Low Energy Supercomputing 159
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samzenpus
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from the on-a-dime dept.
Faith Singer at TACC writes "The term 'supercomputing' usually evokes images of large, expensive computer systems that calculate unfathomable algorithms and run on enough energy to support a small city. Now, imagine a supercomputer, but run on the electrical equivalent of three standard-size coffee-makers. This year's international supercomputing conference, SC10, will feature the Student Cluster Competition that challenges students to build, maintain, and run the most-cutting edge, commercially available high-performance computing (HPC) architectures on just 26 amps."
Mmm... caffeine. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Give them Watts, not Amps. (Score:4, Funny)
Student Energy Units (Score:3, Funny)
This is a student project so the correct unit of energy is a "Library of Congress Stacked with Red Bull Instead of Books."
Now, you may convert that into Joules, if you care to.
Re:Amps = current, not energy.... (Score:1, Funny)
Next you'll say that I don't actually weigh 26 miles per hour or that I didn't do the Kessel Run in in less than 12 parsecs.
Re:Amps = current, not energy.... (Score:3, Funny)
Mine's always alternating...
Re:Amps = current, not energy.... (Score:3, Funny)
Resistance is futile.