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| Building The MareNostrum COTS Supercomputer |
| from the available-at-every-pharmacy dept. |
| posted by timothy on Wednesday February 16, @03:40 (Hardware) |
| http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/02/16/0157239 |
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karvind writes "IBM Power Architecture Community Newsletter has a story
about [0]making a supercomputer (Number 4 on top 500 list) from easily
available components (like BladeCenter and TotalStorage servers, 970FX
PowerPC processors, and Linux 2.6). A joint venture between IBM and the
Spanish government, it is named MareNostrum: the Latin term meaning 'our
sea.' Peaking at 40 TFlops, the beast consists of 2,282 IBM eServer
BladeCenter JS20 blade servers housed in 163 BladeCenter chassis, 4,564
64-bit IBM PowerPC 970FX processors, and 140 TB of IBM TotalStorage
DS4100 storage servers."
Discuss this story at:
http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=05/02/16/0157239
Links:
0. http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/pa-nl3-marenostrum.html
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| Next-Gen X Window Rendering For Linux |
| from the future-looks-pretty dept. |
| posted by timothy on Wednesday February 16, @15:03 (X) |
| http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/02/16/1916250 |
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Bytal writes "[0]Seth Nickel, a GNOME hacker, has an [1]extensive
treatment of the next generation Linux graphics technologies being worked
on by Red Hat and others. For all those complaining about the current
X-Windows/X.org server capabilities, things like 'Indiana Jones buttons
that puff out smoothly animated clouds of smoke when you click on them,'
'Workspace switching effects so lavish they make Keynote jealous' and
even the mundane 'Hardware accelerated PDF viewers' may be interesting."
Discuss this story at:
http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=05/02/16/1916250
Links:
0. http://www.gnome.org/~seth/blog/
1. http://www.gnome.org/~seth/blog/xrendering
A. Mani
Member, Cal. Math. Soc
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