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North America's Fastest Linux Cluster Constructed

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the where-was-the-lightning dept.

SeanAhern writes "LinuxWorld reports that 'A Linux cluster deployed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and codenamed 'Thunder' yesterday delivered 19.94 teraflops of sustained performance, making it the most powerful computer in North America - and the second fastest on Earth.'" Thunder sports 4,096 Itanium 2 processors in 1,024 nodes, some big iron by any standard.

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  1. Imagine a ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    pineapple on a monkey.

    And you thought I was going to say something else...

    1. Re:Imagine a ... by JPriest · · Score: 5, Funny

      I see your pineapple monkey and raise you a rabbit with a pancake on its head. (cache)

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    2. Re:Imagine a ... by nocomment · · Score: 3, Funny

      Imagine SETI running on that!!!

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  2. I'd hate to be the guy... by krammit · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...who gets the electric bill.

    I cringe when I leave the A/C on for too long..

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  3. how fast is it? by chickenrob · · Score: 4, Funny

    Is it fast enough to run all the latest spyware, adware, and viruses and not slow down your solitaire game?

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    1. Re:how fast is it? by Man+in+Spandex · · Score: 1, Funny

      its linux only you insensitive clod!

    2. Re:how fast is it? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      i hear it will be able to run longhorn decently

  4. Awesome! by haxeh · · Score: 2, Funny

    That's amazing!

    Now we can... uhh... what are we supposed to do with that much power again?

    1. Re:Awesome! by MrRuslan · · Score: 5, Funny

      It's all for reserved for Doom III on longhorn.

    2. Re:Awesome! by GNUALMAFUERTE · · Score: 1, Funny

      There are only 3 things you can make with such a cluster:

      a) Play Duke Nukem Forever

      b) Install LongHorn

      c) Benchmark it and talk about the incredible performance you get using the aformentioned games :)

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  5. but but but by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Can it run Windows?

  6. Did hell freeze over? by SuperBanana · · Score: 4, Funny

    LLNL built a supercomputer, and it's going to do things besides simulate nuclear weapons?

    Quick, someone ring Satan and ask how the sno-cones are.

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  7. I don't care what anyone says by MrRuslan · · Score: 5, Funny

    this thing should do doom 3 with a software renderer at a very playable 47 FPS...

  8. Finally... by Fry-kun · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...I can back up my brain

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  9. Clarification by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    19.94 teraflops??

    Gimmy something I can grasp; what's this in BogoMips?

  10. 2nd fastest supercomputer by m1kesm1th · · Score: 5, Funny

    Also in completely unrelated news, Bill Gates announced the first fully installed test of Longhorn happened today.

  11. OK, here goes... by rco3 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Hey, with a Beowulf cluster of these, I can run Longhorn!

    OK, I'm done. Sorry. Mod away!

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  12. Rejoicing at Intel by Animats · · Score: 4, Funny

    "We sold the Inaniums! We sold the Inaniums!"

  13. Re:The way I see it... by twoslice · · Score: 3, Funny
    ever

    hear

    of

    Paragraph

    tags?

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  14. Heat by Rick+Zeman · · Score: 3, Funny

    4,096 Itanium 2 processors in 1,024 nodes

    So THAT'S what's causing our heat wave!

  15. Take that Apple! by callipygian-showsyst · · Score: 2, Funny

    Now you can't say you have the fastest "Thupercomputer" any more! You've been beat by Intel and Linux!

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  16. I really hope by Lord+Kano · · Score: 3, Funny

    that they didn't build this just to win 2 grand from distributed.net.

    LK

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  17. Re:Wow by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    These are not the nodes we are looking for...

  18. What about SCO? by watsondk · · Score: 4, Funny


    do they have the nerve to go after this cluster?

    afterall they are trying extortion by lawyer against other large Linux users

  19. Sadly... by System.out.println() · · Score: 5, Funny

    "We sold the Inaniums! We sold the Inaniums!"

    "The Itaniums, however, remain unsold."

    *hopes that was not an actual mistake but rather a poorly conceived pun on "inane"...*

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  20. Yes but... by goombah99 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Can it run WINE?

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  21. Big Iron? by nacturation · · Score: 4, Funny

    Thunder sports 4,096 Itanium 2 processors in 1,024 nodes, some big iron by any standard.

    If the government gets a hold of that, we're going to need some big tinfoil...

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  22. Re:Very great and all... by evilviper · · Score: 2, Funny
    I don't remember which operations are better on which, so you'll have to look that up (or someone will reply with the answer).

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  23. Wait a minute... by Golgafrinchan · · Score: 1, Funny

    I thought Deep Thought was the 2nd greatest computer in the Universe of Time and Space?

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  24. But... by Trejkaz · · Score: 2, Funny

    But Windows only has 50% less TCO if your time is worthless.

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  25. can't believe nobody mentioned favourite vendor! by nighty5 · · Score: 2, Funny

    $2,863,104 in license fees going SCO's way!

    I can see the investors now rubbing their 2 cents together....