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Michael Dell at Supercomputing 2008 Huh?

Unleashing Human Capability 

The 4th wave of HPC

Michael touched on the ubiquitous nature of HPC.  He mentioned the CERN installation, claims it will need 20PF to duplicate human brain function.  It would cost $3.6B and would not match the power utilization of the Human brain.  Then he starts pandering to our ability to solve big problems.  We know that, thanks.  Points out Moore's law stuff.  Again, thanks.

1st wave  Specialized Microprocessors

2nd wave Microprocessor based parallel systems  (thinking machines) and started into a laptop sales pitch then the GPU sales pitch.

3rd wave Standard Clusters -- Says Dell is famous for this.. (really?)  Who knew it only started with Dell in 1999?  Huh.

4th wave:  High density, better management, lower energy, etc.  Now we are fully into a Dell product pitch.

Speeds, feeds, simple arithmetic.  Awesome.  

Claims they will be first to market with QDR IB.  Who's switches?

And now (at 9:30) the crowd is starting to walk out shaking their heads.  Shocking.

And then followed the first URL reference.  Excellent.

Reference to facebook.  Hmm.  Very questionable reference.  BP, at least they are doing HPC. 

I find myself unable to look away as the train wreck unfolds before my eyes.

 Now we have the reference to Hyperion.  Thank you Mark Sieger. 

 It is official,  we now have done worse than Bill Gates as a SC Keynote.

Posted at 07:37AM Nov 18, 2008 in Sun  |  Comments[0]