How To Build a Supercomputer In 24 Hours

An anonymous reader writes with a link to this "time lapse video of students and postdocs at the University of Zurich constructing the zBox4 supercomputer. The machine has a theoretical compute capacity of ~1% of the human brain and will be used for simulating the formation of stars, planets and galaxies." That rack has "3,072 2.2GHz Intel Xeon cores and over 12TB of RAM." Also notable: for once, several of the YouTube comments are worth reading for more details on the construction and specs.

Pretty sure

[Anonymous Coward]

that my old palm pre has more computing power than most human brains on this planet.

It's already done.

[edibobb]

Just use a bunch of AWS instances (or the equivalent cloud system) and enjoy your own supercomputer from the "privacy" of your own internet connection.

Re:quantum entanglement -- my brain to wind ?

[edibobb]

Why do you use 16th century English? Is this really how you speak, or did you run this through an obfuscator? What are tares, and what does "lest while ye" mean?

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Also notable:

[tbird81]

"for once, several of the YouTube comments are worth reading for more details on the construction and specs."

Yeah, unlike the impeccably high standard of comments you see on Slashdot. Mod me up if you hate Bieber!

OCZ Rebates

[DarwinSurvivor]

So who's job was it to mail in all the OCZ rebate forms?