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OT: ILM\'s new computer systems
Just read an article on the new computer setup that ILM has installed at the Presidio. Apparently, this is now THE most powerful computer in the private sector. Here's the stats.
The main data center includes a 3,000-processor server farm, approximately 150TB of network-attached storage and a 10 Gigabit Ethernet backbone that may be the largest built by any company to date. It has some 340 10Gbit ports and supports traffic loads of 130TB per day. Power and cooling systems sit in two adjacent rooms, which helps to keep maintenance traffic out of the data center.
Impressive, most impressive . . . .
Hey Fyron, this is what you need of for SE.net! 
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October 4th, 2005, 01:51 PM
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Re: OT: ILM\'s new computer systems
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October 4th, 2005, 02:22 PM
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Re: OT: ILM\'s new computer systems
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October 4th, 2005, 02:22 PM
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Re: OT: ILM\'s new computer systems
I want it.
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Re: OT: ILM\'s new computer systems
Give it ten-fifteen years and we'll have it in our comps. Give it twenty-five and we'll have it in our phones.
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Re: OT: ILM\'s new computer systems
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October 4th, 2005, 04:05 PM
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Re: OT: ILM\'s new computer systems
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Give it ten-fifteen years and we'll have it in our comps. Give it twenty-five and we'll have it in our phones.
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Re: OT: ILM\'s new computer systems
I'd say those specs are reachable in 7-10 years for PCs.
Within 4-5 years pending a miniturization breakthrough.
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Re: OT: ILM\'s new computer systems
I wonder if by then, that Space Empires would be capable of modelling 3D laser-spectroscopic displays, or E-Ink rollable flatscreens, sporting advanced AI smart enough to learn from your hubris, and tactful enough to out-propagandize you in even a multiple human game, while convincing you that their trade offer is really comprising of their high end designs and not cheap gutted out ships.
By that time, real-time Google-mobile enabled wearable wrist devices will alert you to when your turn is ready, and when your preprogrammed away-ministers have completed their complicated tasks to the chargrin of the poor saps who have weaker ministers.
Accessing SEVII over PBW3 via your wrist pad, remotely transmitting its screen data wirelessly to your job's nearby e-ink rollable-screen mobile-enabled station on your desk as you complete complicated tasks using the wireless keyboard and wireless finger mouse rings to manipulate data on the screen, or on the 3D projection field on the lasertron.
Notcing your boss comming, you make a flick of the wrist to turn off the transmission, and the screens revert to your normal work displays - now THAT is the future of computing.
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October 4th, 2005, 05:20 PM
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Re: OT: ILM\'s new computer systems
VR holodeck, capable of creating any game you want out of a simple text description, which can be as simple as 'Chess game, standard rules'.
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