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/
