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ASCI's Debutante Debut

Posted by Hemos on from the i-love-alliteration dept.

yoshi writes "Apparently, Lawrence Livermore Lab had an open house yesterday for ASCI White, the world's most powerful computer, and CNN has a story on it, including a picture of one of the sys admins! One of the great things about the system is how much information is available. Check out the hardware and software environments."

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  1. Re:Distributed Computing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Believe me, on systems like this, CPU cycles don't get wasted. Jobs are constantly queued up for any spare processor time. Just the cost of the power that White draws is too great to justify leaving it idle for any period of time.