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> On Jun 23, 10:12 am, Ed <ed-newsgro...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On 2011-06-22, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> > The Best & Fastest Computers are Linux Computers
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>> >| In the latest Top 500 Supercomputer list list,
>> >| which was released on June 20th, Linux accounts
>> >| for 91.00 % of the top supercomputers. Linux is
>> >| followed by Unix with 4.6%; and Windows with 1.2%.
>> >| When it comes to super-fast computers like supercomputers
>> >| or IBM Jeopardy winning Watson, Linux rules.
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>> >| Of the fastest of the fast, the top ten supercomputers
>> >| all run Linux. The top ten, lead by the K Computer at the
>> >| RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science (AICS)
>> >| in Kobe Japan, are all capable of performing more than 8
>> >| quadrillion calculations per second (petaflop/s) This
>> >| ranking is determined by how fast the computers can run
>> >| Linpack, âa benchmark application developed to solve a
>> >| dense system of linear equations.â The highest ranking
>> >| pure Windows supercomputer, the Magic Cube at Chinaâs
>> >| Shanghai Supercomputer Center, comes in at 40th.
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>> I'm very pleased to see you're back Roy.
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> No kidding. Where would I possibly have found this news otherwise?!?!
> Roy, we've missed your cut and paste news stories with absolutely no
> personal thoughts other than your changed headlines. I'm sure your
> unique news aggregation will really have an impact again. These trolls
> have been terrible lately. When you posted before there was absolutely
> no trolling whatsoever, so I look forward to a return to the glory
> days! You are probably the most important figure in the FOSS movement
> today, so I look forward to your reposts of news items I found
> elsewhere. Keep up the good work!
I'm not an "important figure in the FOSS movement". I do everything the FOSS
way (I have 3 jobs now), but I did not do much compared to loads
of other people. Then again, I'm in my 20s...
Glad to see you not siding with the trolls. And yes, I'll probably persist
with COLA for a while to come. I've always enjoyed it. Thanks for the
encouraging words.
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