Ben Barrett wrote: > LOS ALAMOS, N.M., Sept. 23, 2002 -- Los Alamos National Laboratory has > selected Linux NetworX of Salt Lake City, Utah, to build, integrate and > deliver a 1,024-processor Linux cluster computer. > > Dubbed ?The Science Appliance? by the Laboratory?s researchers, the > cluster is a model for future supercomputing systems that will support > the Laboratory?s mission of stewardship of the nation?s nuclear weapons > stockpile. When delivered, the cluster is expected to be one of the five > fastest supercomputers in the world at 10 trillion operations per > second. > ...
10 trillion operations/second. The half life of U-235 is 703,800,000 years. Time for that machine to perform 2 * 10^29 operations. "Obie said he was just makin' sure." -- Bob Miller K<bob> kbobsoft software consulting http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Eug-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
