Low Energy Supercomputing 159
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.