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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. Re:Look Out! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Talk about beating a dead horse, SCO blasts are sooooo lame now. Please troll elsewhere.

  2. Re:O.R.N is not the only one by Trigun · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Ooh, those poor Palestinians...

    SARS is going to look like a field trip to the zoo :)

  3. Re:RETARDED MODERATORS by Carbonite · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I really should have known something was amiss after "Jizz Cola", but I kept reading. I even clicked the link to display the entire comment. It was horrible, possibly written by a geek descendent of Lovecraft. Excuse me now while I wash my brain out with soap...

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  4. Re:First one... by JudgeFurious · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    See this is all wrong. At this time it's modded "Troll" which is a travesty. It's +1 Funny damnit!

    No mod points, can't offset rectal moderator, sorry.

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  5. Re:hot grits! by karlandtanya · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    a-la Al Green?

    What'd Natalie Portman ever do to you?

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  6. Re:Imagine. by notque · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Imagine. (Score:-1, Insightful)

    Never seen that before.

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