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$24.5 Million Linux Supercomputer
An anonymous reader wrote in to say "Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (US DOE) signed a $24.5 million dollar contract with HP for a Linux supercomputer. This will be one of the top ten fastest computers in the world. Some cool features: 8.3 Trillion Floating Point Operations per Second, 1.8 Terabytes of RAM, 170 Terabytes of disk, (including a 53 TB SAN), and 1400 Intel McKinley and Madison Processors. Nice quote: 'Today's announcement shows how HP has worked to help accelerate the shift from proprietary platforms to open architectures, which provide increased scalability, speed and functionality at a lower cost,' said Rich DeMillo, vice president and chief technology officer at HP.
Read Details of the announcement here or here."
... Cause if they put WinXP Pro on it, the project would cost:
$24,500,399.98
Which was juuust over budget!
BTW - Can you put in code during the "post slashdot story" to automatically close the <I> tags? I don't think that would be too difficult to add...
Good quote, too many chars. Seriously, the slashdot 120 char limit sucks!
all that capability and all I can think about is how much power the dang thing would consume... it'll take one big, big UPS/power conditioner.
I'd have a personalized plate on my car, but "toxic bachelor" won't fit into 7 letters.
Scheduled to be fully operational in early 2003...
Won't it be obsolete by then?
All I can say is:
"I have GOT to get me one of these!"
-- Will Smith, "Independence Day"
(42 Karma, don't mod me)
42 - So long and thanks for all the fish.
psxndc
The emacs religion: to be saved, control excess.
- AIX is dying.
- AmigaOS is dying.
- BSD is dying.
- BeOS is dying.
- CPM is dying.
- DOS is dying.
- FreeBSD is dying.
- GNU Hurd is dying.
- HP-UX is dying.
- IRIX is dying.
- Inferno is dying.
- Linux is dying.
- LynxOS is dying.
- MINIX is dying.
- MacOS is dying.
- Mach is dying.
- MicroC/OS is dying.
- NachOS is dying.
- NeXT is dying.
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- NetBSD is dying.
- NetWare is dying.
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- OS-9 is dying.
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- Oberon is dying.
- OpenBSD is dying.
- Palm OS is dying.
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- QNX is dying.
- RTEMS is dying.
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- SunOS is dying.
- TRON is dying.
- ThreadX is dying.
- TinyOS is dying.
- Unix is dying.
- VMS is dying.
- VxWorks is dying.
- Windows 2000 is dying.
- Windows 3.11 is dying.
- Windows 95 is dying.
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- Windows CE is dying.
- Windows ME is dying.
- Windows NT is dying.
- Windows XP is dying.
The Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing defines an operating system as: "The low-level software which handles the interface to peripheral hardware, schedules tasks, allocates storage, and presents a default interface to the user when no application program is running. The OS may be split into a kernel which is always present and various system programs which use facilities provided by the kernel to perform higher-level house-keeping tasks, often acting as servers in a client-server relationship. Some would include a graphical user interface and window system as part of the OS, others would not.The operating system loader, BIOS, or other firmware required at boot time or when installing the operating system would generally not be considered part of the operating system, though this distinction is unclear in the case of a rommable operating system such as RISC OS. The facilities an operating system provides and its general design philosophy exert an extremely strong influence on programming style and on the technical cultures that grow up around the machines on which it runs.
That answers my question of what I would have done if I won the Powerball last night
Get your Unix fortune now!
So does that mean it has 3.6 Terabytes of swap space?
My beliefs do not require that you agree with them.
1) 8.4 TFLOPS lets you find the sum of 4.2+4.2, 168 trillion times a second. .(+ all the MP3s you downloaded )
2) 170 TB can hold 42.5 thousand times the contents of the entire Library of Congress books
3) 1 TB of RAM may let you run as many as 13 Windows applications simultaneously.
Yah, because they need the horsepower to run solitaire...
pi=sigma{n:0-infinity}[(1/16)^n][(4/(8n+1))-(2/(8n +4))-(1/ (8n+5))-(1/(8n+6))]
"8.3 Trillion Floating Point Operations per Second, 1.8 Terabytes of RAM, 170 Terabytes of disk, (including a 53 TB SAN), and 1400 Intel McKinley and Madison Processors."
Microsoft finally release the baseline specifications for there next generation operating system...
"What do you mean you have no ice? Do you expect me to drink this coffee hot?" - Random Customer, Clerks
Let's see the story when they make one with 1,800 AMD processors!
Palo Alto, CA: In the news today, 26 researchers, who had been constructing a new super computer for the government running on 1,800 AMD processors, were killed today when they fired up the machine for a test run. Apparently, they had forgotten to turn on the water pumps for the computer's cooling system before starting up the computer. Thousands of megawatts of electricity were instantly turned into heat energy, resulting in a contained explosion that vaporized all the researchers instantly, and turned the building into a pile of melted plastic, metal, and concrete.
One local, who wishes to remain unknown, said when interviewed, "It was crazy! I mean, the whole building just melted. The heat waves coming out of the building were staggering, it was all I could do just to run into the nearest air-conditioned Starbucks and catch my breath."
The speed of time is one second per second.
My Mac G4 runs OS 9, y0!
A poor home-grown OS (no offence) called Cougar or TFlops which doesn't even support X11 or sockets.
Yeah, everybody knows any computer that can't support netris or even plain old tetris is poor indeed.
Shutting down free speech with violence isn't fighting fascism. It IS fascism!
"This will be one of the top ten fastest computers in the world."
Anyone else find it amusing that the link to the top 10 fastest computers in the world appears to be slashdotted?
Pib.
"NEVER, EVER feed your computer beer" - some
What about this one?
Named "LosLobos", the new supercomputer is scheduled to be fully operational by the summer
After getting stuck in an infinite loop playing "La Bamba", IBM Engineers smashed it into little bits.