Sun's new supercomputer and switch are bigger than yours
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| Sun has teamed with the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) in Austin to
| build the first "Constellation" system. The box dubbed "Ranger" is a Linux
| cluster with a peak performance in excess of 420 trillion floating point
| operations per second. The system is packed with 1.7PB of disk storage, and
| when finalized, will have 105TB of memory. The setup will take about 3
| megawatts of power to run.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06/26/sun_constellation_supercomputer/
They give Linux/Solaris choice. They'll need to compete with non-Sun hardware,
which might be hard. Big Blue has just set a possible record.
New IBM supercomputer achieves petaflop
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| IBM has devised a new Blue Gene supercomputer--the Blue Gene/P--that
| will be capable of processing more than 3 quadrillion operations a
| second, or 3 petaflops, a possible record.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9584_22-6193211.html
Related:
Top 500 Supercomputer Sites - November 2006
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| Operating system Family: Linux
| Count: 376
| Share %: 75.20%
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http://top500.org/lists/2006/11
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