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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Japanese supercomputer breaks the petaflop barrier]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/31/japanese-supercomputer-breaks-the-petaflop-barrier/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/31/japanese-supercomputer-breaks-the-petaflop-barrier/</guid><description><![CDATA[I wonder if this is the kind of machine we have been waiting for to play Duke Nukem Forever...]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Turtle D]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jul 31st 2006 12:59PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Japanese supercomputer breaks the petaflop barrier]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/31/japanese-supercomputer-breaks-the-petaflop-barrier/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/31/japanese-supercomputer-breaks-the-petaflop-barrier/</guid><description><![CDATA[no i think its the next super computer due out in 3 more years]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[gangstified]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Oct 15th 2007 9:30PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Japanese supercomputer breaks the petaflop barrier]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/31/japanese-supercomputer-breaks-the-petaflop-barrier/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/31/japanese-supercomputer-breaks-the-petaflop-barrier/</guid><description><![CDATA[Hmm, and with a cluster of these, local news stations may now be able to accurately predict the weather SIX days in advance.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Matthew Brundage]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jul 31st 2006 1:03PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Japanese supercomputer breaks the petaflop barrier]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/31/japanese-supercomputer-breaks-the-petaflop-barrier/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/31/japanese-supercomputer-breaks-the-petaflop-barrier/</guid><description><![CDATA[MDGrape-3 will never top the supercomputing charts - it is not a real supercomputer.  Instead, it is a special purpose machine built solely to run ONE very specific program.  This article never should have been posted - the claim that MDGrape-3 will top the supercomputing charts is just as wrong as saying that Intel & AMD are about to be upstaged in processor performance by a GPU from nVidia.  Sure, a GPU can push more polygons than a CPU.  But try websurfing on a GPU - it just won't work.  GPUs are built specifically for Graphics, just like MDGrape-3 is built specifically for Molecular Dynamics.  MDGrape-3 can't even run the benchmarks needed to get on the supercomputing charts.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Bryan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jul 31st 2006 1:07PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Japanese supercomputer breaks the petaflop barrier]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/31/japanese-supercomputer-breaks-the-petaflop-barrier/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/31/japanese-supercomputer-breaks-the-petaflop-barrier/</guid><description><![CDATA[If it can't play Doom it's not a real computer.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Richard]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jul 31st 2006 1:12PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Japanese supercomputer breaks the petaflop barrier]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/31/japanese-supercomputer-breaks-the-petaflop-barrier/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/31/japanese-supercomputer-breaks-the-petaflop-barrier/</guid><description><![CDATA["If it can't play Doom it's not a real computer."<br><br>Hahaha. For real, playing Doom at 11,128 frames per second is where computer technology is supposed to proceed.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[maxxwizard]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jul 31st 2006 1:15PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Japanese supercomputer breaks the petaflop barrier]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/31/japanese-supercomputer-breaks-the-petaflop-barrier/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/31/japanese-supercomputer-breaks-the-petaflop-barrier/</guid><description><![CDATA[Wonder how well it runs Photoshop.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Volsfan91]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jul 31st 2006 1:20PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Japanese supercomputer breaks the petaflop barrier]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/31/japanese-supercomputer-breaks-the-petaflop-barrier/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/31/japanese-supercomputer-breaks-the-petaflop-barrier/</guid><description><![CDATA[So let's put this in Real World numbers...  How many SETI WUs can it crank out in a day?  heh.  They should run that on there for a week just for fun.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Mike]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jul 31st 2006 1:28PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Japanese supercomputer breaks the petaflop barrier]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/31/japanese-supercomputer-breaks-the-petaflop-barrier/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/31/japanese-supercomputer-breaks-the-petaflop-barrier/</guid><description><![CDATA[I thought a petaflop was a bad movie made by animal activists!<br><br>I'll be here all week, but please, don't try the veal.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[strider_mt2k]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jul 31st 2006 1:33PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Japanese supercomputer breaks the petaflop barrier]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/31/japanese-supercomputer-breaks-the-petaflop-barrier/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/31/japanese-supercomputer-breaks-the-petaflop-barrier/</guid><description><![CDATA[Volsfan- it can render a multi-layered image in Photoshop in just nanoseconds, but it still takes 30s for the program to load and show you the credits.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[teo]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jul 31st 2006 1:44PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Japanese supercomputer breaks the petaflop barrier]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/31/japanese-supercomputer-breaks-the-petaflop-barrier/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/31/japanese-supercomputer-breaks-the-petaflop-barrier/</guid><description><![CDATA[Was it sad that DooM was the first thing that came to my mind?