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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. It's easy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Just get a really really fast computer, and hope it doesn't turn into SkyNet and attempt to wipe out the human race.

  2. Hey, hey! Hey guys! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Imagine a beowulf cluster of... oh..

  3. Beowulf cluster! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Imagine a beowulf clusters of these !

  4. Imagine... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Imagine a bwoulf cluster of those!

    Oh wait...