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____/ nessuno on Tuesday 26 Jan 2010 14:20 : \____
> <Quote>
> Oh, and the previous record holder? That was a Linux supercomputer,
> the T2K Open Supercomputer, running Red Hat Linux. It set its record
> back in August 2009 and took only 29 hours. Keep in mind that the T2K
> was the 33rd fastest supercomputer in the world, with 640 nodes, each
> containing 4 2.3 GHz Opteron Quad Core CPUs. This gave it a peak
> processing power of 94.2 Tflops (trillion floating point operations
> per second) versus Bellard's single Core i7 with its peak processing
> power of 46.9 Gflops. In other words, in raw processing power, the
> supercomputer, according to Bellard, was "about 2,000 times faster
> than my computer." Thanks to his efficient coding, he actually
> calculated pi far more quickly than the raw speed numbers would have
> predicted.
>
> Any way you measure it, Bellard's new record for pi is impressive.
> It's also impressive that Linux, once more, has shown itself to be the
> operating system of choice for ultra-high-end computing, whether it's
> on a supercomputer or a single PC.
> </Quote>
>
> http://blogs.computerworld.com/15465/record_setting_linux
I love it when the WinTrolls/Microsoft Munchkins ("TEs") claim that
Windows is for "serious" work and Linux just for experimenting. In
reality, serious work like stock/market trading is done on Linux and
Windows is used by housewives to check Hotmail or whatever.
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