Friday, August 27, 2010
Supercomputing on the coffee maker power diet
These students will try to build a supercomputer that runs on 26 amps. They are, from left, Bethany Barrientos, Phillip Verheyden, Vladimir Coxall, Loren Micheloni, Alex Heinzmann. Jason Kilman is not pictured
You’re going to blow a fuse if you get too many kitchen appliances going at the same time.
So you really don’t want to plug in a power hungry supercomputer between the toaster oven and the coffee maker. Your entire zip code – or more – could go dark.
But it
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