[SLUG] Nasa supercomputer uses Linux

Gavin Baker gavbaker at acm.org
Sat Aug 7 01:02:17 BST 2004


jamie wrote:

>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3532706.stm#
>
>10,240 Intel Itanium 2 processors!!
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>
Yeah, but what graphics card does it have?

How many FPS does it get on doom 3 ?

How long does it take to compile openoffice.org or KDE?

How long to reencode a DVD?

They leave out the important stuff !!

ps, google's linux cluster is almost surely twice the size of that.

Gav






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