[ubuntu-uk] Top 500 Supercomputers

2008-06-19 Thread Michael Holloway
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! I just like reading the about the power these things have, and wish i could get that on my desktop PC! And you have to laugh... the most powerful computer in the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Top 500 Supercomputers

2008-06-19 Thread Tony Arnold
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

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Top 500 Supercomputers

2008-06-19 Thread Javad Ayaz
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!

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Top 500 Supercomputers

2008-06-19 Thread Andrew Oakley
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

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Top 500 Supercomputers

2008-06-19 Thread Philip Newborough
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 --