[HLUG] I just saw the UK's fastest Linux super computer today :-)

[Richard Smedley]

Hi Julian,

On 18/06/12 22:51, Julian Robbins wrote:
> I went to an Open Day today at the Daresbury Laboratories up in Cheshire
> http://stfc.ac.uk/Our+Research/4471.aspx where they do lots of exciting
> work in particle physics and more. Interestingly, Linux was mentioned a
> couple of times during the various open day's demos. They showed us how
> they're using raspberry pi's as controller pc's for a simple project,
> running Lubuntu  as a lowcost controller system; to their super computers,
> one suite which is now the UK's fastest supercomputer (about 1.3 Pflops),
> (1.3 to power of 15 operations per second). It's the 13th fastest
> worldwide... All IBM stuff watercooled with about 500 separate computer
> units clustered to create a super computer. It supplies a lot of computing
> power to the northern Universities for simulations, and modelling and more

This sounds v cool, wish I'd known about the Open Day!

Next time you come up this way, let us know about it
and I'll buy you a pint :-)

  - Richard
    Cheshire LUG