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I'll have this one please.
Mon, 3 Apr 2006 13:23:25 +0100
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uker...
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Britain's most powerful super-fast computer, at a mere £52m
Anita...
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Bit large to have in your lounge or spare bedroom :)
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Frederick Williams...
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The text reads
"The new supercomputer could run at speeds of up to 100 teraflops and
will be able to carry out up to 100 trillion calculations every second,
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A flop is a floating point operation, I wonder what a calculation is.
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Frederick Williams...
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If Microsoft wrote an operating system for it, it would grind to a halt
in no time.
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Do you think it will fit in my front room?
sam...
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Garbage in - garbage out!
BTW how good is the weather forecast with you?
andon...
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I don't know Sam. Since they developed the
sea sick inducing map I have ignored BBC Weather.
I tend to just ask someone to get me an update
or look on Yahoo.
andon
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andon...
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I'll just have the money to pay the eleccy bill for running it :-)
BTW is the m/c that has wrecked the weather maps?
andon
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