The slashdot summary has the wrong numbers. The actual article which slashdot quotes is contradictory. Its starts by saying: "Tianhe-1A has set a new performance record of 2.507 petaflops, as measured by the Linpack benchmark, making it the fastest system in China and in the world today." and then one paragraph later it gives the same numbers as the slashdot summary.
Other articles (from other sites) are claiming theoretical peak performance of 4 Petaflops (from an Nvidia source) and sustained petaflops of 2.5.
For those of you looking to try out some of the editors Rob mentioned (namely Sam and ACME) - the most recent port of those applications to Linux/BSD/OSX is maintained at the plan 9 port page by Russ Cox - although it would be wise to read the papers before trying the executables.
There's also a recently reactivated project to bring Plan 9 filesystems and namespace concepts to Linux which is maintained over on Sourceforge.
Just hacked get_slashdot_news to produce HDML. It's available now for HDML browsers at www.csh.rit.edu/~airwick/s.hdml Thanks to leaf who helped me hack perl for the first time. Next project ideas are a Internet Drink Machine gateway or a Slashdot article gateway.
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The slashdot summary has the wrong numbers. The actual article which slashdot quotes is contradictory. Its starts by saying:
"Tianhe-1A has set a new performance record of 2.507 petaflops, as measured by the Linpack benchmark, making it the fastest system in China and in the world today."
and then one paragraph later it gives the same numbers as the slashdot summary.
Other articles (from other sites) are claiming theoretical peak performance of 4 Petaflops (from an Nvidia source) and sustained petaflops of 2.5.
For those of you looking to try out some of the editors Rob mentioned (namely Sam and ACME) - the most recent port of those applications to Linux/BSD/OSX is maintained at the plan 9 port page by Russ Cox - although it would be wise to read the papers before trying the executables.
There's also a recently reactivated project to bring Plan 9 filesystems and namespace concepts to Linux which is maintained over on Sourceforge.
Shouldn't Glenda (http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9dist/glenda.html) be an Angora rabbit (http://www.angorarabbit.com/)?
Just hacked get_slashdot_news to produce HDML. It's available now for HDML browsers at www.csh.rit.edu/~airwick/s.hdml Thanks to leaf who helped me hack perl for the first time. Next project ideas are a Internet Drink Machine gateway or a Slashdot article gateway.