Researcher Discusses iPod Supercomputer 108
schliz writes to mention that in a recent interview with ITNews researcher John Shalf explained the purpose and some of the technical details of the newly-announced "iPod supercomputer." "Microprocessors from portable electronics like iPods could yield low-cost, low-power supercomputers for specialized scientific applications, according to computer scientist John Shalf. Along with a research team from the US Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Shalf is designing a supercomputer based on low-power embedded microprocessors, which has the sole purpose of improving global climate change predictions."
Re:Oblig. misleading title (Score:5, Informative)
Re:It's about the bandwidth, not the MIPS (Score:3, Informative)
I do fairly-embarrassingly-parallel stochastic electronic structure simulations [wikipedia.org], and most of the time (except during set-up) I wouldn't care if the nodes were interconnected using dial-up modems. What matters in this case is having powerful and/or plentiful CPUs.
Riiight (Score:3, Informative)