Fastest US Supercomputer Runs Linux

jgercken writes "The Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has brought online a 11.8 teraflops supercomputer based on the Linux operating system, comprised of ~2,000 Itanium processors, and assembled by HP. Touted to be the fastest unclassified computer in the US, its main duties will be atmospheric chemistry, systems biology, catalysis and materials science."

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Re:Grid Computing and AI

[Creepy Crawler]

Well first, your site has that spark of a "I'm a Tesla Alien Abduction Genius Who Will Solve Everythin gWith Cold-Fusion" genius. That frankly make me seriously consider whether I should even click on the next link.

Then you have (DONATE HERE) banners that (NO HERE) make your site really (GIMMEE) hard to read. The more massive projects dont beg like that. If you cant/wont support it, that's what the GPL was for.

And lastly, the style presented reminds me of the magazine, OMNI. There's that feel of spoofery/hokey kind of "I'm code-God" that just makes me want to click that nice xkill on that window.

It may be a good project, but the presentation really sucks. Even the basic Black text on white with simple images looks cleaner/better than that.

Re:What about the classified ones?

[fgodfrey]

Well, I work for one of the companies that sells "classified" computers to the government. Typically, the sale itself isn't classified (especially since Cray is a public company) and sometimes, there's even a press release (that's one of ours from this spring). What "classified" usually means is that access to the system and the data on the system is classified. I don't have a security clearance, hence I can't look at, say, a crash dump from one of those sites. So, for your questions:

1) The NSA, Army, various other US and foreign government agencies.

2) Cray, SGI, IBM, HP (look at the Top 500 list for a good reference) and others. The Top 500 even lists a number of systems as "classified".

3) Uh, well, people *do* know about them.