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Another Supercomputer

Started by gcs584 Nov 5, 2004 at 5:43 PM 6 replies 850+ views

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Nov 5, 2004 at 5:43 PM

Hi All, Someone earlier in the week had posted a link to a supercomputer that was being built in collaboration with NASA. Apparently there's another bad boy on the loose (although not as fast as of the current point in time). Seems quite interesting. Hopefully this hasn't been posted yet! Later, GCS584

lethalhamster

Nov 5, 2004 at 5:46 PM

Cool. What OS do they run on these super powerful super computers? A comtumized linux distro? Or do they have thier own OS?

gcs584

Nov 5, 2004 at 5:48 PM

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Original post by lethalhamster
Cool. What OS do they run on these super powerful super computers? A comtumized linux distro? Or do they have thier own OS?

MS Windows 3.1! jk

Nah, not sure.

GCS584

flangazor

Nov 5, 2004 at 7:55 PM

openMosix is of interest.

owl

Nov 5, 2004 at 8:36 PM

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Original post by flangazor
openMosix is of interest.

That's hot! Isn't?

rate++ for the linkage

jdhardy

Nov 5, 2004 at 9:12 PM

Blue Gene/L is actually faster than Columbia (so far; we'll find out for sure on the 9th when the Top 500 list is released). 71 TeraFLOPS > 52 TeraFLOPS.

The cool part about Blue Gene/L is not that it hit 71 TeraFLOPS, but that the part they tested is only a quarter of the actual machine, which has an estimated speed of 270 TeraFLOPS. Wow.

alnite

Nov 5, 2004 at 10:03 PM

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Original post by flangazor
openMosix is of interest.

flangazor roxor your boxor.

CrimsonSun

Nov 5, 2004 at 11:25 PM

It uses the newly unreleased windows os, Longhorn.

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