Re: [ubuntu-uk] Top 500 Supercomputers
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 12:29 PM, Michael Holloway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And you have to laugh... the most powerful computer in the world is an > American nuke machine! What a surprise! > I believe its name is WOPR and it plays a mean game of Tic Tac Toe :P --- Philip -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Top 500 Supercomputers
Michael Holloway wrote: > Check this out, its quite interesting: www.top500.org > Of the top 500: 452 run on *nix based OS's, And a whopping 5 run the > other one! Gloucestershire Linux User Group - which meets just outside Cheltenham - is very well attended and frequently discusses the subject of parallel computing and supercomputing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheltenham#Major_employers Ahem. -- Andrew Oakley -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Top 500 Supercomputers
Kris, Kris Douglas wrote: > You hear quite a lot about these 'green companies' that are using > computers to both minimise impact and help prevent damage to the > environment, look at that machine, the power usage and cooling systems > must be contributing half of the worlds power usage haha. Yes, I wonder about the future of such machines from the environmental point of view. They don't exactly lend themselves to virtualization! Fortunately there are a relatively small number of such systems. Regards, Tony. -- Tony Arnold, IT Security Coordinator, University of Manchester, IT Services Division, Kilburn Building, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL. T: +44 (0)161 275 6093, F: +44 (0)870 136 1004, M: +44 (0)773 330 0039 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED], H: http://www.man.ac.uk/Tony.Arnold -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Top 500 Supercomputers
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 1:57 PM, Tony Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michael, > > Michael Holloway wrote: >> Check this out, its quite interesting: www.top500.org >> >> Of the top 500: 452 run on *nix based OS's, And a whopping 5 run the >> other one! > > Yeah! When you have hundreds of processors all talking to each other > over some high bandwidth interconnect, *nix is the only way to do it! > >> I just like reading the about the power these things have, and wish i >> could get that on my desktop PC! > > You should see the figures for the power consumed and the heat generated > by these beasts. You would not want it on a desktop! Besides there are > very few computational problems that can take advantage of such powerful > machines. You hear quite a lot about these 'green companies' that are using computers to both minimise impact and help prevent damage to the environment, look at that machine, the power usage and cooling systems must be contributing half of the worlds power usage haha. > >> And you have to laugh... the most powerful computer in the world is an >> American nuke machine! What a surprise! > > I believe they model nuclear explosions! It's better than testing the > real thing. Indeed! > > Regards, > Tony. -- Kris Douglas Softdel Limited Hosting Services Web: www.softdel.net Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Company No. 6135915 Registered in England -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Top 500 Supercomputers
yes but does it blend...(The computer that is,not the nuke) On 19/06/2008, Tony Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Michael, > > Michael Holloway wrote: > > Check this out, its quite interesting: www.top500.org > > > > Of the top 500: 452 run on *nix based OS's, And a whopping 5 run the > > other one! > > Yeah! When you have hundreds of processors all talking to each other > over some high bandwidth interconnect, *nix is the only way to do it! > > > I just like reading the about the power these things have, and wish i > > could get that on my desktop PC! > > You should see the figures for the power consumed and the heat generated > by these beasts. You would not want it on a desktop! Besides there are > very few computational problems that can take advantage of such powerful > machines. > > > And you have to laugh... the most powerful computer in the world is an > > American nuke machine! What a surprise! > > I believe they model nuclear explosions! It's better than testing the > real thing. > > Regards, > Tony. > -- > Tony Arnold, IT Security Coordinator, University of Manchester, > IT Services Division, Kilburn Building, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL. > T: +44 (0)161 275 6093, F: +44 (0)870 136 1004, M: +44 (0)773 330 0039 > E: [EMAIL PROTECTED], H: http://www.man.ac.uk/Tony.Arnold > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/ > -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Top 500 Supercomputers
Michael, Michael Holloway wrote: > Check this out, its quite interesting: www.top500.org > > Of the top 500: 452 run on *nix based OS's, And a whopping 5 run the > other one! Yeah! When you have hundreds of processors all talking to each other over some high bandwidth interconnect, *nix is the only way to do it! > I just like reading the about the power these things have, and wish i > could get that on my desktop PC! You should see the figures for the power consumed and the heat generated by these beasts. You would not want it on a desktop! Besides there are very few computational problems that can take advantage of such powerful machines. > And you have to laugh... the most powerful computer in the world is an > American nuke machine! What a surprise! I believe they model nuclear explosions! It's better than testing the real thing. Regards, Tony. -- Tony Arnold, IT Security Coordinator, University of Manchester, IT Services Division, Kilburn Building, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL. T: +44 (0)161 275 6093, F: +44 (0)870 136 1004, M: +44 (0)773 330 0039 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED], H: http://www.man.ac.uk/Tony.Arnold -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
