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____/ Felis silvestris on Wednesday 05 May 2010 14:53 : \____
> On Onsdag 5. mai 2010 00.28, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> Inside NASA's world-class supercomputer center
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>> | That place is the advanced supercomputing
>> | facility at the Ames Research Center here,
>> | the home of Pleiades, NASA's flagship
>> | computer, a monster of a machine that, with
>> | a current rating of 973 teraflops--or 973
>> | trillion floating point operations per
>> | second--is today ranked the sixth-most
>> | powerful supercomputer on Earth.
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> http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-20003333-52.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
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>> Recent:
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>> NASA's Nebula cloud descends on Washington
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>> | Nebula runs Eucalyptus using Linux and the XEN
>> | and KVM open source hypervisors. It also makes
>> | use of MySQL and the open source RabbitMQ
>> | messaging system, used to communicate between
>> | virtual machines and to push information down
>> | to end user browsers, according to Rabbit
>> | Technologies CEO Alexis Richardson.
>> | Richardson's outfit was recently purchased by
>> | VMware's SpringSource division.
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>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/28/nebula_goes_to_goddard/
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> But as we all know, this is "not Serious Workâ" - ROFL
Exact opposite. UNIX and Linux are the only things considered for big projects,
even stock markets.
Microsoft hopes to change perception. Windows is still seen as the
"good enough for your kids" OS, not the scientific OS.
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