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25th TOP500 List Released

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the winner-has-a-lottaflops dept.

Chris Vaughan writes "The 25th edition of the TOP500 list of the world's fastest supercomputers was released today (June 22, 2005) at the 20th International Supercomputing Conference (ISC2005) in Heidelberg Germany. The No. 1 position was again claimed by the previously mentioned BlueGene/L System. At present, IBM and Hewlett-Packard sell the bulk of systems at all performance levels of the TOP500. The U.S is clearly the leading consumer of HPC systems with 294 of the 500 systems installed there (up from 267 six months ago)."

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  1. Already! by SLASHAttitude · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    One person post a link and it is already slashdoted! Maybe they should try running there web server on something other then a toaster.

  2. LINK? by ebynum · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Where's the link?

  3. Deep Thought by Daxx_61 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I describe myself as the second greatest, and such I am...

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  4. I looked at one of the links by smooth+wombat · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    I chose the Arts and Entertainment section and scrolled down a bit until I saw a link about online games. Curiousity got me when I saw this in the description:

    Choices are presented as icons on the home page (no names, no explanations) but this only heightens the joy of discovery.

    So I clicked on the link and what did I see? A site which uses nothing but Flash! What a complete and utter waste of 5 seconds.

    Apparently Flash is the new blink tag.

    The site in question was orisinal.com in case anyone was wondering.

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    1. Re:I looked at one of the links by Ochu · · Score: 1, Offtopic

      And so, in being a flash nazi, you have caused yourself to miss out on one of the most entertaining and original websites for a while. Sure, flash is annoying for when HTML will do, but in this case, it won't.

  5. Re:Obvious Link? by pootypeople · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Hate your sig. Nothing like insulting those people who enabled you to do just about everything you do in your life to give you a bullshit ego boost. Insulting teachers is the lowest form of shit. I'm not a teacher myself, but both of my parents are. Teachers put up with this kind of shit all the time from people like you and they still choose to deal with your bratty children for little pay and don't complain when people say callous, bullshit stuff like that. Teachers have more required continuing education than lawyers and doctors, yet we still treat them as almost-professionals instead of professionals. You and your ilk are the problem with the American education system- it's kind of hard to want to bust your ass for a public that is openly contemptuous of your desire to serve them.
    Of course, if teachers had done a better job with you, perhaps you wouldn't be so ignorant.
    Those who can't teach, bitch about teachers.