Supercomputer capable of running entire Internet

Spend_day · 25 Feb 2008 at 11:32

hey did some searches and couldn't find this anywhere sorry if its a re-post

http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/IBM_to_construct_supercomputer_capable_of_running_entire_Internet

would this actually be any better than the system we have at the moment or is it just a cases of IBM wanting to say mines bigger then yours

Mat · 25 Feb 2008 at 11:33

Will it play Crysis with a decent frame rate?

mks2005 · 25 Feb 2008 at 11:34

Mat said:
Will it play Crysis with a decent frame rate?

Apparently it struggled in DX10 mode.

WotDa · 25 Feb 2008 at 11:34

Mat said:
Will it play Crysis with a decent frame rate?

No.

It will play Doom and blend though.

Hostile_18 · 25 Feb 2008 at 11:34

Judgment day is getting nearer.

Spend_day · 25 Feb 2008 at 11:37

Hostile17 said:
Judgment day is getting nearer.

come with me if you want to live

titchard · 25 Feb 2008 at 11:37

Wouldn't having the internet on one controlled machine really be silly due to the mesh architecture of the internet allowing downtime of some servers to be bypassed?

Also if one person hosts all of the internet, doesn't that mean that they get to say what goes onto it?

Rich

Cuchulain · 25 Feb 2008 at 11:39

titchard said:
Wouldn't having the internet on one controlled machine really be silly due to the mesh architecture of the internet allowing downtime of some servers to be bypassed?

Also if one person hosts all of the internet, doesn't that mean that they get to say what goes onto it?

Rich

Way to overanalyse.

Mat · 25 Feb 2008 at 11:40

titchard said:
Wouldn't having the internet on one controlled machine really be silly due to the mesh architecture of the internet allowing downtime of some servers to be bypassed?

Also if one person hosts all of the internet, doesn't that mean that they get to say what goes onto it?

Rich

And what happens if the cleaner accidently pulls out the wrong plug to plug in the hoover?! omg! catastrophy!

poopots · 25 Feb 2008 at 11:43

Kind of ironic since the foundations of the internet was based on having more than one single point of failure.

titchard · 25 Feb 2008 at 11:47

Cuchulain said:
Way to overanalyse.

Errrrr right.

Rich

NathanE · 25 Feb 2008 at 12:00

The very definition of the Internet is a web of interconnected computers. So having just one ... well ... it would no longer be the Internet.

Also a nuclear strike on the place where this supercomputer is would result in total outage of the whole "network". Whereas the Internet is resilient and traffic can take a different route.

titchard · 25 Feb 2008 at 12:02

NathanE said:
The very definition of the Internet is a web of interconnected computers. So having just one ... well ... it would no longer be the Internet.

Also a nuclear strike on the place where this supercomputer is would result in total outage of the whole "network". Whereas the Internet is resilient and traffic can take a different route.

Exactly - that is what I was getting at a few posts back.

Also would mean there is no free speech on the Internet as it would be controlled by one provider that could say yay or nay on what they wanted.

Rich

Hostile_18 · 25 Feb 2008 at 12:04

titchard said:
Exactly - that is what I was getting at a few posts back.

Also would mean there is no free speech on the Internet as it would be controlled by one provider that could say yay or nay on what they wanted.

Rich

Would also get rid of certain illegal areas of the Internet that everyone can do without.

Nix · 25 Feb 2008 at 12:06

Why would we want to put all our eggs in one basket, so to speak? It seems to be asking for trouble.

titchard · 25 Feb 2008 at 12:08

Hostile17 said:
Would also get rid of certain illegal areas of the Internet that everyone can do without.

True, but it could also run the way of Chinas' Internet where it is all filter to make everything seem awesome in China and the rest of the world is bad.

Rich

Hostile_18 · 25 Feb 2008 at 12:09

Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.

Don't know If I agree with the above!

Spend_day · 25 Feb 2008 at 12:10

Hostile17 said:
Would also get rid of certain illegal areas of the Internet that everyone can do without.

yes but say it is based in America would they allow anti American websites to still function or just remove them

or worse still if it was based in a Muslim country ........ NO PORNOGRAPHY :eek:

Hostile_18 · 25 Feb 2008 at 12:10

titchard said:
True, but it could also run the way of Chinas' Internet where it is all filter to make everything seem awesome in China and the rest of the world is bad.

Rich

If set up with a set of guiding principals and regulated by a neutral body it might work.

Vulcan · 25 Feb 2008 at 12:15

It says it's capable of hosting the entire Internet from the point of server load, but it's not going too, so I don't know why some of you are talking about nuclear strikes taking the Internet out.