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Terascale Computing System Installed

Posted by Hemos on from the more-power-then....something dept.

lysie writes The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, with Compaq and the NSF, has installed the Terascale Computing System. Worldwide, it's second in power only to ASCI White at Livermore. However, it's the most powerful system in the world for unclassified research--6 teraflops per second. 3,000 Compaq Alpha EV68 microprocessors, in 750 four-processor AlphaServer systems running Tru64 UNIX."

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  1. Re:Where's Linux? by warlock · · Score: 5, Informative

    Bah... why not Tru64, why Linux?

    Obviously you've never used Digital Unix, and you are not familiar with their kick ass, highly optimizing compilers... they ain't gonna build a cluster like that to run apache+mod_php and serve crap you know, it's all about number crunching.