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Submission + - Student and professor build budget supercomputer (calvin.edu)

Submitted by Luke
Luke writes: This past winter Calvin College professor Joel Adams and then Calvin senior Tim Brom built Microwulf, a portable supercomputer with 26.25 gigaflops peak performance, cost less than $2,500 to construct, becoming the most cost-efficient supercomputer anywhere that Adams knows of. "It's small enough to check on an airplane or fit next to a desk," said Brom. Instead of a bunch of researchers having to share a single Beowulf cluster supercomputer, now each researcher can have their own. What would you do with a personal supercomputer?

Comment Re:The US is falling behind? Give me a break. (Score 2, Informative) 1347

by Lariano (#13385151) Attached to: The Decline of Science and Technology in America
From the Wikipedia article on Stanford:
"The University has approximately 1,700 faculty members, including 17 Nobel laureates and 23 MacArthur fellows."

According to the article "Nobel Prize Laureates by Country" in Wikipedia, there have been 26 Nobel laureates from both Germany and Switzerland (granted, there is some overlap between the two). Sure, some of them are dead by now, but you write that "when any country in Europe has as many Nobel Lauriates as can be found at Stanford, [you]'ll start to worry," and make no requirements as to whether the country's laureates need still be alive.

So, better start worrying!

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