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

[Julian Robbins]

On 19 June 2012 08:42, Richard Smedley <smedley358 at btinternet.com> wrote:

> Hi Julian,
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> On 18/06/12 22:51, Julian Robbins wrote:
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>> I went to an Open Day today at the Daresbury Laboratories up in Cheshire
>> http://stfc.ac.uk/Our+**Research/4471.aspx<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
>>
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> This sounds v cool, wish I'd known about the Open Day!
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I think it was stakeholders only. We done some work for Daresbury Labs for
a short while back

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> Next time you come up this way, let us know about it
> and I'll buy you a pint :-)
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Well certainly if there are any events well worth going ... I'll let you
know ..

Julian

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