A couple of those, some giant heat sinks, and you have yourself some awesome high tech radiators. Save on your heating bill and do a huge number of calculations per second.

Posted at 1:43 pm on Nov 19th, 2008 by nemo

10,000+ watts saves on a heating bill? I doubt that.

Posted at 1:51 pm on Nov 19th, 2008 by BigD145

Maybe you could play Crysis at max settings

Posted at 2:02 pm on Nov 19th, 2008 by tbjr6

i’m sure that some point in the future, fabrication will become cheap enough that you’ll be able to replace that little portable electric fan heater’s element with an array of custom processors, busily computing folding@home calculations in order to provide you with warmth…

Posted at 2:14 pm on Nov 19th, 2008 by dan

I can macgyver a 100% efficiency heater with nothing but a clothespin a cup of warm piss, nemo, but the molecule would be slightly less than 100% efficient because of losses in the electromagnetic spectrum. I think SG is counting on the number-crunching power to make it worth the investment.

Also, that’s clever name they’re using, I hope they stick with that processor.

Posted at 2:20 pm on Nov 19th, 2008 by Solenoidclock

Just put it in a river of oil cooled by 4-5 auto rads with an industrial fan on each, that should do it.

Posted at 2:35 pm on Nov 19th, 2008 by Edward Nardella

or they can use the Uber Bong posted a few weeks ago! Btw my bong’s almost finished!

Posted at 2:42 pm on Nov 19th, 2008 by arthur92710

What would be great is converting as much of that heat back into some sort of useable energy, instead of dispersing it into the air and wasted… or using even more energy trying to cool the unit.

Posted at 3:48 pm on Nov 19th, 2008 by Prophetnoise

i think a waterproof bag and 800lbs of ln2 would be enough to cool it

Posted at 4:00 pm on Nov 19th, 2008 by infaredBurrito

Just put a sheet of metal on the top, toss on some burgers and you can open “Joe’s Render Farm and Grill”!

Posted at 4:57 pm on Nov 19th, 2008 by Hirudinea

its impossible….its…..OVER 9000!!!

Posted at 5:36 pm on Nov 19th, 2008 by KaD

Put a griddle on top of it.

McDondald’s could sell the proc time and cook their burgers for free.

Posted at 5:58 pm on Nov 19th, 2008 by Brtus

Too bad the linked article says it doesn’t actually exist, probably owing heavily to the heating problems. Then again, look, I just drew up a 20,000 core system using Q6600s and heavily drawing on 5th dimension! It’s about as relevant as this

Posted at 6:00 pm on Nov 19th, 2008 by Alcoholic

wow, i myself would have settled for, i don’t know 10 cores for my computer. imagine the electric bill for running this thing, and the cost for refrigeration of the room it is housed in, and just the cost of the damn thing. it is beautiful in its raw processing power. maybe they built it for vista, lol , just kidding. i think only custom Linux could manage that behemoth.

Posted at 6:05 pm on Nov 19th, 2008 by nick

@nick

Is that how many atom processors it takes to run vista decently? :)

Posted at 7:17 pm on Nov 19th, 2008 by Mike

Nice in concept, but the atom??? Enough of them together and you might have enough power to almost match an i7…maybe

Posted at 7:19 pm on Nov 19th, 2008 by Hatecrime69

@mike

yeah unfortunately, the atom is like a mouse. it clocks in at the fastest at 1.8GHZ. the whole concept is like having 10,000 mice pull a semi truck, yeah it could work…. but there is probably a better way to do it. but really it would take 3 atom processors to match my one athlonx2. even the old Pentium 4 beats the atom. but the atom did achieve one goal of the project, its cheap, real cheap.. $45 per processor. but at a guessed cost of 45,000 that defeats the purpose of cheap.

Posted at 8:04 pm on Nov 19th, 2008 by nick

Imagine a beowulf cluster of those…

Posted at 4:33 am on Nov 20th, 2008 by kenny

they should max out the cores with the max allowed ghz (3.6 ghz range). that way it would be 10,000×3.6 instead of 1.8. double the speed.

Posted at 9:56 pm on Jan 31st, 2009 by mike