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(London Times)   Scientists finally figure out what's causing climate change: The giant supercomputer used to monitor climate change   (timesonline.co.uk) divider line
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Rusty Shackleford [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2009-01-19 6:57:00 PM  
Isn't this how Kirk convinced Nomad to destroy itself?
 
Weaver95
2009-01-19 7:02:03 PM  

Rusty Shackleford: Isn't this how Kirk convinced Nomad to destroy itself?


Nah, it's how the Cylons destroyed earth.
 
hogans
2009-01-19 7:13:14 PM  
Fry: What really killed the dinosaurs?
Huge Brain: ME!!!!
 
Procedural Texture
2009-01-19 7:15:41 PM  
Driving your stinking SUV around 80 miles per day, meanwhile, is your divine right as guaranteed in the Bibble™ and the Constimatushun™.
 
vicejay [TotalFark]
2009-01-19 7:27:15 PM  
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Lamune_Baba
2009-01-19 7:31:05 PM  
"The new supercomputer, which will become operational later this year, will emit 14,400 tonnes of CO2 a year," said Dave Britton, the Met Office's chief press officer. This is equivalent to the CO2 emitted by 2,400 homes - generating an average of six tonnes each a year."

Well, yeah... but you should see what it can do with Crysis!
 
Quasar665
2009-01-19 7:33:16 PM  
Pointless anyhow, all it told them was 42.
 
Bith Set Me Up
2009-01-19 7:42:00 PM  
How about a nice game of chess?
 
DigitalCoffee
2009-01-19 7:46:51 PM  
FTFA: When it is finally completed, around 2011 the Met Office machine will be the second most powerful machine in Britain with a total peak performance approaching 1 PetaFlop - equivalent to over 100,000 PCs and over 30 times more powerful than what is in place today.

But will it be able to run the next version of Windows without needing an upgrade?
 
SFDnozzlehead
2009-01-19 7:48:19 PM  

Quasar665: Pointless anyhow, all it told them was 42.


WIN
 
Fart_Machine
2009-01-19 7:48:45 PM  

Lamune_Baba: "The new supercomputer, which will become operational later this year, will emit 14,400 tonnes of CO2 a year," said Dave Britton, the Met Office's chief press officer. This is equivalent to the CO2 emitted by 2,400 homes - generating an average of six tonnes each a year."

Well, yeah... but you should see what it can do with Crysis!


But it still can't run GTA IV at a decent frame rate.
 
MrSteve007
2009-01-19 7:54:50 PM  
Spare BTUs from computers are great at heating buildings. More 'super computers' should be placed near or underneath facilities that could use their heat during colder months of the year, and then vent waste heat outside vs. using a air conditioning during the hotter months.

That's what I do.

As for the computer's electrical consumption 'carbon output,' place it near a hydro, or -shudder- a nuclear plant. There, no more carbon footprint.
 
blazemongr
2009-01-19 7:56:56 PM  
"The new supercomputer, which will become operational later this year, will emit 14,400 tonnes of CO2 a year," said Dave Britton

Emit? All by itself? I didn't know supercomputers contained their own power plants.

I mean, my desktop computer emits CO2 from the fan, but I'm pretty sure it's the same CO2 it sucked in from the other end.
 
blazemongr
2009-01-19 7:57:33 PM  

Quasar665: Pointless anyhow, all it told them was 42.


Fahrenheit or Celsius?
 
Brakefornobody
2009-01-19 7:59:38 PM  

Procedural Texture: Driving your stinking SUV around 80 miles per day, meanwhile, is your divine right as guaranteed in the Bibble™ and the Constimatushun™.


2/10.
 
Twonk
2009-01-19 8:04:58 PM  

blazemongr: Quasar665: Pointless anyhow, all it told them was 42.

Fahrenheit or Celsius?


First one, then the other.
 
Quasar665
2009-01-19 8:07:24 PM  

blazemongr: Quasar665: Pointless anyhow, all it told them was 42.

Fahrenheit or Celsius?

Both too inaccurate, definately Kelvin.
 
unlabeled meat
2009-01-19 8:14:14 PM  
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No fair! You changed the climate by measuring it!
 
Descartes
2009-01-19 8:15:45 PM  

Procedural Texture: Driving your stinking SUV around 80 miles per day, meanwhile, is your divine right as guaranteed in the Bibble™ and the Constimatushun™.


I planted a tree, so it's cool.
 
RaistlinsLegacy
2009-01-19 8:30:22 PM  
Giant Computer controlling weather?


Mother Brain? Climatrol?


Is that too obscure?


