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/ >
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