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The Sound of Music?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Chocolat (it's entirely possible that only Brits will get this!)
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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PhilLenoir wrote: Chocolat (it's entirely possible that only Brits will get this!)
I dunno. Maybe a few others will p-p-pick up on it.
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I think there is something wrong with that article...
Supercomputers with around half a million cores have about 5000! Tflop/s not 16!
http://www.top500.org/lists/2014/06/[^]
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
תפסיק לספר לה' כמה הצרות שלך גדולות, תספר לצרות שלך כמה ה' גדול!
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Sweet, I saw stampede about 6 months ago at a wordpress conference of all things. I had no idea it was number 7 in the world.
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Journalists that think they understand numbers... 
16 quadrillion in the UK is 16E24 (thanks Google!)
16,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
Which would be 16 YottaFlops.
16 TeraFlops wouuld be
16,000,000,000,000
But this is journalism, so zeros don't mean anything, do they! 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I have to say quadrillion isn't a word I use often. But I can deduce from Wikipedia that we are therefore a 'long scale country' (quite right, unlike those small scale folk across the pond).
Which reminds me of billion, which is universally 1,000,000,000 these days, whereas the proper British billion in my childhood was 1,000,000,000,000. So maybe we're short after all.
Confusing stuff. I was only looking for the headline number of ops/sec, and it would appear the BBC are having difficulty reporting this correctly.
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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Nor I - hence the quick Google to see what it was!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I've found it's safer to use the correct word (milliard) when talking about US billions.
A few people might have to look it up the first time they see it, but it completely avoids any possible confusion.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: it completely avoids any possible confusion.
Not too sure about that: I confused it with Mallard, and just bought a lot of ducks...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Punchline of the Day
"And if they've got any ducks, buy a mallard."
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Ever the quack! 
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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Fun fact: in South Africa we use both scales: short for English and long for Afrikaans.
What is this talk of release? I do not release software. My software escapes leaving a bloody trail of designers and quality assurance people in its wake.
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OriginalGriff wrote: 16 quadrillion in the UK is 16E24 (thanks Google!)
16,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
Which would be 16 YottaFlops.
I am lost but that's a lotta flops!
Life is too shor
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I thought the met-office recently (within the last couple of years) just got a new super-computer.......
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Yes but this is a new super-super-computer!
(And I suspect it doesn't come with Windows 8 preinstalled)
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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DaveAuld wrote: I thought the met-office recently (within the last couple of years) just got a new super-computer
Yes, it should be working by Thursday afternoon.
Or it might be Friday morning or next Sunday night.
It did work for a while yesterday, which was a bit unexpected.
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Yeah, but can it run Crysis?
I'd rather be phishing!
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How about a nice game of chess?
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So, I'm back on deck after completing the 2014 Camp Quality esCarpade!! This year I raised almost $11000 for Camp Quality (a charity that brings hope and optimism to children living with cancer and their families).
The first day of the trip was exceptionally rough, with some massive un-marked ruts and potholes... several vehicles were damaged, including Booger Mobile. Thankfully I was able to get it back on the road (after putting it on a hoist for a wheel alignment and cursory safety check), then it was a few days of chasing an intermittent fault - turns out it was fuel related... lolsigh. We did make it to the end of the event - eventually.
If you want to see a gazillion pictures of the event, and read about the misery, happiness and fun, then check out the Booger Mobile blog (link in my signature).
So, what did I miss around here?
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_Damian S_ wrote: If you want to see a gazillion pictures of the event, and read about the misery, happiness and fun, then check out the Booger Mobile blog (link in my signature).
No we just want to know if you can park it better than JSOP[^]
(Good work though, I've been following the Booger Mobile since you started building it, one of my favourite blogs)
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Thanks!! There is quite a list of things to sort out before next year - mainly in the fuel department (additional filters/return lines/pumps etc).
I will also need to get it up on a hoist after a good clean and have it gone over with a fine-toothed comb to check for damage from the rut that the cursory check didn't find (it was getting a bit skatey on the way home)...
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