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Comments on: IBM opens supercomputer tools for ordinary rocket scientists

Ordinary Rocket Scientists? Are you MAD?* 

Posted Wednesday 6th August 2008 10:46 GMT

"IBM's vice president of deep computing Dave Turek said in a statement the stack was based on the company's experience keeping large-scale systems "running like clockwork". He said there's a need for software to manage larger systems, as more computing tasks migrate to "supercomputer-style clusters"."

On a very serious note, would that Management Software Need of Larger Systems be a Prime Candidate for a House of Orange/Orangerie Feed with a Gallic Teutonic Twist for Astute SuperSubAtomic NEUKlearer ProgramMIng?

* Ordinary like a Veyron? Rave On.

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Posted Thursday 7th August 2008 18:18 GMT

"Used to conduct sophisticated cause-and-affect studies on financial markets"

Guess they were "right-on-the-money" on that last call....

and the tin man said "If I only had a brain!"