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

    Can it run Windows?

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

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

  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. 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.

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

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

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

    hear

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    tags?

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  12. 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!

  13. 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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  14. 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

  15. 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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  16. 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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