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China Building Linux-Based 10 Teraflop Supercomputer
securitas writes "CNet Asia reports that China is building a 2000-processor supercomputer based on the AMD Opteron 64-bit CPU. The new supercomputer will run a Chinese-designed Linux operating system. Based on current standings, the resulting 10-teraflop machine will make it the third most powerful supercomputer in the world. The Red Grid project is being built by Dawning Information Industry and China's National Research Centre for Intelligent Computing Systems. The Red Grid/Dawning 4000A is expected to be complete by June 2004. But China has competition - weighing in at 40 teraflops, the Cray Red Storm AMD-based 10,000-Opteron supercomputer built for Sandia National Labs will become the supercomputer heavyweight next year. More at Infoworld , InternetNews and Yahoo."
Seems it's a lot more complicated to build a network of 2000 boxes than it is to make a web page without broken img links (Link is from the c-net article)
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That's what the Three Gorges Dam was for all along. To cool this thing.
"Helping to opress 1/3rd of the earth population"
No. The new supercomputer will run a Linus-designed Linux operating system that has been heavily modified to suit the tastes of the Chinese.
You mean, it will hunt down all traces of free thought and dissent and ruthlessly stamp them out?
Hmm... how do you say "Skynet" in Chinese?
If China Syndrome is when the core of a nuclear plant gets so hot that it starts to melt through the earth's core, theoretically towards China...
What is it called when hundreds of AMD CPU's get equally hot and start to melt through the earth's core, theoretically towards the US?
Holy crap! That's about 6,666 flops per Chinese citizen!
;-)
fine, so they could save many pocket calculators...
No. The new supercomputer will run a Linus-designed Linux operating system...
Damn straight. And remeber its "Linus/Linux" not just "Linux". Give credit where its due.
I want to know when McBride is going to make a visit to China and is their any hope of them imprisoning his ass for trying to defraud the state?
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Ever notice how Slashdot stories often have far too many links? Since the front page doesn't get the little [slashot.org]-style URL warnings, I'm always afraid of being linked to a certain .cx site or a disturbing picture of a girl... spewing.... something... This article was pretty good, though. it didn't link to easy-to-find pages like Google, Yahoo, IBM, Microsoft, etc.
Oh well, Slashdot, you are my friend!
In one corner: Darl McBride, the SCO Group, and two dozen lawyers.
In the other corner: the People's Liberation Army.
Yeah, I'd pay to see that.
Maj. Kong
Shoot, a fella' could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff.
Does this make Linus a communist or a terrorist?
What are the odds China will release its modified GPL code to the rest of the world?
There's a lawsuit I'd love to see. Linus Torvalds/FSF vs. The People's Republic of China.
They consume heat? So they get colder and colder as they run?