__/ [ Mark Kent ] on Wednesday 13 December 2006 06:46 \__
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> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> Bull to Supply the Most Powerful Civil Supercomputer in France to the
>> CCRT, the Center for Research and Technology Computing
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>>| The system will be operated via an HPC platform specially optimized
>>| by Bull and featuring, notably: the Linux(R) operating system
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>> http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/76313/index.html
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> The world seems to be learning the google lesson - build yourself an
> enormous cluster, and then you can do anything.
They are being realistic.
World only needs seven computers
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| IBM founder Thomas J. Watson couldn't add up: it was seven
| computers the world would need, not five. That's the contrarian
| view of Sun chief technology officer Greg Papadopoulos. He thinks
| there will just seven hyperscale, pan-global broadband computing
| services giants.
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http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsID=7529
Sme insist on living in the past, cashing in on a dying generation of
technology (Microsoft and Novell share a pain here) while abolishing novelty
(disruptive technology). No wonder Microsoft managers hate Google with
passion. They unsuccessfully try to copy it, but realise that it conflicts
with the existing cash cows and then reach a flip-flop of mind. They want to
drop Live, but then again, looking into the future, they realise it's a
must. They must evolve, but looking ahead (Google), they are already well
behind. They have to bite their own limb, I think. Nobody like business
cannibalism.
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~~ Kind greetings and happy holidays!
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