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m_mueller
14y ago
In terms of age this system isn't a dinosaur - the problem is the hardware architecture as stated in the article: Cell is now obsolete, noone wants to program new software for it anymore. X86 systems on the other hand, even older ones, can
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m_mueller
14y ago
Thanks. Not yet, but soon at http://typhooncomputing.com .
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m_mueller
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There's one thing you're forgetting here: Cell architecture. Noone writes software for that anymore, since it's been discontinued (either officially or inofficially). Most new supercomputers at that scale are powered by a mix of NVIDIA Tesl