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A Look Inside the NCSA

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the dave-you-like-your-ncsa-friends-better-than-me-don't-you dept.

Peter Kern writes "The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) is one of the great supercomputing facilities in the world and is home to 'Abe', one of the top 10 supercomputers on the current Top 500 list. TG Daily recently toured the facility and published a stunning report about their computing capabilities (more than 140 teraflops), power requirements (a sustained 1.7 megawatts), enormous 20-ft chillers in four cooling systems and other installations that keep the NCSA online."

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  1. Let's Get It Out of the Way by WED+Fan · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these.

    But, does it run Linux.

    In Soviet Russia NCSA Looks Inside of You.

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  2. Re:So close by WED+Fan · · Score: 1, Redundant

    You can run Vista, with most of the features turned off.

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  3. Re:Wow! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Probably almost good enough to run Vista.