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Latest Top 500 Supercomputer List Released

Posted by StoneLion on from the children-of-the-cray dept.

chrb writes "BBC News is reporting on the release of the June 2010 Top 500 Supercomputer list. Notable changes include a second Chinese supercomputer in the top ten. A graphical display enables viewing of the supercomputer list by speed, operating system, application, country, processor, and manufacturer."

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  1. June?! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Holy crap, the supercomputers are so fast they're in the future!

  2. Linux by B5_geek · · Score: 5, Informative

    Ya for Linux!

    Seriously, if this doesn't make every PHB take notice I can't imagine what would. (Hey boss, its free too!)

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    1. Re:Linux by Pharmboy · · Score: 5, Insightful

      All our admins and all of our users only know Microsoft systems. Training isn't free.

      So your users can't use Linux on the server? Or is it that all the users use super computers on the desktop? Our biz has all MS on the desktop and all Linux on the server. Obviously it is completely seamless. As for the admins, any admin worth their salt is always learning new things to just keep up with technology as it changes. Learning Linux by installing it on one system to start is trivial, and in certain situations, much easier to setup than Windows, such as DNS servers, web servers, etc.

      If your admins can only work on a server if it uses a mouse, you need new admins.

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  3. How about a direct link... by Jah-Wren+Ryel · · Score: 5, Informative

    How about a direct link to the actual site - or even the actual list?

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  4. Should Say "Top 500 Publicly-Acknowledged Supers" by cshbell · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The list should more accurately be called, "Top 500 publicly-acknowledged supercomputers." You can go right on thinking that the US NSA, British MI6, and even some private industries (AT&T?) don't have vastly larger supers that are not publicly disclosed.

  5. Food? What food? by hcpxvi · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Of the UK entries in this list, the first few are Hector (the national supercomputing facility), ECMWF, Universities, financial institutions etc. But there are also some labelled "Food industry". I wonder what I am eating that requires a supercomputer?