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Top Computers 'to Fit Sugar Cube'

Posted November 12, 2010 7:38 AM

From BBC News - Technology:

A pioneering research effort could shrink the world's most powerful supercomputer processors to the size of a sugar cube, IBM scientists say. The approach will see many computer processors stacked on top of one another, cooling them with water flowing between each one.

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Re: Top Computers 'to Fit Sugar Cube'

11/12/2010 12:13 PM

"Will you take one lump or two"?

"Oh, I shall have two please. I will be modeling complex molecular interactions this afternoon."

And who says the cooling fluid has to be water? Can't it be tea?
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