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Fastest US Supercomputer Runs Linux

Posted by simoniker on from the vroom-vroom-vroom dept.

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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  1. Odd.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Did you know that *BSD is dying?

    Well, it is. And you can safely ignore the 10 *BSD users that say otherwise.

  2. Re:I wounder how fast by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    screw the kernel... ive been watching openoffice compile for something like 5 hours now... just so i can avoid rebooting to print a word doc i need in the morning.
    i need a beowulf cluster of itanic supercomputers for that, then i can REALLY profit.

  3. Re:What about the classified ones? by stoborrobots · · Score: 0, Troll
    as some AC pointed out below, you can have classified supercomputers that people know about...

    2 classified supercomputers in the US, dedicated to nuclear weapons research...

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  4. Re:In Soviet Russia... by Poeir · · Score: -1, Troll

    Yeah, but this thread's all about beating dead horses.

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  5. Re:Yes... - In Soviet Russia by MrBlint · · Score: -1, Troll

    Beowolf imagines clusters of you!

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    That's very perceptive of you Mr Stapleton and rather unexpected in a G Major