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Top 500 Supercomputer List Released

Posted by Hemos on from the ibm-moves-ahead dept.

sundling writes "The heavily anticipated Top 500 Supercomputer list has been released. There is a Sevenfold increase in AMD Opteron processors on the list. Two sections of an IBM prototype took spots in the top 10 and the famous Apple cluster didn't make the list, because it was out of service for hardware upgrades. When complete, the new IBM cluster is sure to take the top spot from the Earth Simulator."

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  1. Yeah! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    This post was brought to you by f.i.r.s.t.p.o.s.t., the program to frist post automatically. On your screen soon.

  2. first post! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    fp!!

  3. THE GNAA WILL RIP OUT YOUR HEART by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    On behalf of hfis, proud member of the GNAA.

  4. Re:Why the fuss about Earth Simulator? by swiftstream · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    On the other hand, I bet the average time for a Japanese kid to calculate 42 (as in, 6 x 7) is much lower than an American kid...

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  5. OMFG WELCOM BACK TO TEH SLASHDOT WEBLOG!!!`1 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
  6. Predictions by Estanislao+Mart�nez · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    1. Somebody's going to write an "Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these!" comment. This will not really get modded up much

    2. Somebody's going to make an utterly offtopic and mildly racist joke about the dumb Indian IT workers who speak really bad English and take jobs away from smart geeks. This will of course shoot right up to (+5, Funny).

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  7. Re:hmmm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I for one welcome our new cliche hating overlords.

    P.S. It's me, the troll, just doing this so nobody else can. Just like self-derogatory joke can help immunise one about a real flaw, this immunises me against possibly the lamest comeback ever. I am strong and powerful and have a wizards hat -- don't mess with me you low IQ power cliche-trolls.

  8. Re:Why the fuss about Earth Simulator? by The+Original+Yama · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    humans anthropomorphize 'god' as an elderly grandparent with long white beard, etc.
    Don't you mean "Christians anthropomorphise 'god'..."?
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  9. Re:Why the fuss about Earth Simulator? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I can't stand it when Christians assume that everyone is (or should be) like themselves. Americans are well known for this too. It's just plain bigoted.

  10. Re:IBM's Blue Gene by zal · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Well, first of im not a native speaker, so im allowed some freedom with capitalization. And Second , i can't even get capitalization right in my native Language, so whatever.

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  11. Jesus Christ! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Enough with the Hitchhiker quotes already. They're getting as old as Monty Python quotes.

    Get some new material, guys. Cripes, you'll be doing Laugh-In material next.