[ilugd] India's fastest academic supercomputer
Hi! Guyz, Found this in hindu today. http://www.hindu.com/2004/04/28/stories/2004042806051400.htm India's fastest academic computer - a `teraflop' Linux cluster - has been commissioned at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMSc), in Chennai - and come June, will vie for a ranking in the global ``Top 500'' list of the world's fastest supercomputers. [snip] Stringing together 144 separate computers, based on dual Intel-Xeon processor chips and running the Open Source Redhat 8.0 version of Linux, the researchers managed to clock up a peak computing speed of 1.382 teraflops (that is 1,382 billion calculations per second). The sustained performance, which is the basis of ranking, was 951.7 gigaflops or 951 billion floating point operations, using the internationally accepted benchmarking programme called Linpack. [snip] well, guyz read the above article to find the more about the fastest supercomputers in india. Can we beat atleast one of them. I am hoping to ;-) Regards VK = Disclamer The facts expressed here belong to everybody, the opinions to me. The distinction is yours to draw... __ Do you Yahoo!? Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/careermakeover ___ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
[ilugd] Hyper-Threading speeds Linux...
The current Linux symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) kernel at both the 2.4 and 2.5 versions was made aware of Hyper-Threading, and performance speed-up had been observed in multithreaded benchmarks... http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-htl/ http://www.2cpu.com/articles/41_1.html BR, GSS ___ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
[ilugd] Interview with the Mono cofounder
http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2004/04/28/interview_with_miguel_de_icaza_cofounder_of_gnome_ximian_and_mono.html [...] Q. What do you see as the greatest danger to the continuing adoption and progress of open source? A. Microsoft realises today that Linux is competing for some of the green pastures that it's been enjoying for so long; I think that Longhorn is a big attempt to take back what they owned before. Longhorn has kind of a scary technology called Avalon, which when compounded with another technology called XAML, it's fairly dangerous. And the reason is that they've made it so it's basically an HTML replacement. The advantage is it's probably as easy as writing HTML, so that means that anybody can produce this content with a text editor. It's basically an HTML Next Generation. A lot more widgets, a lot more flexibility, more richer experience - way, way richer experience. You get basically the native client experience with Web- like deployments. So you develop these extremely rich applications but they can be deployed as easily as the Web is. It's just like going to a URL: you go to Google, and you get the Web page and it works. So it's the same deployment model but the user interface interaction is just fantastic. Of course, the only drawback is that this new interaction is completely tied to .Net and WinFX. So we see that as a very big danger. A lot of people today cannot migrate to Linux or cannot migrate to Mozilla because a lot of their internal Web sites happen to use IE extensions. Now imagine a world where you can only use XAML. It's massive - I'm so scared. [...] -- Sandip Bhattacharya sandip (at) puroga.com Puroga Technologies Pvt. Ltd. Work: http://www.puroga.comHome: http://www.sandipb.net GPG: 51A4 6C57 4BC6 8C82 6A65 AE78 B1A1 2280 A129 0FF3 ___ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
