[GreenKeys] Bletchley Park...

[Craig Sawyers]

> Actually, speaking as one of the troublemakers designing these
> supercomputers today...  it's not quite that bad.
>
> For example this system, for which I did much of the architecture,

That has me seriously impressed.

Having stood in the supercomputer hall at the Daresbury lab in the UK a year
or so ago, and had to shout over the roar of the aircon system that occupied
one long wall, it does leave a lasting impression of computing writ large.
Although, looking at the specs for that machine (HPCx - IBM based
http://www.cse.scitech.ac.uk/hpc/index.shtml) and the new UK facility
(HECTOR - CRAY based http://www.hector.ac.uk/), the NASA SGI machine is
vastly higher specced - by a factor of several in TeraFlops and storage.

My hat off sir.

Craig