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How to get 1.5 TeraFlops from Linux

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the squeeze-out-the-flops dept.

Oak Ridge National Lab has purchased from SGI an Altix 3000 (flash movie). This article claims that: SGI Altix 3000 is recognized as the first Linux cluster that scales up to 64 processors within each node and the first cluster ever to allow global shared memory access across nodes. There is more here, here, and here.

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  1. OMFG by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    First I thought linux was a total FLOP! And now your telling me its 1.5 Teraflops??? Wow, it really DID flop1

  2. Re:RETARDED MODERATORS by mhesseltine · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    What's funnier is that I get a -1 Flamebait for pointing out the fucked up moderation.

    Oh well. I have karma to burn. Bring it on bitches

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    Overrated / Underrated : Moderation :: Anonymous Coward : Posting
  3. beowulf cluster problem! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I've been sitting here at my freelance gig in front of a beowulf cluster of Mac 8600/300s w/64 Megs of RAM for about 20 minutes now while it attempts to copy a 17 Meg file from one folder on the hard drive to another folder. 20 minutes. At home, on my Pentium Pro 200 running NT 4, which by all standards should be a lot slower than this Mac, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.

    In addition, during this file transfer, Netscape will not work. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even BBEdit Lite is straining to keep up as I type this.

    I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while working on various Macs, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a Mac that has run faster than its Wintel counterpart, despite the Macs' faster chip architecture. My 486/66 with 8 megs of ram runs faster than this 300 mhz machine at times. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that the Macintosh is a superior machine.

    Mac addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a Mac over other faster, cheaper, more stable beowulf cluster systems.

  4. How to catch catfish... by karlandtanya · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    Hmmm.... Killing kittens, eh? Sure you're posting to the right forum?

    You should use SCUBA gear to catch catfish:

    See, all you do is jump in the lake, swim down to an old log, make a fist and stick your arm in.

    The catfish will clamp down on your hand (they don't have any teeth, you see) and never let go. Then you just swim to the surface, pop him in the head with a .22, and toss him in the boat.

    Try it and tell me how it works for you ;)

    Oh, yeah--don't shoot your hand.

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    "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, it doesn't go away." - Philip K. Dick
  5. Re:Yanking from my journal entry of 6/30/03 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    1. We're not in 2006
    2. There's not 30 months in a year

    Stupid region-specific dates... Learn to use ISO dates please (yyyy/mm/dd, ex: 2003-07-08)