Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Mars Space Odyssey 2011: 10 Petaflops computer at the University of Illinois


We've got documents showing IBM going after a 10 petaflop system (peak) comprised of 38,900 eight-core Power7 chips with each chip running at 4.0GHz. This monster will have an astonishing 620TB of memory and 5PB/s of memory bandwidth. To be used at the University of Illinois by the year 2011.

SF writer Sir Arthur Clarke had a vision of HAL9000 Psycho badhardware supercomputer (No. 13th in Hollywood 100 years list of villains, by the way Count Dracula is only no. 33 at the same list) in his legendary novel Space Odyssey 2010.
Unnecessary to say, HAL9000 has been too designed and operated at the University of Illinios.

"I am a HAL 9000 computer. I became operational at the H.A.L. plant in Urbana, Illinois on the 12th of January 1992. My instructor was Mr. Langley, and he taught me to sing a song. If you'd like to hear it I can sing it for you. "
HAL, open the doors, please. !

Everything on Earthly bad hardware you can find free of charge at BADHARDWARE. However, human analogs for Clarke's higher mental supercomputer's malfunctions like in the legendary Odyssey 2001, you can find of course at the open the doors institution of closed type.
Let me remind you in th end that in those hippie years the very idea of possible terrorism threats still wasn't clearly exposed to broad, mainly cinema public)

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