Re[2]: but will it run windows?

But in all reality, who cares? It would be a logical assumption that it's running some sort of Unix variant or a totally custom OS.

Dick Goulet

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Author: Paul Drake <paled_at_home.com>
Date:       8/17/2001 10:28 AM

You guys are arguing over the wrong stuff.

The real question is -

"Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these ..." :)

Paul

Ray Stell wrote:
>
> InformationWeek_at_update.informationweek.com:
>
> ** The World's Fastest Computer (This Week)
>
> Scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in
> Livermore, Calif., held a coming-out party this week, but it
> wasn't for a debutante--it was to dedicate the world's fastest
> computer, a silicon belle named ASCI White. And this young lady
> knows how to cook. It works at speeds of 12.3 teraflops, or
> trillion floating operations per second--faster than the combined
> speed of the next three most powerful machines on earth.
>
> The $110 million IBM supercomputer consists of 8,192
> off-the-shelf IBM Power-3-II processors. It's got four terabytes
> of RAM and disk capacity of more than 160 terabytes, and it fills
> a computer room longer than two basketball courts. There's 49.3
> miles of cable connecting the nodes of the machine, and it
> requires enough power to cool 765 homes.
> ===============================================================
> Ray Stell stellr_at_vt.edu (540) 231-4109 KE4TJC 28^D
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