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TACC's Ranger Supercomputer Turns Two
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| This month, the Ranger supercomputer at the
| Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC)
| celebrates two years of enabling
| groundbreaking computational science as a
| leading system for researchers in Texas and
| across the nation via the National Science
| Foundation's (NSF) TeraGrid initiative.
|
| [...]
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| Ranger is a Sun Constellation cluster
| composed of 15,744 quad-core AMD Opteron
| processors and runs the Linux operating
| system. "Ranger has changed people's
| perceptions of Linux clusters as
| supercomputers," said Tommy Minyard, a co-
| principal investigator on the project and
| director of Advanced Computing Systems at
| TACC. "They are now widely accepted as a
| large-scale computing technology."
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http://www.drdobbs.com/linux-open-source/223100859?cid=RSSfeed_DDJ_OpenSource
Recent:
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
Jaguar supercomputer races past Roadrunner in Top500
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| The most popular operating system is Linux,
| with 90 percent of the Top500.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10397627-92.html
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.
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| 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
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