at-280-6/</guid><description><![CDATA[but..<br><br>can it play Doom?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[robotrock]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 19th 2005 2:06AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on IBM's Blue Gene/L: world's fastest supercomputer at 280.6 teraflops]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/28/ibms-blue-gene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-at-280-6/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/28/ibms-blue-gene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-at-280-6/</guid><description><![CDATA[According to moore's law we should have this power in just 9 years!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Benjamin Prosnitz]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 19th 2005 2:06AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on IBM's Blue Gene/L: world's fastest supercomputer at 280.6 teraflops]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/28/ibms-blue-gene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-at-280-6/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/28/ibms-blue-gene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-at-280-6/</guid><description><![CDATA[The Government is secretly operating these big Supercomputers to calculate new and devious ways to murder us civilians. You know what IBM stands for right? <br><br>"Instruments for Butchering Mankind."<br><br>After the world Government bans all firearms and motor vehicles, they'll be coming for our computers next.  Mark my words.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Rusty Shackleford]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 19th 2005 2:06AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on IBM's Blue Gene/L: world's fastest supercomputer at 280.6 teraflops]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/28/ibms-blue-gene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-at-280-6/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/28/ibms-blue-gene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-at-280-6/</guid><description><![CDATA["Shall we play a game?"<br>>Global Thermonuclear War]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Freaky Smalls]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 19th 2005 2:06AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on IBM's Blue Gene/L: world's fastest supercomputer at 280.6 teraflops]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/28/ibms-blue-gene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-at-280-6/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/28/ibms-blue-gene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-at-280-6/</guid><description><![CDATA[haha #7 your probly right. But you know what the most scary thing is. Its not the US government its the Chinese government. Remember awhile back when they bought IBM computing. Well you see what they got out of the bargan. The top supercomputer in the world in the hands of the Chinese that is probly running US Military Simulations right in the hands of the Chinese]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Quicksilver]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 19th 2005 2:06AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on IBM's Blue Gene/L: world's fastest supercomputer at 280.6 teraflops]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/28/ibms-blue-gene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-at-280-6/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/28/ibms-blue-gene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-at-280-6/</guid><description><![CDATA[Considering that these computers are built by Lenovo, I think it would be cheap enough to buy ;-)<br><br>BTW, isn't IBM involved in the systematic regime of the Nazis?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[js]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 19th 2005 2:06AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on IBM's Blue Gene/L: world's fastest supercomputer at 280.6 teraflops]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/28/ibms-blue-gene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-at-280-6/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/28/ibms-blue-gene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-at-280-6/</guid><description><![CDATA[Lenovo only owns the PC Division of IBM not the Supercomputer divison. And IBM ain't the bitch in this relationship, IBM has a 19% stake in Lenovo and part of the bargain involved them to set up their HQ in New York. <br><br>On the flipside, they really need to make these supercomputers take the shape of hundreds of monoliths a la 2001: A Space Odyssey.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Brad Hill]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 19th 2005 2:06AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on IBM's Blue Gene/L: world's fastest supercomputer at 280.6 teraflops]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/28/ibms-blue-gene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-at-280-6/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/28/ibms-blue-gene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-at-280-6/</guid><description><![CDATA[Slightly bigger than my ThinkPad then!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ben Mullinger]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 19th 2005 2:06AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on IBM's Blue Gene/L: world's fastest supercomputer at 280.6 teraflops]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/28/ibms-blue-gene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-at-280-6/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/28/ibms-blue-gene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-at-280-6/</guid><description><![CDATA[And here I though the PS3 was the world's bestest supercomputer!   (plz don't flame me its a joke laugh darn it!)]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Matt]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 19th 2005 2:06AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on IBM's Blue Gene/L: world's fastest supercomputer at 280.6 teraflops]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/28/ibms-blue-gene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-at-280-6/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/28/ibms-blue-gene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-at-280-6/</guid><description><![CDATA["You know what IBM stands for right? "<br>Insert Banana Monthly]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Matt]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 19th 2005 2:06AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on IBM's Blue Gene/L: world's fastest supercomputer at 280.6 teraflops]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/28/ibms-blue-gene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-at-280-6/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/28/ibms-blue-gene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-at-280-6/</guid><description><![CDATA[And so Skynet finally finds a home. Shortly after Blue Gene/L came online a liquid metal man and a tall "foreign sounding guy" (wanted since the 1980s for homicide) were seen rampaging through various cities across America.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Will]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 19th 2005 2:06AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on IBM's Blue Gene/L: world's fastest supercomputer at 280.6 teraflops]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/28/ibms-blue-gene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-at-280-6/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/28/ibms-blue-gene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-at-280-6/</guid><description><![CDATA[Ya...but can it run Doom?