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____/ Jerry McBride on Friday 09 November 2007 23:10 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> Cray feeling super amid company turnaround
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>> | Supercomputers may appear to be an ethereal realm, but they are
>> | important bastions of futuristic research. They often portend new
>> | technologies.
>> |
>> | For example, the Linux operating system was embraced early on by the
>> | budget-constricted national laboratories, a signal to corporate IT
>> | managers that the free operating system was OK to use. Some techniques
>> | developed in massively parallel processing machines, where thousands of
>> | chips gang together to share computing of big scientific problems, were
>> | adapted in the development of multi-core chips for personal computers
>> | and network servers.
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http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/cray-feeling-super-amid-company/story.aspx?guid=%7B83BB04E1%2DF8BC%2D44A0%2D8CB2%2D62862B2C7071%7D&siteid=yhoof
>> http://tinyurl.com/2vf2jk
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>> Cray shows off new Linux supercomputers
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>> | Cray first introduced a Linux supercomputer called Red Storm back in
>> | 2004. However the announcement is significant, as it the first time that
>> | Cray has introduced a family of supercomputers rather than stand-alone
>> | machines.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/technology/hardware/mainframes-supercomputers/news/index.cfm?newsid=6085
>> http://tinyurl.com/2q4z8v
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>> Lots of headlines. GNU/Linux reigns in this space.
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>>
>> Related:
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>> Top 500 Supers: Moore's Law Is Alive and Well
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>> | There are two Windows-based clusters, and 42 machines that run a mix
>> | of operating systems--and one of those operating systems in the mix is
>> | always a Linux and the other is a variant of Unix. If you want to be
>> | fair, Linux is represented on 86 percent of the machines...
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>> http://www.itjungle.com/tlb/tlb071007-story02.html
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> You know... I've tinkered with a cluster here at home. I run openMosix in
> the past and now Mosix on a mish-mash of odd hardware and I gotta tell you,
> it's fantastic what can be done with a cluster of hardware and Linux. I'd
> love to be able to spend a bit of time on a REAL supercomputer, just to see
> what it's like.
>
> Something you'll never be able to do with windows...
This Cray product has apparently broken records and it's popular among hardware
enthusiasts. It's expensive though.
As for Windows, it's invisible in that area. With a Vista disaster and another
one on the way (Server 2008 will be no exception), the last thing Microsoft
worries about at the moment is HPC. Heck, WHS isn't much of an issue either
because despite being a useless, buggy and overpriced _storage unit_ (bad
reviews so far) it's not something Microsoft bets its life on, unlike back
room servers and desktops.
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~~ Best of wishes
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