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Enter the (Big) Dragon
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| It won't come as a surprise to readers of this
| blog that China's new supercomputer will be
| running Linux - over 80% of the world's big
| machines do. What's fascinating is that this
| is being built out of that home-grown Loongson
| chip - the one that Windows doesn't run on. As
| the same article explains...
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2010/01/enter-big-dragon.html
Recent:
China joins supercomputer elite
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| The IBM computer is owned by the Department
| of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory
| in New Mexico and was the first machine to
| push through the petaflop barrier.
|
| It is currently able to run at 1.042 petaflops and uses the powerful
| "cell" chip designed for the PlayStation 3.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8362825.stm
Linux rulz: Top500 says so
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| Todayâs release of the list of the top 500
| supercomputers shows that well over 90% are
| running Linux. Also, IBMâs Roadrunner has
| finally been dethroned; in a big way!
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http://www.itwire.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=29362&Itemid=53
Linux dominates top 500 supercomputer list
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| The latest Top 500 Supercomputer list is
| now out (see my colleague Andy Patrizio's
| story on InternetNews.com), with the top
| rig doubling its performance to 1.75
| petaflops.
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http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2009/11/linux-dominates-top-500-superc.html
PelicanHPC GNU Linux
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| 13 Nov 2009. version 1.9.3 is available
| here (thanks LinuxTracker). This fixes a
| security vulnerability, for more
| information, see
| http://wiki.debian.org/mmap_min_addr. Also
| has some new examples. Probably has a major
| showstopper bug, this is Friday the 13th,
| afterall.
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http://pareto.uab.es/mcreel/PelicanHPC/
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