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More on Virginia Tech G5 Cluster: 17.6 Tflops
daveschroeder writes "BBC World's Click Online has a video report (with text transcript) on Virginia Tech's new 1100-node dual 2.0 GHz G5 Terascale Cluster. The report quotes the performance as 17.6 Tflops. As a point of reference, the cluster would be number 2 on the most recent June Top 500 list, behind only Japan's Earth Simulator, and considerably more than doubling the performance of the current number 3 1152-node dual 2.4 GHz Xeon MCR Linux cluster. Assuming the performance figure accurately reflects the LINPACK score (which it should; since the deadline for submissions for the upcoming list of Oct 1 has already passed, one would imagine VT would quote that figure), and depending on new entries for November's upcoming list, the cluster should almost certainly rank in the top 5 - all for only US$5.2 million. The video report is available in Windows Media 9 and Real formats; the relevant portion starts at 13:00."
Sir Haxalot is a karma whore troll. He is currently trying to gain Karma by posting google cache links in various articles all over slashdot so he can later use his karma-enhanced account to post trolls later on without worrying about killing his karma and having the added bonus of posting at +1 or +2 while doing it. :)
The sad thing is that when he posts links, he posts the same links that were in the article summary and violates copyright law by copying the article text verbatim. He even posts links to outdated Google Cache copies of the articles, even when the article links STILL WORK!
So moderators, I ask that you review his Posting History and see that what he does is nothing more than plagarism, trolling, and blatant karma whoring.
I'm honoured that you care about me enough to even post that, thankyou
I have over 70 freaks, do you?
A smart troll trolls you so that you've never realize you've been trolled and can certainly maintain excellent karma. It's the brute force trolls like memetrolls, gnaa and goatse-trolls who post at -1, but there's nothing wrong being a smart troll (not naming any names, though).
BOO! TERRO
Damn. No mod points. Excellent use of a troll post.
Quoting one paragraph out of context of the contract tells you jack squat.
The section could start off with "The following will not apply". Unlikely, but I've seen one contract that flipped negatives 3 times.
In most of the contracts I've seen, the key section would be the one on termination which outlines what survives and what doesn't. And the definitions section is usually pretty important too. Like the definition of SOFTWARE PRODUCT. I'd expect that to be the Unix source code that AT &T provided to them.
All this says is that they could terminate the contract.So, excuse me if I don't take the word of a public relations dude.
(No, IANAL, but I've had to deal with some of that stuff).
So does Anonymous Coward have good karma?
I would... But i have no mod points :)
Yea, great supercomputer and all...
Now we just have to work on that 650 MB ul limit in the dorms... and the whole 10 base connection thing... the whole Math Emporium thing... and the god damn instructors!!!
You would think that since they can afford this awesome spectacle of computing (and this is from a Mac hater), they'd be able to hire some teachers that can speak freaking English. Out of my 5 classes right now, only 3 instructors speak English as a first language(and two of those instructors are teaching 1 class). I've got Slawny for physics (think Milton from office space, except add a heavy russian accent, and mumbles even more), some indian TA for vector geometry (not bad english, but can't teach worth shit), and a chinese guy for Differential Equations (can't remember his name, but he talks so damn fast).
All that other crap... You would think a tech school would be more open to letting me run a couple (ok, lots) of servers. Or at least fragging at 100 base. And the Math Emporium, for those too lazy to click on the link, is one of the largest Mac labs in the world. Why does it suck you ask? Because a fair number have that crappy round ball mouse w/ 1 button, the rest have the crappy 1 button optical, the way they have OS X configured, when you load safari, the window size is about triple the resolution,
But yea, our football team ROCKS! As I recall, the lasf few games were landslide victories, to say the least.
I'll agree the analogy is not perfect, but the point is that there is are a lot of factors besides engine size or CPU frequency to consider.
.6 seconds faster from 0-60 means if both cars are stock, the Civic gets smoked.
Oh, and the Type R Civic displaces more (trivially) than the S2000, and is slower in both pickup and top speed. While they top out similarly, the
Civic Type R
displacement: 1998 cc
top speed : 146 mph
0 - 60 : 6.8 seconds
S2000
displacement: 1997 cc
top speed : 150 mph
0 - 60 : 6.2 seconds