On Sunday 05 November 2006 10:25, Mark Carlson wrote: > On 11/5/06, bogi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Here is a small smile from Linus . Just to get your minds of anything > > else that might be going on :-) > > http://yarchive.net/comp/linux/linux_speed.html > > > > Oh , and what about this one: > > > > " > > (July 7, 2003) - A supercomputer capable of 7.6 teraflops that's 7.6 > > trillion calculations per second has just been rated as the third > > fastest computer in the world: in fact it's a Linux cluster with 2,304 > > 2.4 GHz Dual Intel Xeon processors making it also the fastest computer > > on earth with Intel inside." > > The supercomputers on the current list are an entire order of > magnitude faster than the ones on the summer '03 list... but no word > on what OS any of them run.
I did some Linux training last fall in San Jose for the IBM folks who take care of Blue Gene/L which was clocking in at 280 teraflops running SuSE SLES 9 with a custom kernel. http://www.engadget.com/2005/10/28/ibms-blue-gene-l-worlds-fastest-supercomputer-at-280-6/ Don't know what the others are running though. > > > Anyone with a good idea what to do with a few teraflops laying about in a > > basement ?? > > I'd crunch some mersenne primes ( http://www.mersenne.org/ ) and try > win that $100,000 eff prize. Or maybe I'd like to play "global > thermonuclear war" :-P. > > -Mark > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
