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 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.

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 o

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Top 500 Supercomputers

2008-06-19 Thread Tony Arnold
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. Ye

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Top 500 Supercomputers

2008-06-19 Thread Kris Douglas
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 proces

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 > >

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 o

[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