Tag: SUPERCOMPUTER

digg_url = 'http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2010/01/20/china-plans-home-brew-champion-supercomputer/'; For the second time in just three years, China is planning to build a supercomputer using its own home-grown Loongson family of processors. Loongson processors were meant to be used in the Dawning 5000a supercomputer back in 2008, but as they lacked Windows compatibility they were ...

This comes to you out of the "alright, that's a little odd (but also cool)" category of computer news. Those infamous MAKERs at Maker Faire have done it once again. Using nothing but old computers, they managed to jerry-rig together a 31-node "super *cough* computer." Not special you say? Not Download Squad material you say? Well, I think we would all agree that saving our environment is important ...