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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. Look Out! by TWX · · Score: 4, Funny

    "SGI Altix 3000 is recognized as the first Linux cluster that scales up to 64 processors"

    SCO will be all over your ass now!

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    1. Re:Look Out! by monkey_jam · · Score: 4, Funny

      ..maybe you should learn to wipe better...

  2. Apple by zzzmarcus · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oh great... I can see Jobs wringing his hands already.

    "Now how am I going to make the G5's look faster than THIS?"

  3. Rocket Haid... by poptones · · Score: 4, Funny
    Now those obsessed geniuses have even more reason to forget to change the oil in their cars...

    (Inside joke for my ol' friends at ORNL...)

  4. lites by NetMagi · · Score: 3, Funny

    makes me just wanna turn off the lights and look at all those LED's blinkin!

  5. Obligatory: Mods on Crack! by panda · · Score: 5, Funny

    OK, so the moderators are on crack today. What's with all these obviously "funny" posts getting moderated as "insightful?"

    Guess it's time to meta-moderate!

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    1. Re:Obligatory: Mods on Crack! by darkov · · Score: 5, Funny

      OK, so the moderators are on crack today.

      Only today?

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  6. So... by Mipsalawishus · · Score: 3, Funny

    How hard would it be to /. one of these things??

  7. Conversion scale? by jackDuhRipper · · Score: 5, Funny

    What's that in bogomips?

  8. And just how did they accomplish this... by Kevinv · · Score: 4, Funny

    without SCO's help?

  9. Re:Hey, at least it's not running IRIX by platypus · · Score: 3, Funny

    I hated it, if it helps.

  10. I'm offering a Bounty to all posters by hellfire · · Score: 3, Funny

    $500 for the scalp of anyone who says the words "Beowulf" and "cluster" in the same post in response to this article.

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