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Benny]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 19th 2005 2:06AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on IBM's Blue Gene/L: world's fastest supercomputer at 280.6 teraflops]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/28/ibms-blue-gene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-at-280-6/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/28/ibms-blue-gene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-at-280-6/</guid><description><![CDATA[I'll credit Ben Mullinger with the following thought:<br><br>"Please step into my ThinkPad.  Sometimes I also like to call it my CompuFlat."]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[yournamehere]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 19th 2005 2:06AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on IBM's Blue Gene/L: world's fastest supercomputer at 280.6 teraflops]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/28/ibms-blue-gene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-at-280-6/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/28/ibms-blue-gene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-at-280-6/</guid><description><![CDATA[I was in the lab right next to blue gene, could peer through the doors, but I probably would have been shot if I would have walked over..... pretty cool stuff over there though.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[eli]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 19th 2005 2:06AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on IBM's Blue Gene/L: world's fastest supercomputer at 280.6 teraflops]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/28/ibms-blue-gene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-at-280-6/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/28/ibms-blue-gene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-at-280-6/</guid><description><![CDATA[Judging by the picture, it looks like IBM has built the world's largest piano keyboard.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dave]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 19th 2005 2:06AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on IBM's Blue Gene/L: world's fastest supercomputer at 280.6 teraflops]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/28/ibms-blue-gene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-at-280-6/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/28/ibms-blue-gene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-at-280-6/</guid><description><![CDATA[I wonder what datacenter that's housed in.  No IBM DC I've ever been in looks like that.  Lots of cooling in places where it shouldn't be either, I wonder if it makes more heat than the average rack setup.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Mark]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 19th 2005 2:06AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on IBM's Blue Gene/L: world's fastest supercomputer at 280.6 teraflops]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/28/ibms-blue-gene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-at-280-6/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/28/ibms-blue-gene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-at-280-6/</guid><description><![CDATA[What many people do not understand is that this machine is built to only do certain tasks. This may do great on the top500 test as they test for flops, but I bet if you performed tasks that the other machines might do, blue gene might not do so well in.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[garrett]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 19th 2005 2:06AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on IBM's Blue Gene/L: world's fastest supercomputer at 280.6 teraflops]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/28/ibms-blue-gene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-at-280-6/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/28/ibms-blue-gene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-at-280-6/</guid><description><![CDATA[#21 you are correct, this is specially built for certain purposes only, however in the next room, IBM is gearing up with ASCI Purple which houses what should be one of the largest 'general purpose' supercomputers in the world.  Using all off the shelf parts, high end, but off the shelf no less.<br><br>And #20, that room is super freaking cold, most people have jackets that they wear when they need to go on the floor.  But you can find a warm spot between the nodes and be fine.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[eli]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 19th 2005 2:06AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on IBM's Blue Gene/L: world's fastest supercomputer at 280.6 teraflops]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/28/ibms-blue-gene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-at-280-6/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/28/ibms-blue-gene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-at-280-6/</guid><description><![CDATA[I think Engadget should ask if they want to join the Folding at home team you guys just set up.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[James]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 19th 2005 2:06AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on IBM's Blue Gene/L: world's fastest supercomputer at 280.6 teraflops]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/28/ibms-blue-gene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-at-280-6/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/28/ibms-blue-gene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-at-280-6/</guid><description><![CDATA[What kind of FPS will I get out of HL2 or WoW? 6 trillion? Windows would just delete it self on booting... Man, I bet ya it weighs more then my civic(1100 pounds).]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[SargeMonkey]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 19th 2005 2:06AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on IBM's Blue Gene/L: world's fastest supercomputer at 280.6 teraflops]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/28/ibms-blue-gene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-at-280-6/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/28/ibms-blue-gene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-at-280-6/</guid><description><![CDATA[Yeah, but they forgot the Floppy Drive.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[En_croute]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 19th 2005 2:06AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on IBM's Blue Gene/L: world's fastest supercomputer at 280.6 teraflops]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/28/ibms-blue-gene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-at-280-6/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/28/ibms-blue-gene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-at-280-6/</guid><description><![CDATA[lan party anywone?<br><br>and i was so proud <br>of my gameboy <br>advanced capaceties <br>:p]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[vocifer]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 19th 2005 2:06AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on IBM's Blue Gene/L: world's fastest supercomputer at 280.6 teraflops]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/28/ibms-blue-gene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-at-280-6/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/28/ibms-blue-gene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-at-280-6/</guid><description><![CDATA[But it's black not blue!<br><br>How can we trust the 'flop figures if they lie about the colour?<br>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter Flops]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Dec 19th 2005 2:06AM</pubDate></item></channel></rss>