Linux Clusters Finally Break the TeraFLOP barrier

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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[ruckc]

Is that enough links there? Glad this isn't that impressive to me.

Fast enough?

[Lothar 0]

You would think they would be running their website on a server fast enough not to get /.-ed.

Here's the plan

[Ed Avis]

Step 1: Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these.

Step 2: ???

Step 3: Profit!

Slashdotted

[wario78]

Shame top500.org itself ain't running on a supercomputer...

OK, come on, I have to do it.

[Raffi Spock]

Imagine a Beowulf cluster of...

Oh, wait.