So according to Moore's law I'll have this in a PDA by 2020, right?

@Luis: What's a PDA? =)

Notice: "2012:

So this is how the world ends...

Sorry.. It won't run Crysis, this is a PowerPC machine with nu GPUs. But the current Roadrunner will probably run Crysis at decent speeds.

...and then skynet became self aware.

So How do I rent 3d Studio Render time from these guys?
Will it play a nice game of Tic-Tac-Toe, Chess, or Terminal Nuclear War?

Due out in 2012?

Enlighten me!

I just read that it was due in 2011, maybe it's being delivered to the server site towards the end of 2011.

Are people out there actually trying to destroy the planet or what?

I'm looking forward to 2012.

2012?
apocalypse anyone?

Uh-oh, 2012, generic end of the world comment! 20 petaflops though? I should be able to accomplish cliche PC tasks! Oh wait, not a PC, Mac joke!

Wow. Cool screensavers I bet

SOMETHING LIKE THAT ONLY SCARES ME TO DEATH..WELCOME TO THE END OF THE WORLD.......

intel inside? **snicker***

Don't worry, just install windows Vista on it and it'll slow to a crawl...

And I bet they could have had it at half the price with the same performance if they chose PC parts. Or you know, even playstation 3s.

@LUIS ARANA: no, you won't have this in a pda by 2020, because Moore's law is no longer valid. We no longer double the number of transistors, now we double the number of cores :D

@melody people said that when computers took an entire building and did less than my cellphone.

@ CAF: not a mac anymore. Macs don't use PPC processors now, Apple switched to Intel.

@ AARON You're right, sorry. I have been invalidated.

well it runs simulations of nuclear explosions so they can plan to bomb everybody in 2012!!

Isn't 2012 the same year the Aztec calendar ends? Hmmm.

20 petaflops is nice and all, but can you have sex with it?

Nate yes you can have electrolyzing virtual sex with this every time u thrust a nuke goes off. Hot huu?

When can I get one?

And we all know the answer will be 42.

U.S. government ? Same one that caused the (GRD) great republican depression?

This is all good news, but what I wanna know is will it have Oregon Trail installed?

Sounds like the matrix main frame. as you can see there are no screens humans are modified to plug right in

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Wow, if in 2011 they make plans to build a supercomputer to simulate how to survive a nuclear holocaust, then I'll be really scared...

Why is it that when looking to the future, they decide to focus on bombs? Why not try to simulate things that will better our future?

@GENTLE PERSUADER
Yes, but then it'll produce the schematics to find the question. We all know where that will lead...

Of course you know what this is going bring don't you... ZOMBIES!! YAYYY

Come on. 1.6 million CPU's? who needs GPUs, it can emulate GPU functions. With this baby, you'll even be able to copy those super cool crysis physics videos you saw on youtube.

that image of the computer is clearly photoshopped.

heres some pics from the construction: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5737qtNpFc

So what kind of processors are we talking here. Think there pulling off the counter or something all bada$s for the processor?

honestly, 2012? I never understood why the internet community takes the mayans so much more seriously than other cultures/religions... I mean, they all have end-of-the-world predictions, too.

Or was it the Aztecs? Oh well, my point still stands...

well lets see what arnold the TERMINATOR do in Terminator 4, skynet or jihad 2012

August 29th, 2012. Sequoia becomes self aware. In a panic, the operators attempt to shut it down. Sequoia reacts and defends itself against its new enemy.

@ Bill, Nuclear bombs are a Fusion reaction. If we can find a way to control a Fusion reaction and harness the energy we will have infinite energy for forever, so yeah, studying exactly what happens would be good for the future

2012 is te end of the mayn long count calendar. and the final day is.

13.0.0.0.0 i thin k. 13!!
Bakers dozen. hmm.
how many 13 in 42?
fortytwo. you know. I think im gonna get a house with 42 rooms. yeah....

forty two.

Dave Bowman: Open the pod bay doors, HAL.
HAL: I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.

HAL: Dave, this conversation can serve no purpose anymore. Goodbye.

@kornmo

Nice Rick Roll!!!

Somebody please copy this thread and e-mail it to IBM! I think they should see how people react to this stuff. To some degree it is funny.

@ Debwis, actually you are more right than you know (taking a look at other races / religions / cultures for when they say the end is coming). Many of them come fairly close to the same general time period for when the party ends. IMHO, anything after year 2000 is borrowed time. Live with purpose, man. Your time may be shorter than you think! I just did some googling over end time prophesies -- the Bible is fairly explicit about what is coming, just a tad vague as to when, but there are decent hints to say that roughly 2000 years after Christ is about right. The fact that the Mayan's calander (the most exact one ever made and should not be underestimated) ends in 2012 for no appearant reason is a tad spooky. Toss in appearant similarities from the Eqyptians, Incans, and others and it just ups the tension.

