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Apr. 20th, 2012 01:20 pmThe Pioneer Anomaly has been solved.
Unsurprisingly, it wasn't magic. But it still took them 30 years to prove.
Unsurprisingly, it wasn't magic. But it still took them 30 years to prove.
Apr. 20th, 2012
I love living in the future.
Apr. 20th, 2012 08:08 pmCycleCloud tears through twelve and a half machine-years of computing in 3 hours, delivering a 51,000 core computer with 59 TB of RAM... for $5000/hr in machine fees.
Admittedly, they pulled every spare machine in Amazon's EC2 cloud to do it, but *they did it*. Utility supercomputing, for a teeny fraction of the cost of building and maintaining a real supercomputer.
Admittedly, they pulled every spare machine in Amazon's EC2 cloud to do it, but *they did it*. Utility supercomputing, for a teeny fraction of the cost of building and maintaining a real supercomputer.
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