Holy petaFLOPS! SA wins supercomputing crown again

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• Jun 26, 2014

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Holy petaFLOPS! South Africa wins supercomputing crown again

For the second year in a row, Team South Africa has won the International student supercomputing championships in Leipzig

 

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• Jun 26, 2014

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Big Ups to the boys and gals!

 

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AWESOME!!!!

 

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Well done!

 

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Must be something in the water over at CHPC
So proud of these youngsters!

 

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Well done lads! Great to see you guys perform so well. You are making us proud!

 

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Totally proud of these guys and gals!

 

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But can it run Crysis on Ultra Detail with everything on?

How many BitCoin can it mine in a day?

 

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Good to hear, and it is good to know that we still have it!

 

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• Jun 26, 2014

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Congrats

 

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Good job! Fantastic!!

 

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Great news

 

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• Jun 26, 2014

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Demographically not representative of SA...

Well done though.

 

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ponder said:

Demographically not representative of SA...

Well done though.

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Yep. It's amazing what people can do if they are chosen by aptitude...

 

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AstroTurf said:

Yep. It's amazing what people can do if they are chosen by aptitude...

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+1

 

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AstroTurf said:

Yep. It's amazing what people can do if they are chosen by aptitude...

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AstroTurf said:

Yep. It's amazing what people can do if they are chosen by aptitude...

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+10000

 

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• Jun 27, 2014

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WOW! Awesome news. Well done to the team! You've done South Africa proud.

 

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lcbxx said:

But can it run Crysis on Ultra Detail with everything on?

How many BitCoin can it mine in a day?

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You know, I was so tempted to do a bitcoin mining run on it when we had it! Don't think the sponsors would have liked that too much though haha