Hollywood versus Los Allamos: You cannot call your Teraflop computer 'Road runner'. They will have to change the name. Road runner is a caroon character owned by Time Warner.
mm, and I thought the 1 Teraflop would boost interest in that cartoon character, sort of free advertising.
Time-Warner will just invoke a little-known backdoor in the DMCA, and wind up owning the computer. (You think the Patriot Act is draconian, read the DMCA!)
However, their new cartoon series--featuring a super-computer being chased by a ravenous predator--will unexpectedly fizzle after a scene where the computer is dropped off a mesa, run over by a truck, then crushed by a falling boulder.
Unfortunately, the manufacturer (ACME Corporation) is notorious for producing dangerous and/or defective products. Best regards, Spehro Pefhany
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On a sunny day (Wed, 18 Jun 2008 08:53:42 -0700 (PDT)) it happened snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com wrote in :
So you do not believe me! Bad bad bad, but anyways:
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To translate the essential part: At the opening of the international super computer conference SC2008, professor Hans Meuer stated that IBM's legal department had let him know that the name 'Roadrunner' for the new number 1, the Peta flop cracker of the Los Alamos laboratory (LANL), cannot be used officially. It seem there is a name conflict with the Time Warner company, who has rights to a comic character (with acoustical signature of 'meep meep' (link) ), and runs the ISP service "Road Runner High Speed Online". In spite of that, the representative of LANL and IBM, Don Grice and Dr. White, were handed the winner award for their so called 'Roadrunner'.
IBM's legal department themselves decided that calling the computer Road Runner was not such a good idea.
Time-Warner made no legal threats.
It seemed a long shot anyway, since a google search on Road Runner gave a high-speed internet service, a sports team, a record label and a motorcycle touring magazine.
On a sunny day (Wed, 18 Jun 2008 20:12:24 +0100) it happened Dirk Bruere at NeoPax wrote in :
character,
Or the AMD GPU card: AMD breaks Teraflop limit In German:
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The Firestream 9250 GPU PCIe express card is likely based on the new RV770 GPU, as will be used in the Radeon 4800 series. The 1 Teraflop is for single precision, i tis 200Gflops for double precion 64 bit. The card uses 150W.
They already did... to Motorola, on the "RoadRunner" cable modems that were the first series of cable based Internet connectivity. Of course, they were for Time Warner cable systems.
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