/one of the best games ever
 
maxheck
2009-01-19 8:34:31 PM  
MrSteve007:

Spare BTUs from computers are great at heating buildings. More 'super computers' should be placed near or underneath facilities that could use their heat during colder months of the year, and then vent waste heat outside vs. using a air conditioning during the hotter months.

I have two old 7U quad Xeons that I keep in my basement... I call them my space heaters.

They're actually kinda nice to rest your feet on on cold nights.
 
xuanzhiyouxuan
2009-01-19 8:42:52 PM  
Whoah, this proves that we're living in a simulation.

/dnrtfa
 
Quantum Apostrophe
2009-01-19 8:48:38 PM  

MrSteve007: Spare BTUs from computers are great at heating buildings. More 'super computers' should be placed near or underneath facilities that could use their heat during colder months of the year, and then vent waste heat outside vs. using a air conditioning during the hotter months.

That's what I do.

As for the computer's electrical consumption 'carbon output,' place it near a hydro, or -shudder- a nuclear plant. There, no more carbon footprint.


I believe this was also the case for Crays back in the 70s and CDCs in the 60s.
 
Likwit
2009-01-19 8:56:00 PM  

Procedural Texture: Driving your stinking SUV around 80 miles per day, meanwhile, is your divine right as guaranteed in the Bibble™ and the Constimatushun™.


What?
 
Dufus
2009-01-19 9:08:05 PM  
See - I told you if Al Gore would just stop talking the greenhouse gas levels would go back down.
 
Fark Me To Tears
2009-01-19 9:45:35 PM  
FTFA: "The new supercomputer, which will become operational later this year, will emit 14,400 tonnes of CO2 a year," said Dave Britton, the Met Office's chief press officer. This is equivalent to the CO2 emitted by 2,400 homes - generating an average of six tonnes each a year.

Holy crap!

All that just to download pr0n faster?
 
Terrified Asexual Forcemeat
2009-01-19 9:48:11 PM  
Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic)

WHARGARRBL
 
Hau Ruck
2009-01-19 10:05:52 PM  

Procedural Texture: Driving your stinking SUV around 80 miles per day, meanwhile, is your divine right as guaranteed in the Bibble™ and the Constimatushun™.


Didn't both of those declare cheap gas a divine right too?
 
mgshamster
2009-01-19 10:12:57 PM  

Descartes: Procedural Texture: Driving your stinking SUV around 80 miles per day, meanwhile, is your divine right as guaranteed in the Bibble™ and the Constimatushun™.

I planted a tree, so it's cool.


Win.
 
HansensDisease
2009-01-19 10:29:54 PM  
Hau Ruck: Didn't both of those declare cheap gas a divine right too?

That's in the Declaration of Exxon's-penis.
 
Lee Jackson Beauregard
2009-01-19 10:34:25 PM  
Hey, waitafugginminute, how can this supercomputer be causing climate change if there is no climate change? It's unpossible! AAAAAAALLLLLLL GOOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRRRRRRE!
 
Dinjiin [BareFark]
2009-01-19 11:07:01 PM  
The data center I work at has its own substation. The mainframes we use have power cables where each AC phase has a wire thicker than my thumb. Then we have the rows and rows of bladeservers.

I don't want to imagine the utility bill of that place.
 
KajakPro
2009-01-19 11:31:39 PM  

Dinjiin: The data center I work at has its own substation. The mainframes we use have power cables where each AC phase has a wire thicker than my thumb. Then we have the rows and rows of bladeservers.

I don't want to imagine the utility bill of that place.


True, but its also fair to say that the utility bill is cheaper than the amount of money that the workers would spend on girlfriends (if they had them).
/Computers are great foot warmers.
 
nicksteel
2009-01-19 11:45:58 PM  
if you're not part of the solution, you are part of the problem.

These dumbasses seem to be both. Except that there really isn't a problem.
 
Dinjiin [BareFark]
2009-01-20 12:13:26 AM  
KajakPro: the utility bill is cheaper than the amount of money that the workers would spend on girlfriends

Geeks have girlfriends?

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Hau Ruck
2009-01-20 12:19:28 AM  

HansensDisease:
That's in the Declaration of Exxon's-penis.


I found it in the Declaration of Chins too:

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/Hawt, you can't deny it.
 
ChiliBoots
2009-01-20 12:22:04 AM  

KajakPro: Dinjiin: The data center I work at has its own substation. The mainframes we use have power cables where each AC phase has a wire thicker than my thumb. Then we have the rows and rows of bladeservers.

I don't want to imagine the utility bill of that place.

True, but its also fair to say that the utility bill is cheaper than the amount of money that the workers would spend on girlfriends (if they had them).
/Computers are great foot warmers.


Hey ladies. You want cozy, warm feet? Get a CS degree.
 
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