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    Henry Minute
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    Supercomputers will soon be smaller than a sugar cube[^]. As is the way with these things the included image shows something the size of a '50s fridge. I'm still waiting for my personal rocket pack!:mad:

    Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”

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      Supercomputers will soon be smaller than a sugar cube[^]. As is the way with these things the included image shows something the size of a '50s fridge. I'm still waiting for my personal rocket pack!:mad:

      Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”

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      Mike Hankey
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      If they do the heat transfer intelligently the device could double as a pizza oven.

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        Supercomputers will soon be smaller than a sugar cube[^]. As is the way with these things the included image shows something the size of a '50s fridge. I'm still waiting for my personal rocket pack!:mad:

        Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”

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        Chris Losinger
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        research labs will just start stacking these little supercomputers together to form superdupercomputers. like they have always done.

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          Supercomputers will soon be smaller than a sugar cube[^]. As is the way with these things the included image shows something the size of a '50s fridge. I'm still waiting for my personal rocket pack!:mad:

          Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”

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          Back in the day, iPhones used to be the size of fridges. We already have "supercomputers" the size of sugar cubes. Only the definition of "supercomputers" keeps changing, and they will likely never fit into a sugar cube while they are still defined as supercomputers.

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            Supercomputers will soon be smaller than a sugar cube[^]. As is the way with these things the included image shows something the size of a '50s fridge. I'm still waiting for my personal rocket pack!:mad:

            Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”

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            Dr Walt Fair PE
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            They want to stack processors one on top of another, envisioning vast stacks, each separated by water cooling channels not much more than a hair's breadth in thickness.

            As an engineer, that makes me raise an eyebrow! How will they keep the channels open and ensure that no dust particle ever blocks them? The hair sized channels would also have to be short enough that the heat can transfer without flashing or reaching a stable temperature, because if there's no temperature difference, there's no heat transfer. Maybe it can be done, but I think they still have lots of work to do. Of course, we could always go back to using the wildly successful bubble memory ... :laugh:

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              They want to stack processors one on top of another, envisioning vast stacks, each separated by water cooling channels not much more than a hair's breadth in thickness.

              As an engineer, that makes me raise an eyebrow! How will they keep the channels open and ensure that no dust particle ever blocks them? The hair sized channels would also have to be short enough that the heat can transfer without flashing or reaching a stable temperature, because if there's no temperature difference, there's no heat transfer. Maybe it can be done, but I think they still have lots of work to do. Of course, we could always go back to using the wildly successful bubble memory ... :laugh:

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              Walt Fair, Jr., P. E. Comport Computing Specializing in Technical Engineering Software

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              That one burst.

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                That one burst.

                Join the cool kids - Come fold with us[^]

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                Dr Walt Fair PE
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                :laugh:

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                  Supercomputers will soon be smaller than a sugar cube[^]. As is the way with these things the included image shows something the size of a '50s fridge. I'm still waiting for my personal rocket pack!:mad:

                  Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”

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                  CalvinHobbies
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                  one rocket pack. http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/plush/e57e/

                  ///////////////// Groucho Marx Those are my principles, if you don't like them… I have others.

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                    Supercomputers will soon be smaller than a sugar cube[^]. As is the way with these things the included image shows something the size of a '50s fridge. I'm still waiting for my personal rocket pack!:mad:

                    Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”

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                    ripteq
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                    Rocket pack is just in test .... http://www.jetman.com

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                      Supercomputers will soon be smaller than a sugar cube[^]. As is the way with these things the included image shows something the size of a '50s fridge. I'm still waiting for my personal rocket pack!:mad:

                      Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”

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                      Henry Minute wrote:

                      I'm still waiting for my personal rocket pack!

                      It's the 80s (So Where's Our Rocket Packs)[^]

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                        Back in the day, iPhones used to be the size of fridges. We already have "supercomputers" the size of sugar cubes. Only the definition of "supercomputers" keeps changing, and they will likely never fit into a sugar cube while they are still defined as supercomputers.

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                        I agree with that! My HTC Aria is more than twice as powerful as my desktop was 10 years ago. And supercomputers will always be SUPERcomputers as long as there are normal computers around for us to compare them to. Cheers

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                          Supercomputers will soon be smaller than a sugar cube[^]. As is the way with these things the included image shows something the size of a '50s fridge. I'm still waiting for my personal rocket pack!:mad:

                          Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”

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                          R Erasmus
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                          What is a computer today without internet. How about superduper fast internet instead. Spend some money on that please. Our computers is only as fast as out internet. Over here in South Africa the internet really sucks badly and we get ripped off on top of that. We get charged per gig we download and have caps. $50 per gig... bloody rip off. How about superduper fast video cards instead for 3d graphics. There are many areas where they can improve on before making more superduper fast/small computers... get your priorities in order. :suss:

                          "Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence." << !please vote! >>

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                            Supercomputers will soon be smaller than a sugar cube[^]. As is the way with these things the included image shows something the size of a '50s fridge. I'm still waiting for my personal rocket pack!:mad:

                            Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”

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                            Stefan_Lang
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                            Hmmm, let's see - water goes in cold, comes out hot - so where does the hot water go? Sounds like a perfect setup for a supercomputer that can also make coffee! ;) Now if that isn't super, what is! :cool:

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                              Supercomputers will soon be smaller than a sugar cube[^]. As is the way with these things the included image shows something the size of a '50s fridge. I'm still waiting for my personal rocket pack!:mad:

                              Henry Minute Do not read medical books! You could die of a misprint. - Mark Twain Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.”

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                              H Brydon
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                              This is quite true. Just think, when somebody gives you one of those birthday cards that plays "Happy Birthday" when you open it up, you are holding more computing power in your hand than that which existed on the entire planet prior to 1950.

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