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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. yup by JimFromJersey · · Score: 0, Troll

    linux on the desktop ... it's a flop.

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  2. RETARDED MODERATORS by mhesseltine · · Score: 0, Troll

    WHO THE FUCK MODERATED THIS AS "INTERESTING"? DID YOU READ IT? -1 TROLL, -1 OFFTOPIC, -1 FLAMEBAIT

    Posting logged in, with bonus to point out the egregious nature of this posting

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  3. Re:Why Linux? by CoolVibe · · Score: 0, Troll
    That's an interesting piece of fiction. Guess I'm lucky I'm not a UNIX coder but more of a FreeBSD coder. :-)

    There's also a lot of stereotypical imagery in your story. Did you know that, yes, lots of people in the Open Source world are gay (Eric Allman is, Alan Turing is, to name but a few). Needless to say, without mr. Turing's efforts, you wouldn't be typing this story on this website. A little more respect for people's sexual preference please. I'm not homosexual, but many of my friends are. And sure, there might be some asshats around, but I can assure you they are in the minority.

    Are you sure this isn't just misdirected homophobia? Oh well, we will never find out, since you are an anonymous coward.

    (and no, Free/Net/OpenBSD and Linux are not UNIXen, and you desperately need a girl/boyfriend. Or a life. Maybe both)

  4. Re:Beowulf cluster jokes... by sql*kitten · · Score: 0, Troll

    I've never seen a "smart" compiler as you put it, though there are systems where the programmers can explicitely parallelize a loop.

    Oh, because you've never seen it, it can't exist? Great logic there, I hate to think what your code is like. See here and here and here.