Student, Prof Build Budget Supercomputer
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| Microwulf has been measured to process 26.25 gigaflops, or 26.25 billion
| double-precision floating point instructions, per second
|
| [...]
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| In January of 2007, they began to piece together their system and by March,
| they were running tests to see just what Microwulf could do. In the end, the
| project came in under budget with Microwulf donning a price-tag of just
| $2470.
|
| [...]
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| Adams and Brom managed to build Microwulf so that it could plug into one
| standard 120V wall outlet. This feature only enhances the system’s
| portability, allowing it to be taken to classrooms and other research labs
| where large power supplies are unavailable.
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http://www.linuxelectrons.com/news/hardware/11561/student-prof-build-budget-supercomputer
More Linux power:
SGI Sets World Record for Oracle E-Business Suite Performance
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| SGI today announced verified test results that show SGI(R) Altix(R) to be the
| industry's fastest, most scalable Linux(R) system for real-world, multi-tier
| applications running Oracle Database 10g. In fact, SGI delivered the best and
| only "All Linux" benchmark result with a medium-sized Oracle Database 10g.
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http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/prnewswire/AQF90231082007-1.htm
Related:
Oracle Claims Bragging Rights Over Microsoft In Low-End Database
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| With low-priced hardware running the Linux operating system, which
| is free, Oracle beat Microsoft's SQL Server in price and performance,
| based on Microsoft's most recently published TPC-C benchmark.
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http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=199903273
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| Problems found in an audit of Diebold tabulation records from an Ohio
| November 2006 election raise questions about whether the database got
| corrupted during the tabulation of election results...
|
| The database is built from Microsoft's Jet database engine. The
| engine, according to Microsoft, is vulnerable to corruption when a lot
| of concurrent activity is happening with the database, such as what
| occurs on an election night...
|
| The report mentions that election staff had trouble with the server
| crashing and freezing on election night....
|
| The report notes that with punch card machines election officials used
| to be able to determine definitively if all ballots had been counted
| in the results....
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http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/04/diebold_vote_da.html
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