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Loque]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jul 31st 2006 2:02PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Japanese supercomputer breaks the petaflop barrier]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/31/japanese-supercomputer-breaks-the-petaflop-barrier/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/31/japanese-supercomputer-breaks-the-petaflop-barrier/</guid><description><![CDATA[This is not a computer.  Think of it as a HUGE ASIC.  For specialized research this is definitely the way to go.  Don't, however think your are going to run SETI@Home during downtime with this thing.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jul 31st 2006 2:18PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Japanese supercomputer breaks the petaflop barrier]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/31/japanese-supercomputer-breaks-the-petaflop-barrier/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/31/japanese-supercomputer-breaks-the-petaflop-barrier/</guid><description><![CDATA[I wonder if it meets the minimum requirements to run Vista.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[padieg]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jul 31st 2006 3:30PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Japanese supercomputer breaks the petaflop barrier]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/31/japanese-supercomputer-breaks-the-petaflop-barrier/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/31/japanese-supercomputer-breaks-the-petaflop-barrier/</guid><description><![CDATA[yeah but can it make toast?<br><br>if not, my toasters got 1up.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Eric]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jul 31st 2006 8:02PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Japanese supercomputer breaks the petaflop barrier]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/31/japanese-supercomputer-breaks-the-petaflop-barrier/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/31/japanese-supercomputer-breaks-the-petaflop-barrier/</guid><description><![CDATA[Everyone knows it doesn't count if it can't play Doom.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Juaquin]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jul 31st 2006 8:41PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Japanese supercomputer breaks the petaflop barrier]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/31/japanese-supercomputer-breaks-the-petaflop-barrier/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/31/japanese-supercomputer-breaks-the-petaflop-barrier/</guid><description><![CDATA[We are caught between special purpose and general purpose machines. Though MD-Grape can't run Top500 benchmark efficiently, it has achieved 1 petaflops computing power for MD calculations. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[sundar]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 1st 2006 2:43AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Japanese supercomputer breaks the petaflop barrier]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/31/japanese-supercomputer-breaks-the-petaflop-barrier/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/31/japanese-supercomputer-breaks-the-petaflop-barrier/</guid><description><![CDATA[It is really amazing how computer speed can grow these days. It seems infinite on how much we can push computing towards. <a href="http://keith.hostmatrix.org" rel="nofollow">http://keith.hostmatrix.org</a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Keith]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 1st 2006 5:19AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Japanese supercomputer breaks the petaflop barrier]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/31/japanese-supercomputer-breaks-the-petaflop-barrier/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/31/japanese-supercomputer-breaks-the-petaflop-barrier/</guid><description><![CDATA[by padieg<br>I wonder if it meets the minimum requirements to run Vista.<br><br>jajjajajjaa good one padieg]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Edwin]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 1st 2006 5:25AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Japanese supercomputer breaks the petaflop barrier]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/31/japanese-supercomputer-breaks-the-petaflop-barrier/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/31/japanese-supercomputer-breaks-the-petaflop-barrier/</guid><description><![CDATA[by padieg<br>I wonder if it meets the minimum requirements to run Vista.<br><br>jajjajajjaa good one padieg]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ed]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 1st 2006 5:25AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Japanese supercomputer breaks the petaflop barrier]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/31/japanese-supercomputer-breaks-the-petaflop-barrier/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/31/japanese-supercomputer-breaks-the-petaflop-barrier/</guid><description><![CDATA[how long does it take to boot up?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[CK]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 1st 2006 6:49AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Japanese supercomputer breaks the petaflop barrier]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/31/japanese-supercomputer-breaks-the-petaflop-barrier/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/31/japanese-supercomputer-breaks-the-petaflop-barrier/</guid><description><![CDATA["I wonder if it meets the minimum requirements to run Vista."<br><br>my friend, not even a machine built by Jesus himself out  of pure gold would have the requirements to run Vista.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dave]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 1st 2006 10:02AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Japanese supercomputer breaks the petaflop barrier]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/31/japanese-supercomputer-breaks-the-petaflop-barrier/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2006/07/31/japanese-supercomputer-breaks-the-petaflop-barrier/</guid><description><![CDATA[This is not a real supercomputer. And I think it can't even run Windows Vista or any other OS.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Slavcho]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sep 11th 2006 6:59PM</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
