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I think it would be more gangsta' if I call it the Petaflopsta instead. Is that okay? And god, that thing is a work of beauty. 
CorvusCamenarum said:
That is one heck of a computer.
If only its sole purpose was to run folding@home for team #3446!
I guess it's ok for email and surfing the web.....
Maybe do a little photo editing.
Just your typical grandmas PC.
Maybe do a little photo editing.
Just your typical grandmas PC.
"non-bonding interactions between atoms"
i wrote my grade 11 chemistry test today
what does this mean?
i wrote my grade 11 chemistry test today
what does this mean?
Mr_Brightside_@ said:
Things like coulomb and van Der Waals forces. They're interested in how proteins move and shape, and so they are interested in electromagnetic forces not of a sufficient intensity and short range to lead to a bond state change, but forces which act over a longer range and manipulate the shape and motion of the proteins. I think that's what's meant. Basically I think it means that you can make "weak field" approximations because you assume nothing gets so close or so intense as to cause bonding, and make some simplifications about the internal electromagnetic characteristics of the molecule....
But I think the more important question is...DOES IT MOO????
Counterfit said:
The only truly important thing to know.
I guess that it would do alright.....
mkrishnan said:But I think the more important question is...DOES IT MOO????
It makes a moo soooooo loud that you can hear it halfway around the world. In other words, it puts the MacBook to shame.
andym172 said:
No, I suppose that it could not even do that.
andym172 said:Pah! Piece of scrap
I know, is there anything that this thing can do besides playing solitaire?
Counterfit said:
Probably pretty rubbish. It specialises in numberical stimulations of molecules bouncing around interacting with each other, and not on ray tracing or other graphics work. It's not a general purpose computer.
More details at
www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=MDGRAPE-3+Protein+Explorer
Typically, it might have a smaller supercomputer used as the front end and to allocate resourses. The end user remotely logs onto that front end to load data and run stimulations, possibly through a black and white CLI. Systems like this often run on some flavour of Unix, and rarely have graphical interfaces as there are only a few users, who have all received decades of training...
A beowulf cluster of these, now that'd be something
xoxo ..RedTomato..
It doesn't moo, it screams!mkrishnan said:But I think the more important question is...DOES IT MOO????
Lets see you pick it up first.stylum said:
