SGI & NASA Build World's Fastest Supercomputer

GarethSwan writes "SGI and NASA have just rolled-out the new world number one fastest supercomputer. Its performance test (LINPACK) result of 42.7 teraflops easily outclasses the previous mark set by Japan's Earth Simulator of 35.86 teraflops AND that set by IBM's new BlueGene/L experiment of 36.01 teraflops. What's even more awesome is that each of the 20 512-processor systems run a single Linux image, AND Columbia was installed in only 15 weeks. Imagine having your own 20-machine cluster?"

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so, where's the pr0n?

[isecore]

Am I the only one who get frustrated when companies/corporations/god/evil geniuses say that they're rolling out some really honking hardware, yet never shows all of us drooling geeks some really slick and sexy photos of it?

Man, that bites. I wanted some juicy photos of a Cray (or whatever hardware they're using)

(yes, this whole post is rather sarcastic. Go ahead and mod me down, see if I care)