[Wolves] Blue Gene/L IBM Super computer

Steve Parkes sparkes at westmids.biz
Sun Oct 30 21:35:15 GMT 2005


Mo Awkati wrote:
> 
> I saw tonight on the BBC web news that IBM'a super
> computer had doubled its own record. Guess what, no
> where it mentions this computer runs on Linux??? Very
> annoying.
>

yeah, cos it's just a bunch of apple powerbooks running linux linked 
together with bits of wire and chewing gum. ;-)

There's a lot more to building a supercomputer than picking an OS and 
bolting the off the shelf bits together.  It doesn't matter the article 
doesn't mention linux I thought we where after desktop users this year 
wasn't last year 'the year of the computer scientist'?

;-)

sparkes



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