| Science &Technology Call Sarah Conor now! Militairy Super Computer.; Dang this is one crazy, fast assed computer.
Kinda cool, kinda scary.
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Dang this is one crazy, fast assed computer.
Kinda cool, kinda scary. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/09/te...yt&oref=slogin Quote:
To put the performance of the machine in perspective, Thomas P. D’Agostino, the administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration, said that if all six billion people on earth used hand calculators and performed calculations 24 hours a day and seven days a week, it would take them 46 years to do what the Roadrunner can in one day.
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And it's probably one of hte few computers in the world that can run Crysis on Windows Vista. | |
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I love what it's intended to be used for: Quote: |
will be used principally to solve classified military problems to ensure that the nation’s stockpile of nuclear weapons will continue to work correctly as they age.
| To think that's what we calculate with our fastest super computers.
I like that it's helped by the gaming industry. Gaming will be a dominate force in global culture and technology in a few generations, once people figure out they can do anything in a game, and if designed right, it's fun doing it.
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More reasons to call Sarah Conor. I think I'll turn this into my creepy robot collection. Weird: New Video of BigDog Quadruped Robot Is So Stunning It's Spooky
Watching that thing slip on ice and catch itself is creepy. Now watch some rich guy make a million of them and put this on it with a real gun and let them all loose somewhere set on kill anything that moves. YouTube - Portable Autonomous Sentry demonstration | |
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Not much better than animatronics at Disney Land....
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so now we all get to wonder at our ability to know what the trillionth place of Pi is | |
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I for one welcome our inevitable robot overlords.
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Originally Posted by UtahBill  Not much better than animatronics at Disney Land.... | I was under the impression that animatronics are nothing more than supped up remote control puppets. | |
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