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Supercomputer maker Appro International has finally begun building the "Gordon" flash-heavy supercomputer at the San Diego Supercomputer Center, which was funded by a $20m grant from the National Science Foundation nearly two years ago. The machine is a testbed to analyze what happens when you get the I/O and floating point …

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  1. Arnold Lieberman
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    And we also have a partnership with Intel, which gives us a good price.

    Sounds all fair and above-board to me. Any idea who sponsored the PhD?

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  2. Captain DaFt
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    Why am I so childishly delighted that they made extensive use of flash drives in GORDON?

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    1. MrT
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      Eagerly awaiting news...

      ...announcing that the first job it does is to help save with a mighty hand every man every woman every child etc...

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    2. sisk
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      That was probably the whole point of calling it GORDON. It's a nice nod to classic sci-fi.

      Really I'm getting more milage out of the 'Bang for your x' headers in the article. Anyone else have images of cuncussion grenades go through their head at that one?

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  3. Anonymous Coward
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    Typo, I believe

    That should be the Lustre file system, not Luster. This time the word doesn't need Americanising for the reg ;)

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