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NASA To Get 10,240 Node Itanium 2 Linux Cluster

Posted by Hemos on from the building-it-better-safer-and-faster dept.

starwindsurfer writes "US space agency Nasa is to get a massive supercomputing boost to help get its shuttle missions back in action after the 2003 shuttle disaster. Project Columbia, a collaboration with two technology giants, will mean Nasa's computing power will be ramped up by 10 times to do complex simulations."

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  1. Re:What Would SCO's Take Be Worth? by geomon · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Sounds like the moderators are having a case of the Mondays?

    If you accept the notion that people are more prone to have a negative mood on a Monday than, say, a Friday when looking forward to a weekend, then yes they are having a case of Mondays.

    It would be interesting to look at moderations over the course of a week to see if moderators are more generous in their assement of a posts "worth" at weeks end rather than on Monday morning.

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  2. Re:DUPLICATE!!! by geomon · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I don't think so. I wrote a submission on August 4th titled "When Does It Make Sense To Quit?" about a software developer who has not made a significant change to their premire application in nearly 7 years. I thought it an appropriate topic for Ask Slashdot.

    It has been in the 'pending' bin for five days.

    Weird.

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  3. Wouldn't that generate by wiredog · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    a Beowulf cluster of 503's?

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  4. Re:Hey BSD trolls! by telemonster · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    IRIX > Linux.

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  5. Closer Scrutiny of Moderators by MooseByte · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "I hate this moderation system."

    I'd definitely like to see some closer scrutiny of the negative mods. Meta-moderating doesn't seem to be weeding enough of the bad ones out. The Moderator Guidelines make it clear to:

    "Concentrate more on promoting than on demoting. The real goal here is to find the juicy good stuff and let others read it. Do not promote personal agendas. Do not let your opinions factor in. Try to be impartial about this".

    A sizable minority of moderators are clearly ignoring that, if they ever even bother to read the guidelines at all. I think out of all my mod points, I've only ever assigned a negative mod once, maybe twice. There's really no need to most of the time, since even though I often strongly disagree with the poster, that's NOT what moderation is supposed to be about.

    Having said that, email CmdrTaco with any abuse. He says its rare he removes moderator access, but apparently it does happen.

  6. Re:MOD DOWN by DonkPunch · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    In soviet russia, posts filter out you.

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