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Other => Computer News => Topic started by: Quantos on June 28, 2009, 02:11:14 AM

Title: DARPA wants a new computer.
Post by: Quantos on June 28, 2009, 02:11:14 AM: If you can fit an IBM Roadrunner (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Roadrunner) into a 19" box, then you may have a new career.

The article can be found here. (http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/43073)
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Post by: macdad- on June 28, 2009, 12:48:59 PM: Thats pretty outlandish for now, perhaps in a few years.
Title: Re: DARPA wants a new computer.
Post by: Quantos on June 28, 2009, 01:12:25 PM: Imagine the documentary about it. "Honey, I Shrunk the Server..."

Actually when I first read the title I thought hmmm... ...I can fit a snake killing bird in a box...
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Post by: macdad- on June 28, 2009, 02:02:03 PM: Lol, good title.

But DARPA is kinda out of there mind if they want that much power in such
a small case...well atleast probably for a few years.
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Post by: Computer Hope Admin on July 06, 2009, 12:22:52 PM: I'm willing to bet that it'll be done within 5 years.
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Post by: patio on July 06, 2009, 07:17:35 PM: Ditto...
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Post by: Quantos on July 20, 2009, 04:36:46 PM: I give them 20 years. There are just too many variables.
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Post by: computeruler on July 24, 2009, 04:03:35 PM: I give them around 5-10. Just look at cpus. They are getting smaller and smaller all the time. They had 90nm, then went down to 65, and now they are at 45, and around the end of this year they are supposed to have around 32. But what are they going to do with that huge one when they make it into a 19in box?
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Post by: Quantos on July 24, 2009, 04:10:44 PM: I'm betting find something to cool it with :)
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Post by: computeruler on July 24, 2009, 04:14:58 PM: (http://hackedgadgets.com/wp-content/2/_huge_fan_cooled_case_mod.jpg)
something like that should keep it cool ;D
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Post by: Quantos on July 24, 2009, 04:16:13 PM: Just add a couple of wings and....
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Post by: computeruler on July 24, 2009, 04:17:32 PM: Better change the saying to
When computers fly
Title: Re: DARPA wants a new computer.
Post by: Quantos on July 24, 2009, 04:18:35 PM: Nah, I've seen them fly before. Of course they stick glide like a brick.
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Post by: macdad- on July 26, 2009, 04:16:11 PM: Looks more like an underwater ROV....
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Post by: Quantos on July 28, 2009, 05:34:18 PM: Yep, it just needs a couple of manipulator arms.
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Post by: BC_Programmer on July 28, 2009, 07:05:17 PM: perhaps a synthesizer. "WARNING! WARNING! my arms are flailing wildly!"
Title: Re: DARPA wants a new computer.
Post by: Quantos on July 28, 2009, 07:13:06 PM: DANGER WILL ROBINSON, DANGER.....
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Post by: Mulreay on July 28, 2009, 07:26:21 PM: Is there not an inherent problem with silicon chips though? I read somewhere that the gaps on the circuit can never be any less than 3 atoms wide as a rule because they would just short and be useless. If this is the case then your starting to get into the realms of bio-circuitry. I'm probably wrong I usually am.
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Post by: Quantos on July 28, 2009, 07:35:14 PM: There is the new carbon bubble. I wonder if that will affect computing.
Title: Re: DARPA wants a new computer.
Post by: Mulreay on July 28, 2009, 07:50:58 PM: Quote from: Quantos on July 28, 2009, 07:35:14 PM
There is the new carbon bubble. I wonder if that will affect computing.

I can't see it having a major impact. I think computers are near the bottom of a long list.