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Linux Clusters Finally Break the TeraFLOP barrier

Posted by michael on from the faster-kernel-compiles dept.

cworley submitted - several times - this well-linked submission about a slightly boring topic - fast computers. "Top500.org has just released its latest list of the world's fastest supercomputers (updated twice yearly). For the first time, Linux Beowulf clusters have joined the teraFLOP club, with six new clusters breaking the teraFLOP barrier. Two Linux clusters now rank in the Top 10: Lawrence Livermore's "MCR" (built by Linux NetworX ) ranks #5 achieving 5.694 teraFLOP/s, and Forecast Systems Laboratory's "Jet" (built by HPTi) ranks #8 reaching 3.337 TeraFLOP/s. Other Linux clusters surpassing the teraFLOP/s barrier include: LSU's "SuperMike" at #17 (from Atipa ), the University at Buffalo at #22 and Sandia National Lab at #32 (both from Dell ), an Itanium cluster for British Petroleum Houston at #42 (from HP ), and Argonne National Labs at #46 (from Linux NetworX ) reached just over the one teraFLOP/s mark with 361 processors. In the previous Top500 list compiled last June, the fastest Intel based Netfinity 1024 processor clusters from IBM were sub-teraFLOP/s and the University of Heidelberg's AMD based "HELICS" cluster (built by Megware ) held the top tux rank at #35 with 825 GFLOP/s."

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  1. FLOPs by FunkSoulBrother · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    could anyone point me to a windows based utility that allows me to see how many FLOPs my home computer is doing?

  2. Ah ha! by coryboehne · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    From the first line: cworley submitted - several times

    So, is THAT how you get something accepted? Really I don't know if posting that story with that attached to the front of it was such a great idea.....

    Now everyone who submits a story that they think is good, should it get rejected, they will simply submit like twenty copies of it....

    What a pain for the poor editors.... Really I question the wisdom of telling us this works....

    1. Re:Ah ha! by isorox · · Score: 1, Offtopic

      My 1 (one) story that got accepted to slashdot was accepted on my second posting - taco might ignore it, them timothy comes along and posts it. Or something. Most of the time it doesnt work though.

  3. Re:Just asking for it... by isorox · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Bring on the Beowulf Cluster jokes!

    But will there be more beowulf cluster jokes then links in the stories?

  4. Well, duh. by Oliver+Defacszio · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    "cworley submitted - several times - this well-linked submission"

    He probably went all crazy because Linux stories tend to get ignored here at Slashdot.

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