With all the talk of the different ways that different groups (sometimes very unrelated groups) are expressing how the world is going to end, it appears that we are obsessed with getting of the ride - we at some level must want it to stop or there has been enough hints along the way that a real end is coming that we have subconsciously started bringing a self fullfilling prophesy to a head and are simply looking for the right combination to turn the lock or as some would say it is devine orchestration working out what was always a fairly dramatic end.

Want spookier? Look at this link about the "fictitious" IHC: http://www.instituteforhumancontinuity.org/

The partial fear / partial jokes about technology turning to bite us is interesting -- several news groups are following the subject (Fox, CNN, etc.). They ran a series on technology like the new robots who can make scientific discoveries and theorize on their own and the possibility of a "Terminator" rebellion: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,496309,00.html (to see who else is covering this google "terminator robot rebellion"). If you follow the links of related content on those sites it looks like the last 5 minutes of Battlestar Galactica where the technology is leading up to self awareness. If you were crazy enough to combine all those developments (self theorizing, military use, super computer capabilities), you may have a bigger problem than a solution. Seriously, follow the links. It is eye-opening.

I'd like to ask aquestion someone recently put before me - a question of logical, philosophical, and religious nature, but hopefully not an obnoxious one, about "the end"...
If one person believed in Jesus as a personal savior (because he believed that there was an afterlife with consequences and his faith was a solution) and another did not for what ever reason (because he believed that there really was no final consequence and therefore no need of a solution nor concern) and both died, surely one is right and one is not if that is the given contrast. Here is the question: If the non-believer is right, then there is no consequence for either of them. But if the believer is right, then he is safe and the non-believer is screwed. Is that right or even logical? Some one presented that to me the other day. What do you guys think about that?

No wonder people joke about this stuff. It is all rather heavy as a topic and no one wants to be taken too seriously on these subjects. Subjects that before they happen make you seem to be a nut if you spout off about them, yet ironically everyone here would not be a bit suprised if any of the above comments actually took place in the near future.

Ok, folks do you really want to know why the Mayan calendar ends in 2012?

Picture this, A Mayan master astrologer is talking to his apprentice. Its late Friday afternoon a few hundred years ago:
"Ok Quxxal, you've shown you know how to calculate the calendar, so we can work out the best times to plant, harvest, shag, beat up the neighbours and whack the local food source on the head for dinner. Now I've got a little job to keep you busy while I'm off fishing next week.
You see that blank wall over there? I want you to take some charcoal and mark it up so the stone masons can carve the calendar into it. Go as far as you can before I get back, and it better not end next Thursday, or I'll be using your happy-tackle for bait on my next fishing trip!"

Another Friday approx. 20 years later, the apprentice is now the master:
"Ok George I'm off fishing next week. While I'm away I want you to take some charcoal and copy that wall over there onto some bark. Our chief promised the chief of the tribe on the other side of the hill he'd send a copy over so they wouldn't have to walk all the way over here to see what day it is.
If you have any free time pick another name dude! That one just sounds silly. At least throw a few more consonants in there.."

And that ladies and gentlemen is how the calendar was created and spread throughout the Mayan civilisation…maybe…
B-D

2012... nuke simulation... wait, what?

Are they trying to tell us something here?

Nah....Without a GTX 295 It wont even boot Crysis Warhead :o)

Well with 1.6 petaflops of memory and 20 petaflops Cpu calculations it will propably need a GTX 2012 with 4.5 petaflops memory at 1.000.000.000.000.00 Bits to run Crysis Warhead :o) What will be the room temperature for that thing !!! -20 Celcius ? !!! I hope they use Thermalktake's Armor+ LCS cases !!! hahahahahahahaha

Dave. Dave. What are you doing Dave?

Mary had a little lamb, little lamb.....

Check out what the undergrads and graduates are doing at UT-Austin under the RLM Building... 3 stories underground. And, surrounded by 30 ft. re-enforced concrete slabs, running the tokamak.

The reason why scientists (and military) are doing SO many "nuke" simulations is... all stable stars are basically nuclear explosions. The trick is to be able to "contain" a nuclear explosion, so they Have to use these powerful supercomputers to run through all the possible resultants for exotic materials and containment systems that will eventually allow us to do so. And, once we can do that safely... we go to step two.

@ SeXReX: Wat? Fusion power is not related to fusions reactions used in bombs. It's a sustainable, controlled reaction that scientists and engineers are attempting to achieve, not a runaway reaction. It imitates the sun's own fusion processes, not a bomb's. The computer simulating nuclear explosions is pretty much only there so the US government can save money and lots of national and international hassle by not testing actual nuclear explosions.

Gay, really really gay!

I read that they got the date of 2012 wrong . The world won't end until 2220. So we have plenty of time to destroy the world the way we want to.

Sure, it will 'simulate' nuclear explosions. for now...

The world is ending by 2012, so who cares about a really fast computer. They need to come up with finding us a new planet to live on.

could you imagine how awesome it would be to use this thing to play world of warcraft? i wouldn't even have to touch a mouse or keyboard. i'd just have to think about doing something and its done several steps ahead. and pvp? forget about it. everything is dead within a 17 mile radius