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Time-Lapse Video Shrinks Birth of a Supercomputer to 3 Minutes (wired.com)
1 point by davidmr on April 4, 2013 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


This brings a bit of a tear to the old eye. I worked on Mira's predecessor and a bit on the acquisition of Mira itself (literally rooms and rooms of Gantt charts, floor to ceiling, wall to wall), and it's very cool to see it get put in. A fine job was done by the Argonne staff to get this thing purchased and accepted.

My only correction is:

> Nowadays, these processors are no different from what you’d find in ordinary servers.

With this particular computer, that's not strictly true. These are special low-memory A2 PPC chips that, to the best of my knowledge, aren't in much else.




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