The beast still only has the computing capacity of a mouse brain, Big Blue had the computing capacity of a Lizard brain. In 10 years they may have a computer that is equal to a human brain.

Who cares about nuclear simulation??? I wanna know how much it can be overclocked, and wanna see some important benchmarks!!! I bet it plays a mean game of solitaire!!!

Welcome to mission critical UPS's. Our mainframe has one giant farm of things to keep it online in a power outage.

Actually, power consumption is a pretty good question. I remember hearing about the new Sun Enterprise-class server that could take up to 1,000 70w processors. I'm just trying to imagine a UPS that can deliver 70+Kilowatts of constant draw, or even one that can handle the start up time for the generator farm... Sounds like a basement full of batteries to me.

All of that, while running SETI too...

This thing runs on DOS 5.0, right??? Damn that Microshaft monopoly!

Intel's PR dept. sent out a release today stating that their new mobile Pentium III processors utilizing Geyserville technology will be able to scale from an idle usage of 3 Watts to ASCI-White performance levels utilizing 1.2 MegaWatts.

Transmeta countered, stating that in the third quarter they expect to release their new Crusoe chip offering ASCI White performance utilizing only .5 Watts.