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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. Guess.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    They need to host their site on one of 500 listed.

  2. Someone's gotta say it... by akadruid · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Looks like their webserver didn't make the top 500 list...

    Either that or there is an enterprising student thinking 'hmm, I know how I can get a higher score at this SET@home game'...

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  3. 7fold increase? by rylin · · Score: -1, Redundant

    so now there's 7 super computers based on the opteron?

  4. Jesus by Moblaster · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Imagine trying to close the pop-up windows on that thing. They got Opera for that?

  5. doom3 by Braingoo · · Score: -1, Redundant

    But will they play doom3?

  6. 3...2...1... /. by Nakkel · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Its safe to say that the site isnt hosted on any of those computers. Its already succumbing under the /. effect...

  7. One thing is for sure. by Supradog · · Score: -1, Redundant

    None of the top 500 is hosting top500.org.

    slooooow.

    (yeah yeah, computing power, not backbone)

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  8. Supercomputer running the website. by serviscope_minor · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Pitty they don't have one of the top500 running the website. It seems to be going rather slowly at the moment...

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  9. Benchmarking and being open by p0 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    This makes me wonder why Google is not on this list.

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