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by jmtame 6384 days ago
The Blue Waters project (http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/BlueWaters/) is being done in the building across the street from me, I can see it right out the window from this CS room. It's one of those "off limits" things, although you really need to have a use for it first.
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siong1987 6384 days ago
Distributed computing will be the next huge thing. I can see it right through the window too.

Anyway, the BlueWaters project will be done by 2011. It will be the fastest computer then.

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markessien 6384 days ago
No, it won't be. There was a while when we had 200mhz computers. Then we moved to 2Ghz computers. Looking at all the innovations that happened within that time period, very few were due to the super computers getting faster.

Distributed computing just means computers getting faster. There is no killer app for this. Yes, you may say cancer research or flight simulations or so on, but there are not the next big things - not the way the web was.

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jdunck 6383 days ago
1000 core 2GHz machines for the desktop are 5 years out. Parallel is the way forward.
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