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Big Mac achieves around 14 TFlops with 128 Nodes

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the thats-a-lotta-flops dept.

mzs writes "The Virginia Tech G5 cluster has achieved around 80% of its peak performance in preliminary Linpack testing with 128 nodes according to Jack Dongarra at the Top 500. "They're getting about 80 percent of the theoretical peak," Dongarra said. "If it holds, and it's unclear if it will, it has the potential to be the world's second most powerful machine." Typically getting 60% of peak in the Top 500 lists is quite good. If the Big Mac cluster achieves 60% of peak it would displace the 2,300 2.4 GHz Xeon cluster at LLNL for the number three spot on the current list."

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  1. Cock is the ass killer FP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Bene Gesserit Litany Against Cock

    I must not suck cock

    Cock is the ass-killer

    Cock is the anal-invader that brings total goatse

    I will face the cock

    I will permit it to come in me and on me

    And when it has gone in my ass I will turn the inner eye and see its entry

    When the cock has gone there will be staining

    Only my ass will remain

    1. Re:Cock is the ass killer FP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Neither did fucking goatse but did that stop you? noooooo...

    2. Re:Cock is the ass killer FP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
      Who the hell modded this offtopic?

      This is an apple story, isn't it?

  2. slashdotting by returnoftheyeti · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    testing my webserver to see how well it does against slashdotting.

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    1. Re:slashdotting by herrvinny · · Score: 0, Offtopic

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    2. Re:slashdotting by jcrash · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      then learn how to post a link

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    3. Re:slashdotting by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      I'm wget -r'ing your site now.

      HTH ;-)

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  3. My sis needs a lesson by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    My 13-year old sister is a slut and really needs to be put in her place. She's sleeping around with some 15-18 year old assholes whenever our parents are away.

    I don't want her to end up in hell, so please help me. If you live in Sapulpa, Oklahoma, are approximately 13-25 years old and have a non-terminal, treatable STD like syphilies I'd like to introduce you to my sis.

    The point is that you have sex with her (ONCE!), give her an STD and scare the hell out of her so that she'll never even dream about having sex before she's 18.

  4. good god windows itunes is out! by minus_273 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    itunes for windows is out and /. wont accept my story! ugh! it a much bigger story here is the link a href=http://www.macrumors.com/events/musicevent200 3.html> story
    geez im just gonna hve to wait until they accpet someone else's story

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